Lynda - Painting with Particle Brushes in Painter - John Derry

Lynda - Painting with Particle Brushes in Painter - John Derry
[Voiceover]

I'm John Derry and in this course I will show you how to utilize these neat brushes
to create an ominous, sci-fi oriented scene. Along with the brushes, we will be using
a non-destructive workflow. This serves two purposes. First, it enables maximum flexibility
regarding your image. All aspects of the image can be adjusted after the fact, which brings
us to the second purpose. Layering provides a safety net that encourages experimentation.
Knowing that you can test a stroke out on the image before committing it opens you up to
many new possibilities.

Once you become accustomed to a non-destructive workflow you'll wonder how you ever got
along without it. By the end of this course you should be able to see that both the particle
and dynamic speckled brushes have far more to offer than simply creating digital spyrographs.

Particle and dynamic speckle brushes are new to Painter 2015 and 2016.
They allow artists to create sweeps of "particles" (speckles, lights, dust, etc.)
across the canvas with a single stroke. They are physics inspired, designed to mimic
real-world particles as well as the behavior of brushes with individual hairs.
In this course, John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter developers,
introduces the new brushes and shows how to control the size, shape, density,
and randomness of the effects.

You will learn what particles look like and how they are generated,
and how to use the brush controls, Opacity slider, Shape attributes,
and Color Variability and blending palette to influence the appearance
of your brushstrokes. John demonstrates all these concepts using a nondestructive,
layer-based workflow and a sci-fi-inspired painting of the night sky,
featuring the Milky Way.