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This tutorial was orginally created as an interactive thread in the PC&AaFF HERE by Cym~ - if you have any questions about it, please do post in that thread.
Examples of work produced following the instructions below can be viewed HERE
Welcome to an ArtRage tutorial. Hopefully it will encourage you to keep experimenting with the program. (For those of you who don't know what ArtRage is, check it out at ArtRage.com).
This is the picture we'll be painting.
As you go through this tutorial keep in mind you can do all this with different colors to get a completely different picture. Throw a tree or water somewhere else and you have a creation all your own.
Step 1
Select the smooth paper and then cover the whole thing with white, brush at 100% and pressure all the way up, get alot of paint on there. This will help you blend colors later. Almost any painting I do starts this way, even its not a snowscape. This works for grass, mountains, sand...whatever.
Step 2
Next decide what colors are in your sky, experiment with the color, keeping the brush and pressure at 100%, make some long brush strokes of colors for the sky. Here I have used a bluish purple palette.
Step 3
Select the vertical palette knife with about a 36% width, (this doesn't have to be precise, and I encourage using different settings to see what happens) set the pressure about half way, gently and slowly move the knife across the paint until you get desired effect. Blend and smooth so the brush lines don't show. Use a few upward strokes, and some circles. Remember the knife will carry one color to another portion of your picture that you might not want it to, the only way to clean it off first is to select another tool and then go back to the knife. So try to stay in the same area as you are blending, and clean the knife when you move on to a different color area.
Step 4
Add some background, again paint it in with a few strokes of the brush as in Step 2, then go back in with your knife and blend and shape and smooth. I stayed with a blue, but this will work with almost any color you choose.( I have had no formal art training other than some highschool classes, so I am sure some of you know more about color, hue and composition than I do.)
Step 5
Select the brush and since I can't read what setting I had it on now that I've shrunk these pictures, ummm, make it smaller than 100% and add some colors for water. Here I tried to mimic the sky but kept it mostly blue. Notice I am not drawing in the water in a precise fashion...just slop the paint in there!
Step 6
Select the knife again, and with a narrow setting start blending and smoothing the paint till you get the look you want. I have kept the back shoreline darker and the foreground lighter. I like to keep the knife on the canvas as long as possible without letting up, if you stop and start too much you will get scratch like markings in your paintings. If you do get a blob of something you don't like try moving the knife in small circles on it till it blends away. Also, hitting the Z on the keyboard will undo anything!
Step 7
Back to the brush, set it fairly wide and adjust the pressure as needed. Once again, just slop in some paint but try to give it contours to shape the land. The way I have done it here gives the impression of small rolling hills. I have used some grays and a light purple and left some of the original white still show to give it the look of snow. Take your knife and blend and smooth again.
Step 8
Use the brush to add a few shadow lines. On the left you see how I added a line. On the right is the same sort of line blended in with the knife set very narrow and following the contours.
Step 9
Now select the crayon to start dotting in the foilage. Vary the widths & pressure, vary the color and go over the same areas with a slightly different hue to get lights & darks. Start with the pressure set on the lighter side and go from there. Stick those happy little bushes in anywhere you think they will look good. In this picture they are following the contour of the hill, helping define the land even more.
Step 10
After you get some foilage in, add a tree by using the brush and carefully painting up, keep narrowing the brush as you paint in branches & twigs. Vary the hues as you go, the white base will help the paint blend. (This is the hardest part of the painting to do with a mouse) I really can't teach you how to paint a tree, just remember to bend those lines, very few branches are straight.
Step 11
Hindsight is 20-20, I decided this picture needed more snow & shadow so I snuck some more in and very carefully blended it with the knife. Set the brush at 1% and very litte pressure and paint some thin white water lines on the far shore and perhaps in the middle of your pool if it needs it. Going over them with a knife set at 1% and the least pressure can blend them slightly if the appear too bold. I also decided the bushes needed something and went over them with grayish white crayon set lightly, and also painted in some thin lines and topped them with the crayon to look like small trees. I added some snow to the main to tree by using the brush set at 1% and put it along the branches, dotted in a little crayon along the trunk to give the impression of snow sticking to it. I added a fence by using brown and going over it with white to create the snow covered look. 7 simple lines to build the fence...nothing to tricky.
And there you have it!
I hope this helps in some way. Nobody wants to actually copy anyone else pictures, but in this case it may help you learn some techniques to use in your own paintings. Please feel free to comment or ask questions, and a link to any picture this tutorial has inspired. (I am sure there are details I have left out, I have never tried to write a tutorial before. This is a first).
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