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Using the Sketch Effect in your Creative Process

Corel Painter Cloning Technique Series

By , About.com Guide

Tutorial by Karen Bonaker

Painter Version: 9.5 or higher
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Custom Palette Brushes: Chalk, Square Chalk 35, Digital Watercolor- Soft Broad Brush, Cloners- Soft Cloner, and Refer to Custom Palette tutorial
Paper Texture: Italian Watercolor

In this tutorial, we will take a look at the Sketch effect and how to apply it in your creative process. We will create a sketch and then from the sketch create a lovely mixed media painting. This technique can be used with most of the brush variants within Painter, but for this tutorial, we will mix it up and use Chalk and Digital Watercolors brush categories.

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Sketch Effect IntroSketch EffectSave the Practice Image The Sketch Dialog Box The Sketch Dialog Box The Equalize Effect The Equalize Effect
Float the Sketch LayerFloat the Sketch LayerInitial Wash Initial Wash Building the Background Building the Background Build ForegroundBuild Foreground
Final DetailFinal DetailFinal Texture WorkFinal Texture WorkTo Retain the Sketch or Not To Retain the Sketch or NotEqualize and Sharpen Equalize and Sharpen

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