There is a wide range when it comes to realism. As you can see, the painting is far from photo perfect and that was done consciously. Rémy’s Finished Studyīelow is the finished study of the adorable Rémy. This sort of thing always takes a bit of finessing, but it looked like it was going to work out well. I wasn’t interested in the painting bleeding off the right edge, so I decided to paint in some of the canvas color around the edges and then blend that into the rest of the painting with the knife tool. Since this is a study, I can leave areas unfinished but I still want the painting to “come together” in a finished fashion. With step 8 I’m in the home stretch but have some decisions to make that I hadn’t thought of when I started. I think I’m simply too impatient to mess around with all that stuff. I find multiple layers to be confusing while painting, but it has its uses and there are a lot of ArtRage artists out there that love using effects with layers. You can paint on separate layers in ArtRage, but I always paint in one layer using the alla prima (wet-on-wet) method. I like to keep the painting as close to what I would do on a real canvas as possible. Of course in a digital medium, you can always go in and use the erase tool if things get too milky, but I never do that. When painting a cat in ArtRage, I usually go a little darker because it’s much easier to lighten up dark areas than darken light areas with wet paint. By keeping the background neutral as well, it lessens the chance that the viewer’s eye would be drawn away from Rémy’s eyes.Īs I mentioned before, I’m continually going back in and establishing my dark areas. Since his overall coloring is light and neutral, I thought having a strong warm background color might steal attention away from the focal point. I decided to go with a dark neutral grey rather than follow the colors in the photo because I wanted all the focus of this study to be on Rémy’s eyes.
Rémy’s eyes have the slightest bit of a yellow tone complementing the blue toneĮyes can be intimidating, but if you break them down, they aren’t that hard. Tips For Painting Silver Objects is another tutorial that starts the drawing from the very beginning. Check out my tutorial on painting a step-by-step portrait in ArtRage if you’d like to see how to start a drawing from scratch on the iPad. Plus, there is a full desktop version as well as a less expensive “Lite” version of ArtRage to take your skills to the next level.įor Rémy’s portrait, I started with a loose sketch. It’s also the most intuitive digital program for painters that I’ve come across so far. I love practicing my skills in this program because I can paint anywhere on my iPad Pro, easily take screenshots of my progress to share on Instagram and don’t end up getting paint all over my clothes. If you’ve been on my studio site before, you know I’ve become a little obsessed with painting in ArtRage.
AND – once again – it’s a bare naked Sphynx cat. Here I am once again painting a cat study in ArtRage.
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