Corel Painter Projects
Many fine artists use Corel Painter as their primary art medium. Their works appear in galleries around the world, demonstrating that digitally-created art has become an accepted medium on the world's art scene.

Everything new thing I try to build, draw, or code has always sucked big time. Like any other section of this website - I primarily document my progress to see how my skills evolve. They usually do not.
Evolution is not on my side. Die Darwin.
Ive included a tips section below, but its just shortcut keys for now. See below.

 

 


This was a huge gamble as Pam entrusted me to do the wedding invitations.
This was done freehand with the ink and pallete knife tools.

 

My first attempt using the watercolor brushes for the first time.
Painter X - "Pam and Cobycat"

 

..second. I used a flower shot from Vancouver as my reference. I used a sable bristle brush here.

Painter Sketches - Rose

 

 

 

For this shot of our honeymoon in Bermuda, I used another bristle brush and combed the still wet paint
with a small pallete knife. The details in the clothes were touched up with felt marker brushes.

Painter Sketches - Bermuda Honeymoon

 

 

 

Painter X Shortcuts / Shortcut Keys

When learning a new digital software like Photoshop CS, or Corel Painter X, there are always a ton of buttons to press in order to perform simple tasks. And if you have to press all these buttons, and go into long menues everytime, you will work very slow. So its a good idea to try to have a good workflow, with the use of some shortcuts & hot keys wich I like to call them. The hot keys im about to give you, are those that I use most often in Corel Painter. And many of them can also be used in similar software like for instance Adobe Photoshop, so I will tell you if you can use the hotkeys in that program aswell. Where I dont mention Photoshop the hotkeys are different in that program, and I wont bother to say what it really is.

1. CTRL + Z = UNDO (Same in Photoshop)
2. CTRL + Y = REDO
3. B = BRUSH TOOL (Same in Photoshop)
4. CTRL + F = FILL
5. E = ROTATE CANVAS
6. CTRL + / = USE LAST USED FILTER
7. ALT GR + ] = INCREASE BRUSH SIZE
8. ALT GR + [ = DECREASE BRUSH SIZE
9. SPACE + LEFT MOUSE CLICK AND DRAG = PANNING AROUND
10. CTRL + = ZOOM IN (Same in Photoshop)
11. CTRL - = ZOOM OUT (Same in Photoshop)
12 D = EYEDROPPER TOOL
13. T = TEXT TOOL ( Same in Photoshop)
14. CTRL + A = MARK ENTIRE CANVAS (Same in Photoshop)
15. CTRL + C = COPY MARKED SELECTION (Same in Photoshop)
16. CTRL + V = PASTE SELECTION (Same in Photoshop)