Our first assignment is to render these green apples on Corel Painter. Well it was pretty straight forward. The assignment focuses more on technique. I also saw it as an assignment to learn the program. Honestly, I prefer recording this, but I was working on the school computers which doesn't have Camtasia. I will probably start working on my laptop again just to record my process.
Process
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I started off with a grid [Canvas > Grid]. I set my options to 100x100 pixels. Then I drew the apples pretty quickly.
Then adding color for one apple. I decided to work with the back first for no particular reason. But I decided to do one apple at a time because of different textures.
For the texture of the apple's skin, I used basic paper. I just upped the size and contrast of the paper and drew the texture in one stroke. If I did too many strokes, it would lose the texture I wanted.
I got carried away for the next part. The skin on this one didnt turn out too well, but I could still use it with some tweaks.
The inside of the apple was pretty fun. I used the same texture except this time I overdid the strokes. It would leave little dots for the texture. So I decided I can use this. I deleted it, threw the apple skin color all over the sliced apple, then I redid that texture with the right color and it produced the inside of the apple. I just needed to clean it up some more.
I got most of the assignment done, so I cleaned and added more detail to the sliced apple. I used the regular pencil to get the lines of the inside of the apple. Then I used the square conte on 10% opacity which still would still heavily get on the canvas. I also removed a lot of the extra dots inside the apple.
I got carried away again here, so I missed out on a lot of stuff. The color for my apple felt really dull. So I grabbed a green from the original picture again and it worked. I also didn't like the shadow of the apple, so I pretty much removed it for now. I just wanted to make the color richer. I also redid the highlights and the shadow at the top of the apple.
From a distance, or from just looking at the navigation box, the two apples blended into each other. So I dropped all the layers, floated, and duplicated. Then I removed one apple in one layer, and removed the other apple in the duplicated layer. Then I adjusted the value without having to interfere with the other apple. I also decided to clean the edges of the apple.
Now I had to add the shadow back in. I took the square conte, made it really huge, and make a simple short stroke on the apple. It took a few tries until it got where I wanted. Then I erased where the sliced apple would be. Then I brought down the opacity of this layer.
I created another layer and added the same texture. This time I continued where I left off and moved upward. This would cause the two layers to overlap and make it darker. It would also darken the top right a little. Then I erased again and dropped the opacity.
For the darker shadows, I created another layer and used the airbrush. Then I dropped the opacity for that layer down, added the stem.
I started off with a grid [Canvas > Grid]. I set my options to 100x100 pixels. Then I drew the apples pretty quickly.
For the texture of the apple's skin, I used basic paper. I just upped the size and contrast of the paper and drew the texture in one stroke. If I did too many strokes, it would lose the texture I wanted.
The inside of the apple was pretty fun. I used the same texture except this time I overdid the strokes. It would leave little dots for the texture. So I decided I can use this. I deleted it, threw the apple skin color all over the sliced apple, then I redid that texture with the right color and it produced the inside of the apple. I just needed to clean it up some more.
I got most of the assignment done, so I cleaned and added more detail to the sliced apple. I used the regular pencil to get the lines of the inside of the apple. Then I used the square conte on 10% opacity which still would still heavily get on the canvas. I also removed a lot of the extra dots inside the apple.
I got carried away again here, so I missed out on a lot of stuff. The color for my apple felt really dull. So I grabbed a green from the original picture again and it worked. I also didn't like the shadow of the apple, so I pretty much removed it for now. I just wanted to make the color richer. I also redid the highlights and the shadow at the top of the apple.