Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 19 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Corel Corporation
Rating
Course Overview
Learn what it takes to be a digital artist, and start on the road to being one yourself.
Learn Digital Art Fundamentals with Corel Painter. This course is designed to help you observe your design surroundings and appreciate the aesthetics that make it. In other words the principles and elements of good design is what we shall explore in this course.
Projects
After we cover these principles and elements, we will then move on and work on a practical project at the end of this course. We will look at the design brief, research and reference, planning for production and pre-visualization to Finished Artwork.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for anyone who enjoys digital art, from photographers, graphic and web designers, animators and more. Whether a beginner or even an intermediate user, you will gain a vast on skills taking this course.
Prerequisites
There are no skill prerequisites for this course. You are expected to have access to a copy of Corel Painter in any version, though we will be using Painter 2015 in this course, no prior Painter skills are required.
What am I going to get from this course?
• Quick orientation with Corel Painter
• Composing with paint and imported content
• Introduction to lighting tools in Corel Painter
• Proportion in Composition
• Mixing Fonts
• Properties of Line
• The Art of Simplification
• What is Light Logic and Radiosity
+ more...
What is the target audience?
Photographers, graphic and web designers, animators and anyone loving digital arts.
Course Content
- 9 section(s)
- 32 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Design
- Section 3 Space, line and lettering
- Section 4 Bite size design principles
- Section 5 Foundation of light in design
- Section 6 Artists tools
- Section 7 Bringing it all together
- Section 8 Bringing it all together
- Section 9 Bonus Material
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the basic principles and elements of good design, Master the concepts of spacial design and negative space, Apply design principles to your art, Leverage professional lighting techniques to make your art pop, Apply the learned design principles in using Corel Painter to create digital art, Complete a piece of art from pre-visualization to finished concept
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
-
JJens Henneberg
As the previous speaker Kim T. aptly described it: This is a basic course on design principles, it has almost nothing to do with Corel Painter. It is significant that in his first practical example (proportions) the author used Photoshop instead of Corel Painter and excused his semi-professional try-and-error by saying that he had not used Photoshop for a long time. Why in God's name does he use Photoshop in an instructional video whose title suggests that the focus is on Corel? I had to smile. I also smiled at the fonts lesson. Avoid uppercase letters in headings as long as there are only uppercase letters. Cut. His next slide already breaks this rule. All caps. I think the client Corel, which is also mentioned in the description, hired a "guest teacher" here, who certainly knows his business, but didn't put any heart and soul into the video. It seems a bit like provisional theater with initial kitchen philosophy.
-
TTyla
Its not what i expected but it has been useful in a different.
-
JJim Aiello
Well structured presentation, good orientation. And content
-
PPhilip L Schwigel
I am getting a grip on the basic information that Charlie is putting out there. I'm sure others who have more practical experience in the Digital Art & Design world would probably consider this boring, but I'm not going to give up on him yet. The back portion of the course where Charlie actually gets into his design & layout was really interesting. I am new to Corel PaintShop, but have been doing what I've needed to accomplish as a hobby in the CorelDraw program. I have had basic Corel PaintShop programs installed, but since I could accomplish what I needed in the CorelDraw portion, I really didn't open the Paint programs except for quick editing as the 2 programs work together. What got me interested in the painting portion was with the lighting in the designs & the ability to put forth the lighting & shading on your project. I seen Charlie work thru some of these lighting issues. It immediately hit my attention. My attention towards the the painting portion is where my interest are for now as I am trying to learn to build my own website for American Muscle Cars & plan on including digital arts that I would love to be a part of. I enjoyed the course as I learn more about the painting programs that I have on my computer.
