I dreamed that I had opened my front door and the northern lights (aurora borealis, aurora) were going full force like what you see in the drawing. Then I remembered this dream I had a few nights ago.

I opened this drawing up today to finish it and had a flat gray background and didn’t know what to do with it. It’s better, but I’m still playing around with it! This was also some more practice on working my realistic style with Painter. I just feel better using a reference.Īnyways, I had started this drawing last weekend just for kicks right after I had done the no reference drawing.

Capture also came with Autodesk's Sketchbook which from what I can tell is better suited to technical drawing - more of a CAD program than an art program, although from some of the samples I guess you can create some awsome art in Sketchbook Express too.Here’s another Corel Painter painting/drawing! This time I used a reference and it seems like I can spend less time worrying about if it looks okay or not. I think my time will be better spent learning to use Inkscape, GIMP and Elements. Still trying to figure them out, but they look like children's programs. I found several graphic arts programs in the WIndows 8 app store. I have a home built PC I put together last fall and am running both Windows 7 and Winodws 8 on my new rig. I do have Adobe Elements and I didn't even realize it can be used to create images from scratch as well as editing photographs. From what I can see I can see at first glance Inkscape offers pretty much the same features, and I like the price. I debated getting the 'Splash' edition of the Bamboo tablet because it came with Artrage3. But I had fun painting back then and think maybe this much cleaner digital medium could reignite some of that artistic joy I had then, and without the mess or cost of oils and canvas, to say nothing of the smell of turpentine. Way back in my college days I did dabble in oils and painted a few pictures, even sold a couple, so I guess technically I'm a professional - but I would use that word very loosely - and the last painting I sold was oh about three decades ago. I can see how this could become lots of fun. I'm afraid my 'art' is at the preschool finger-painting stage and I'm just starting to get the hang of using the tablet to navigate and draw. Hello, I just bought a Wacom Capture tablet and am just getting started in this graphic arts hobby.