Intro Digital Design

Ready to explore the software program that’s changing the way photo art is created? Join creativeLIVE instructor Jeremy Sutton for an exploration of Corel Painter X3, a sophisticated tool for transforming photographs into fine art paintings. Drawing on his experience as a professional Painter artist, Jeremy will guide you step-by-step through the CorelPainter X3 interface and share his approach to painting from photo reference. Along the way, you’ll learn practical tips and shortcuts for using this powerful creative tool to its full potential in an efficient and empowering way. You’ll learn tips for choosing which of your images are best suited for photo painting and why. Jeremy will cover prepping images for painting, organizational systems that free you up to be creative, abstracting from the source, and resolving and refining your paintings.

In this lecture and demonstration, Aaron Limonick shares a number of rapid sketching techniques for use in any production environment. Beginning with a ‘blank canvas’ in Adobe Photoshop, Aaron demonstrates the creative process behind designing for an ultimately collaborative effort, the purposes of different types of sketches, and finally the importance of painting value studies and color keys in a quick and effective manner. Using the methods of a traditional painter in a digital medium, students will learn how to bridge the gap between a variety of quick ideation sketches and a finished concept painting with a sense of story.