Since I don’t really know the software, it didn’t end up looking like it was drawn with charcoal. More like petroleum jelly on wax paper.
That is one of the disadvantages of digital media; normally there aren’t that many settings and options on a chunk of charcoal.

Self-Portrait 4-12-12 preliminary sketch

First ten minutes. Preliminary sketch where I roughed out the facial features and blocked in the background.

Twenty minutes into the sketch.

After twenty minutes of sketching I was starting to get some values on the face. You can get some nice soft shading gradations with charcoal but I wasn’t interested in that.

darren brant Self-Portrait 4-12-12 After Thirty Minutes

This is how my self-portrait looked after thirty minutes. I was trying to darken up the shadows on my face without loosing the nervous feel to the lines.

Self-Portrait 4-12-12 final

After forty minutes of work I decided I was done. I’m happy with the results, especially since my Corel Painter knowledge is negligible. (Listen to the artist blame his tools)

Title: Self Portrait 4/12/12
Media: Corel Painter 12 (charcoal)
Size: 11″ x 17″

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To try out my new toy I dashed off a few quick figure sketches of my artist’s mannequin.

Still not quite used to the digital art medium. More practice required.

Using the Soft Conte tool

Reclining Figure

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The North American verson of the Intuos4 comes with a choice of two from the following Autodesk® SketchBook® Express 2010, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 8, or Corel® Painter Sketch Pad.

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The software comes as a digital download, and you only get one chance to make your choice. Since I’m not familiar with any of the software I’m downloading the trials first before I make my decisions.

So far I’m liking SketchBook. The only problem I have is now it just hangs when I try to run it. Not sure what happened, more thought required.

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