Stewart McKissick's Painter Factory Blog - All Comments

re: Some High School Student Illustrations, and a bit about the process.

Stewart McKissick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:10:11 GMT

Thanks, John. Aren't they great? I never cease to be impressed with the talent and imagination of my students, and some of these folks are barely 17.

re: Some High School Student Illustrations, and a bit about the process.

John Derry — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:43:33 GMT

Hi Stewart:

Wow! Those are some great efforts! It's really interesting to see the diversity of style. Great assignment technique!

-john

re: High School Student portraits

Stewart McKissick — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:44:12 GMT

Thanks for the nice comments, Jinny! As you no doubt know, teaching has its frustrations, but really more rewards.

I'll try to post a couple of their illustrations done with Painter soon.

re: High School Student portraits

Jinny Brown — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:31:23 GMT

My oh my! These kids are wonderful.

Not only are they accomplished, they've not lost the fearlessness little children bring to the world.

In addition to their varied and well done painting styles, each of these students' unique personalities shines through, from composed, mature, and beautiful Abigail to enthusiastic, humorous thumbs-up Joshua and all the kids in between... (I knew these personalities in high school way back when).

I love their portraits and love these kids too. No wonder you wanted to share their portraits with us, Stewart. You must be very proud of all of them.

Thanks!

Jinny

Creating Custom Paper Textures – Stewart McKissick's Painter … | Adobe Tutorials

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re: Creating Custom Paper Textures

VIllustrator — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:27:43 GMT

Thanks so much for creating this tutorial on "Creating Custom Paper Textures".

I used to prep my art boards in gesso and than paint my illustrations over the gesso texture once it dried. After the Gouache dried I lightly used Prismacolor pencils on the top surface of the gesso (to bring out the gesso texture).

I just joined paintfactory.com tonight and also began using Painter 11 as well... I don't know a better way to begin using Painter 11 than reminiscing about the way I used to paint (only all digital now, thankfully). Thanks for the perfect timing of your tutorial. :)

-Vanessa

re: CCAD Student Portraits

Persuader — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:13:16 GMT

Amazing. All of your posts so far. I, as somewhat of a newbie, appreciate your tutorials, step-by-steps and hints greatly, thank you!

I also find it fascinating how conservative and stuck up some areas of the world are - take Croatia for example. The art academies here don't even mention digital arts - in fact, they would rather burn all the CDs with digital painting software before teach their usage, let alone accept and acknowledge its value. It's refreshing to see that digital art is appreciated and taught alongside traditional art in more developed and openminded countries.

Keep up the great work, looking forward to more posts from you!

re: A bit about design, and using Illustrator with Painter

herojig — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:34:55 GMT

nice work and thx for the tip on illustrator!

re: On Inspiration and influence – and another monster

Stewart McKissick — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:09:56 GMT

Thanks for the nice comments, Petrina.

I am working on another entry now, sorry for being so slow!

Stewart

re: On Inspiration and influence – and another monster

Petrina Case Studio — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:10:53 GMT

Super write up. I am new to Corel Painter 4 Essentials and a Wacom tablet.

Your awesome article helps reinforce that I can put away the 100% D'Arches watercolor paper.

I most sincerely hope you write an article about the need for formal Art education and why it really helps the aspiring artist- as well as the drawbacks.

Hope to see more of your work.

Smile a while,

Petrina

re: Rendered Cartoon Illustration Technique Part 3

Stewart McKissick — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:29:01 GMT

That's a good tip, Dave - Thanks! I think the best advantage to using the pen tool is that it is editable = you can go back and tweak the curves until they're just how you want them, but the damping trick does work pretty good.

Stewart

re: Rendered Cartoon Illustration Technique Part 3

Dave Kyte — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:51:05 GMT

I am not really a cartoonist but have been doing some illustrations with a cartoon line art look to them.

As you said getting a "smooth decorative curl" is rather hard with even a large tablet and a steady hand. But Painter does have a setting that is a big help. Under "Brush Controls" "Spacing" 'Damping", set the Damping to a high number and it does wonders for drawing clean flowing lines.

re: Some thoughts about Painter...

steve szoczei — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:54:15 GMT

amazing pieces.... i love the statement 'the computer doesn't change who you are as an artist'... sometimes a difficult concept to get through to folks...

cheers

steve

re: Finally setting up!

Jinny Brown — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:59:47 GMT

Hi Stewart,

Looks good to me!

Blogging is new for me as well and I've been poking around on this site for a few months trying to figure things out and find answers to my questions. So far, so good, and I'm happy to say none of it's been too difficult.

Love your avater! ;)

Jinny