watercolor + felt pen branch tutorial (ar 3 Studio Pro)

[suziQ54241]

Great tutorial, the transparency lock feature may be the best digital helper there is. And you've shown it at it's best. Beautiful work. Thank you.

[screenpainter]

Panaslonix you are very welcome.
Susan, you are very welcome. and thank you for the comment.
I am growing quite accustomed to saying thank you to you lately.

[byroncallas]

Echoing everyone else, terrific tut and brushes Albert. I'm going to give them a go.

[screenpainter]

Thanks Byron. Glad you liked this.

[meeks]

I've been doing scenery practice lately, in an effort to improve my backgrounds, and, of course, that means drawing/painting a lot of trees. Thanks for the helpful post!

[barnburner]

I can see where this would be a big time saver.
I'm still using AR2, so this won't work for me, but it's given me an idea. Instead of doing something similar manually each time as I do now, I'm thinking I may try and see if making a layer of each step and saving to import as needed might work too?
Anyway, great tutorial! Thanks for sharing.

[screenpainter]

you are welcome Meeks.

sorry Mike, I should have put that info in the first post that it was for studio pro. I have got to remember that in the future.

I actually tried replicating in 2.6 and I couldn't. Even with the same felt pen settings and chalk settings and oil brush settings. I think the watercolor sort of forms a base for this technique. Other than that there were probably also changes in the tool behaviors between versions. That is inevitable with upgrades.

I would find it hard to go back and be without watercolor, transparency lock on layers, being able to make sticker brushes and being able to set presets for your tools. those are big time savers in AR 3 version and I am spoiled, but the good news is that Peter Pinckney uses ar 2.6 so amazing things are possible with that version.

[barnburner]

you are welcome Meeks.

sorry Mike, I should have put that info in the first post that it was for studio pro. I have got to remember that in the future.

I actually tried replicating in 2.6 and I couldn't. Even with the same felt pen settings and chalk settings and oil brush settings. I think the watercolor sort of forms a base for this technique. Other than that there were probably also changes in the tool behaviors between versions. That is inevitable with upgrades.

I would find it hard to go back and be without watercolor, transparency lock on layers, being able to make sticker brushes and being able to set presets for your tools. those are big time savers in AR 3 version and I am spoiled, but the good news is that Peter Pinckney uses ar 2.6 so amazing things are possible with that version.

Not to worry... When I saw "watercolor" in the title, I knew right away that it was AR3. I look at those threads too, because there is often things that I can adapt to AR2. I'm thinking that I may be able to use at least the principle of your technique. Won't be the same, but it may still be a time saver. Just need the time to work on it.
I'm thinking that I can take the various steps putting each on a seperate layer and use them that way, or merge them and use them as a mask. A large mask could cover a whole tree, or several, then trim down to fit with the eraser?
Maybe not, but it's worth trying..

[pat1940]

Thankyou so much for sharing, Gzairborne, very useful

[Rowena]

This is great!... thanks for sharing