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Cowboy – Painting

This digital painting is my first attempt using my new Wacom Cintiq 12wx with Corel Painter.

Firstly the Wacom Cintiq is amazing! I would highly recommend this to both artists and designers. I had to upgrade my computer a little to compensate for another screen, but it is totally worth it!

Corel Painter is a fantastic program! I was amazed by how real the paint strokes look and how easy it is to use when combined with the Cintiq. I would definitely recommend this setup to all you fine artists out there who are interested in exploring the digital world.

I used this photo as a reference. Photo taken by Matt Cohen.

This is my final result.

I’m certainly not a fine artist and I will be the first to admit using the under-painting palette which pulls colors directly from your photo reference, but I was still amazed at the final outcome and how easy this was to achieve. This whole painting took me about 2 hours to complete.

4 Comments so far:

1. John says:

   September 8, 2010 at 5:59 pm

   hey man, nice blog…really like it and added it to bookmarks. keep up with good work

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2. Paul says:

   September 8, 2010 at 7:08 pm

   Thanks John, appreciate the comment.

   Reply
3. Jason says:

   February 11, 2011 at 9:40 pm

   Love your work. Keep it up!

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4. Paul Griffin says:

   September 9, 2011 at 4:13 pm

   Paul – the painting software makes me jealous!

   Your work is great!

   Paul

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