The good rambling librarian recommended me ArtRage after he saw my last post, so I decided to check it out.
ArtRage is a painting software, and it’s better and more realistic than procreate painter classic which I used for the painting in my last post. But because it’s more realistic, it’s a little harder to use, because the different layers of paint interact with one another.
Here’s my first attempt with ArtRage:
Just some random shapes and colours.
My only complaint with the free version of ArtRage is after painting for a while, the program loses more functionality. You cannot use the undo function for instance (but that makes things more realistic).
Anyway here’s my second attempt:
I’ve entitled this “Landscape of Venus”. Very cringeworthy, but that’s the first title that came to my mind. The more I look at this painting, the more improvements I think I can make to it. Maybe another time.
Gosh - painting on the computer is so fun. I can just collapse into a pile on the sofa and start creating images that come to mind there and then. Maybe I should give up photography 
….and they look so real too
Comment by Hijackqueen — April 17, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
Wow! I’m impressed. The texture and strokes are that of real brush painting. I wouldn’t have thought it was digital painting.
Comment by jettykey — April 17, 2006 @ 10:28 pm
Mmm… maybe ArtRage can give Corel Painter a run for the money… nice pics. You got talent leh.
Comment by Ivan Chew — April 18, 2006 @ 1:53 am
very nice
Comment by gecko — April 22, 2006 @ 6:45 pm
you put my MS Paint drawings to shame
Comment by the screwy skeptic — April 22, 2006 @ 10:23 pm
Aha! Found them at last! You ought to get yourself a copy of painter 8 - works like artrage, equally realistic brushstrokes and tons and tons of cool brushes. Still, pretty good capture of form for both. Not bad XD
Comment by Ophiel — May 24, 2006 @ 5:53 pm
Beautiful! But does the function allow paintings of details as in Reubenestic paintings or just abstracts?
Comment by C.C.Kam — May 28, 2006 @ 8:33 am