Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
JACKMORE
Painting Inside
Painting with Bristle Brushes & Draw Inside
Advanced Technique
Overview:
Start with a placed image as a reference; create a line drawing made of closed
paths; use a variety of bristle brushes and the Draw Inside mode to paint the sketch; add a
rectangular background with a Charcoal art brush edge.
Draw Inside mode makes it easy to create a painterly illustration with bristle
brushes. Lisa Jackmore drew this sketch of an artichoke, using a Wacom tablet with
her Art Pen, and several modified brushes. After drawing a simple outline of the
artichoke leaves and the stem with the Pencil tool, she utilized the Draw Inside mode
and painted with a range of bristle brushes.
1 Drawing the outlines.
Jackmore used a snapshot as a basic reference, but if you pre-
fer to draw directly on top of a photo or drawing use File> Place and enable the Tem-
plate option. In order to create an accurate line drawing she double-clicked the Pen-
cil tool to open Pencil Tool Options, where she chose the most Accurate Fidelity, then
disabled Edit Selected Paths and Keep Selected. Into one layer she created a 1-pt line
drawing using the Pencil tool, making sure that she closed each leaf and stem path so
that she would later be able to add detail and color to the loosely-drawn paths using
the Draw Inside mode.
