Nib Preview Labels for Corel Painter

Credits: The following techniques and resources have been developed from an original concept by artist and illustrator Athos Boncompagni. Description Although it is possible to give an indication of the general behavior/ properties of a particular variant by including words such as ‘Grainy’ or ‘Thick’ in the variant name, it could be useful to have [...]

Suminagashi 2 Brushes

For those of you who remember the original Suminagashi brushes, which I made available on a previous website, these comprised of two brush categories; 1 Suminagashi and Distortonagashi. I have now amalgamated these into a single brush category, incorporating a few tweaks and additions to the variants. The new library is named Suminagashi 2, and [...]

Live Impasto Brushes

The word impasto most commonly refers to a painting technique, where paint is applied to an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, so that the brush or palette knife marks often remain visible when dry, providing a textural element to the canvas. Live Impasto is a brush library for Corel Painter [...]

Concept Glow Brushes

The Concept Glow brushes for Corel Painter 7 and above, take advantage of the Glow Brush Plug-in Subcategory, and are the result of a three day brush creation jam session. Although the brushes were developed with concept artists in mind, there is a stripped down version for those of you who are less interested in [...]

Tribal Beads and Weaves Brushes

The Tribal Beads and Weaves brushes for Corel Painter 7 and above have been primarily developed to quickly place repeating jewellery elements in your compositions. Beads and Weaves Brush Strokes The above image demonstrates some of the brush strokes possible using the Tribal Beads_Weaves variants. Download the Tribal Beads and Weaves Brush Library Tribal_Beads_Weaves.zip (144 [...]

Inkspiration Brushes for Corel Painter

The Inkspiration brushes have been developed primarily as a inspiration aid for fantasy and concept artists, although some of the variants can also produce strokes resembling Chinese calligraphy. Many of the variants have been intentionally designed to have a looseness and unpredictability of stroke, hopefully with the end result of producing ‘unfamiliar originality’ upon which [...]

Snow Time 2009 Brushes

I thought it would be fun to create a library of Christmas/ Winter Holiday related brushes for Corel Painter, and update them each year. I therefore present Snow Time 2009, which has been developed from a previous custom brush library. In many cases, the variants in this library have been saved with white as the [...]

Pattern Rendering Variants Using the Plug-in Method

IMPORTANT: Please read this section and follow the locking instructions before installing the Pattern Pens Glow brush library. I mentioned in my previous post Pattern Pens Plus that, quote; “Due to a bug in Painter, it is not currently possible to save a Rendered dab type variant with a Plug-in method subcategory (such as the [...]

Pattern Pens Plus

Pattern Pens Plus is a brush library comprising of 31 variants for Corel Painter 7 and above. The inspiration for this library came from two conceptual artists who struck a chord for their creativity and ‘outside the box’ thinking — Andrew Jones and Rob Stacy. Although having a concept art and design bias, the following [...]

Impastoso Brushes

Impastoso is a custom brush library for Corel Painter. As the name suggests, the associated brush variants utilise Painter’s impasto feature in order to produce a thick paint appearance with the illusion of depth. Although the brush library is available for Painter versions 7 and upwards, due to advances in the brush engine (e.g. Artists’ [...]

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