ArtRage Digital Painting Tutorial #1 - Artrage Settings

[NinjaLukeI]

aRTRAGE PRO i dont know where to find the pressure and thinner thing

[xxCrazyIrishGirlxx]

Please! I need your help, I have been searching for a way to rotate my canvas and have it stay that way, but it reverts back to the original setting. I've tried just saving it vertically, but it ends up horizontal. Do you know how to make it stay vertical? I know your not ArtRage tech, if your not up to it, you don't have to tell me. I thank you for your time.

[angelsoffurtitude]

how do i delete layers?

[goodtimegwyn]

Hello, I wonder if you can help, although quite handy with pencil and paint, I am new to digital art. Do you use a laptop mouse, I find it quite tricky. Also - I have the free version on a months trial and wonder why mine looks different to yours. Is it worth buying the fully kit as a complete and utter amateur - or klutz at this?

[CartoonSNAP]

@goodtimegwyn You REALLY need to use a drawing tablet like the Wacom Bamboo Fun or any of their other tablets. The Bamboo Fun is very affordable and it's all you need. Once you have a tablet, the full program is very very worth it! Have fun :)

[goodtimegwyn]

@CartoonSNAP Thank you. I always wondered how it is done. I will hint at this on my birthday and fingers crossed may get it. Hope it is relatively easy to use, although it can't be worse than using a laptop keypad mouse. Thanks again

[shy63girl]

@CartoonSNAP where can i buy artrage downloader???

..tnx  ---shyGirl

[CartoonSNAP]

@shy63girl you can download ArtRage at Artrage dot com

have fun!

[Peach0nade]

they let u made a nick magazine cover??

[MrChic02]

Hey I got a question. Is ArtRage the same as AutoDesk Sketchbook? And which one is better for painting?

Please answer.

[CartoonSNAP]

@MrChic02 ArtRage is completely different from AutoDesk Sketchbook. Both are great, but for PAINTING, ArtRage is the greatest. You cannot do this stuff with Autodesk at all (Sketchbook pro doesn't have those paint textures). Go ArtRage -- just Google it and you'll find more ^_^

[plzuttaren]

Hey, How to get The pressure bar ?!?!

[MyNameIsBret]

This is probably a stupid question, so feel free to ignore it...

Is it a bad idea to import anything that's 300 to 600 dpi? I've been doing comics for some time, and it doesn't seem like art rage was made to handle something that large. It may just be my crappy laptop, but it lags like hell.

[CartoonSNAP]

@MyNameIsBret Hi Bret...not stupid at all! ArtRage seems to work best at 300dpi or less because the brush strokes are not big enough to give you the right texture at higher resolutions. I just paint at the smaller size and then enlarge the painting in Photoshop to match my high-res line art

[andyjroper]

@CartoonSNAP Hey great tutorials and love your work. Regarding enlarging your painting in photoshop - do you mean you hide the ink layer in ArtRage then scale up the painting to match up with your photoshop linework? What scales do you normally work with for high res?

[CartoonSNAP]

@andyjroper Hi Andy...basically, yes...I don't hide the ink layer until after it's imported into Photoshop and matched up. I honestly can't recall what the scale was...hopefully I mentioned it in the video. I think I paint at 150 dpi and then use 300 dpi in Photoshop. Experiment and see what works. I only figured this stuff out by making it up as I went along ;) Hope that helps.

[dpsalazarm]

I wonder if you like to paint with illustrator, in solid colors.. I have my ink finished but live paint bucket just convert all of it to flat lines.

Do you often paint in illustrator?

best regards :D

[CartoonSNAP]

Nope...I never paint in Illustrator...I just use it for inking in black and white.

[supersonicdrawer]

see the paint brush u use its SOO EFFECTIVE! oh does adobe photoshop elements have this brush u use? thanks :D

[BOONJAGGA]

@supersonicdrawer *Late reply* - no it does not. Photoshop uses a completely different system to manage their brushes than Artrage does. Photoshop uses a "stamp" based method where a "texture" and shape is applied to specific settings to achieve any effect (and I mean any.)

Artrage uses a completely different system where the user settings aren't effecting how a "stamp" works, but more so how the brush itself works. Photoshop started out as an image editor, and later became painting software.

[BoogsterSU2]

You guys did great with Nick magazine covers.

too bad u retired because ur magazine industry is gone =(

but if i put my cool painting on deviantART, ill soon get that DD for sure!! :D

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[Lagunathunders]

Great tutorials dude! Helped me a lot, but there's just one little proiblem... artrage won't let me import the photoshop file... don't know what i'm doing wrong. is there anything you need to do with the file before importing it to artrage?

thanks again for the tutorials!

[CartoonSNAP]

ArtRage 2.5 won't import a PSD file that is in CMYK mode...check to see if your PSD file is in RGB mode. Let me know if that helps! --Sherm

[Lagunathunders]

yeah, it worked perfectly well. thanks again! you're awesome!

[SayidShazeen]

Hugely helpful! just got my artrage and wacom intuous.. Ace!

[CartoonSNAP]

Hi Sayid...I'm so happy to know they're helpful! I love ArtRage and I wish more people knew how great it is ^_^

[Wolke20007]

And i have a secound question. How can i change the save format. ?

[Wolke20007]

I have Art Rage 2,too. But .. i wanna use the layers. i drew a circle and i wanna draw. but i didn't see the color -.-"

[theTRUE1414]

program seems cool :o

[mesiotaku]

looks like fun

[mnilandcom]

looks very interesting