Digital Illustration: Studio Set-up Continues

Organizing Studio:
This week I'm reorganized my studio so it's easier to paint digitally.

 

Organizing Corel Painter 11: 

Left Handed Set-up

1. Set-up book pages with scanned pencil sketches for several projects. 

2. Created custom color palettes from my watercolor paintings.

3. Saved patterns from art and photos.

3. Made custom brushes, pens, sponges, etc. and  locked them into the "Tracker" palette.

4. Saved custom workspace,  including my favorite palettes--Color Sets, Papers, Patterns, Tracker, Layers, Info.

Next....working with digital watercolor!  Will I be able to  get the same look as I do with traditional watercolor?

2010! Making the Leap from Traditional to Digital Illustration

I first met illustrator, William Low at Syracuse Univerisity in 2004. I was inspired to see him make the transition from traditional oils to digital oils.

Since 2004, I have been working both traditionally and digitally--mostly combining the two. This year with my new Wacom Cintiq 21 and Corel Painter 11, I want to take the leap to digital watercolor.

Here is William working on the illustrations for a children's book that he also wrote called "Machines Go To Work"---You can see why I was so inspired.

Relief Painting Experimenting Continues

 "Cat Eating Fish Taco in Pasadena"

"Dog Waiting at the Dentist in Brooklyn"

More experimenting with relief work. With hundreds of black and white prints all over the studio,  I've started experimenting with limited color palettes using watercolor.

School Visits

 

 

Hala's first day in the Studio!

Chasing one of Jean Tuttle's cat pins around the studio

--hours of entertainment

  

Looking for those yummy Winsor & Newton #7

expensive sable watercolor brushes.

                                               Sleeping in the warmest part of the studio