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Published: 2010-03-12 19:35:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 8948; Favourites: 312; Downloads: 0
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Still on a bit of a hiatus here... Haven't managed to finish anything significant, so until then, I'll not be here very much.I'm also horribly behind on messages, so I apologize for that.
Okay. Mara the unicorn again.... in color? In Painter?
(Hold on, one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse just rode by outside the window...)
I confess I am not terribly fond of working digitally. It lacks something, at least for me. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I don't get the full sense of joy when I'm using a tablet, even if working digitally costs a bit less, haha.
But yes, I did try, and this is my first Corel Painter experiment. Just a little portrait, nothing all that special, and it took me FAR too long. Let me know what you think, at any rate... at least this looks better than my Photoshop work! 
Corel Painter Essentials (ha), adjusted in Photoshop. Used the gouache brushes, mostly.
Character © April Schumacher
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Comments: 67
Cool I like the uniqueness of her. Good job. Very creative
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Naw, she's gorgeous!!! I love that she doesn't really look like a horse at all - it's more like those old paintings, where the unicorns look like a unique breed of animals.
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Just love the elegant strength you've managed to capture here. Love her expression
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this is amazing for a first attemt at painter, but how much is painter because i am thinking about buying it? any advice?
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Ah... let's see. This version was, in a sense, free, since it was part of the software bundle that came with my Wacom Bamboo tablet.
I've heard it's fairly expensive, but I can't recall how much! I know that if I work at a larger size, that it doesn't like my computer and it lags. (Working on a Macbook Pro, by the way.)
(Bah, sorry, I wasn't all that much help...
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I think the gouache brushes are my favourite. This really does look traditionally painted!
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It's just so... versatile! I don't know if half the other brushes work as well for me.
And thanks!
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I DO really like the colour choices. The blue eyes and auburn hair work well together with her white fur.
You did good on painter. Though I am with you on the whole digital work thing. I do like it, but there just seems to be something missing...But sometimes it can be fun.
No advise from me; I think she looks great!
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Gorgeous use of color! To me, its the most realistic unicorn I have yet to see.
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working on a screen hurts your eyes more than paper. Plus it's all too clean! The undo button is helpful but a digital piece is (in my opinion don't kill me here digital artists) more throwaway because it's just a piece of digital coding. If you have a traditional piece it actually exists tangibly and in my opinion that makes it worth a little bit more-that little bit more permenant.
Plus i like to stick my art up on the wall.....you really can't do that with a jpeg file
PS I love that even in digital you've givin it the painterly look of the traditional
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Now THAT is a valid point. We wouldn't want burned out retinas at such an early age, now would we? It's also part of the reason my traditional drawings are on the larger size. That, and digital is too clean, and oftentimes I think it feels oddly plastic. Ah well...
I'm glad this one still looks like a traditional painting, though!
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you can take the artist out of the traditional but you can't take the traditional out of the artist!
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As I thought the colours look amazing
I didn't notice this was digital at first either, beautiful work regardless!
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Thanks very much! I was worried for a little while the auburn hair might be "too much", but it just works.
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I think what you're missing is the texture that working traditionally provides. Everything is too smooth, too worked out here 
I really do love the use of color in this painting though
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She's so elegant as ever! I love her mane to death xD Also, here she looks very... wise, I think this is the right word. Very eye-catching and your digital art is real nice.
However I should say that your traditional art makes me more happy. It's just feels more alive. But well, this can be just me.
Anayways, lovely work and Mara is absolutely charming.
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Thanks very much! "Wise" is an apt word to describe her, too.
I totally agree with you on the traditional art. I feel more alive when creating it!
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Mara and her beautiful mane! 
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She looks like she just came out of a unicorn salon with a dye job, tehe!
I'm glad the auburn seems to be working out alright, I've only had it in my head up until this point.
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thats kick ass for a 1st painter experiment. There was much gnashing & getting frustrated on my 1st attempt
I know what you mean about digital. I never seem as satisfied with digital painting. it doesn't stop me from going back though :S
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She looks... wise. I'm not sure that's what she's supposed to look, once again, but she totally looks wise. As if she had seen lots of stuff and just can't help but smile at our stupidness and weird tries to get things right.
I'm so used to seeing traditional works from you, I didn't even see this was digital until I read your description! Anyway, if you're more confortable with traditional medias, you should stick to them. I would like to try them out, but I'm to shy and afraid I'd screw them up. (Plus, I have no idea how to transport them with my moving around. You have to admit that they take up their space.)
Oh, and if that horseman ever comes back, tell him to stand still long enough for you to draw him, will you?
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I think you pinned her character down pretty well with that description, though she's also quite condescending in regards to the human race, hehe.
I'm beginning to feel I should simply accept that traditional media is my true calling.
I'll tranquilize him, if I have to...
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Oh, I think condescending just comes with the age and wiseness. While she can't help smiling, I'm sure she help thinking "they've done that hundreds of times, when will they finally figure out that it's not working?". I'm sure it falls on her nerves from time to time. (But then again, she could teach us, couldn't she?)
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Painter or no Painter, the ears are still mega fuzzy.
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That is one fact that media can never change!
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Absolutely wonderful piece - I love the contrast of her mane 
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Thank you, I'm glad you think so!
I used an approach very similar to my traditional work here, so I think that helped some.
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You're so welcome April! 
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The portait looks very good. The way she looks is a good alternative to the horse - unicorns.
Very well done.
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This is a very nice expiramental piece. Even for one who hasn't dabbled much in the digital media, this is really nice!
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Why thank you! Sometimes I think digital is a little too much for my brain to handle.
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You are still my favorite artist, you do know that, right?…
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You've just given me a serious case of the warm fuzzies, heehe!
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Huzzah for warm fuzzies! 
Wow, MCAD wears a person down by midterms, that much I can say is true!
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It's even more welcome when I don't get the warm fuzzies all that often, hehe!
Indeed it does! I kind of wish I could relive those days in order to teach my current lazy self a lesson. 
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Everyone needs more fuzzies!
It is it is! I love my new crazy artist friends, and I've learned that still life's are a lot more intricate than I first thought.
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I totally agree!
Good to hear! I think I'd made most of my close friends through MCAD (had fallings out with some, though 
Oh yes... those still life setups can throw one for a loop! I like the ones with skulls, etc. the most, of course.
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I think once people are in college they're there because they want to be and therefore are perhaps more honest which makes it easier and better to make lasting friendships. I'm always amazed how far some people come to go to MCAD! One of my friends is from North Carolina!
I love the ones with skulls! I have to say there's a real communication in still lifes I had no awareness of before. Or at least the ones that my prof. sets up. It's pretty neat.
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Hmm I'll have to try those brushes. I've yet to find a combo that works for me x_x It feels sooooo weird drawing in painter!
Though I have to give it up to the painter programmers, the way they rendered everything... I SO thought this was traditional. What an illusion!
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I think the gouache brushes get along with me the best... others are a little weird for my liking, and too heavily textured at times.
You did? Oooh, I'm glad then! *is proud of self*
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