User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 3

Joyce Ryan

The first sketch was created with Tapered Artist Chalk 10 from the Chalk brush

category. The second sketch was created with Fine Detail Air 3 from Airbrushes.

Once you have your sketches, it is time to clean them up and create the

model sheet. You can use layers, or even better, clone your drawing.

1 Clone your drawing (File > Clone).

2 Choose Select > All.

3 Delete the image in the clone (press Delete or Backspace).

4 Toggle on the tracing paper by selecting Canvas > Tracing Paper, or

clicking the Toggle Tracing Paper button in the upper-right corner of

the image window.

5 Trace your sketch using the Pen tools from the toolbox.

6 In the property bar, enable the Stroke check box and disable Fill.

Clean up the drawings using the shape tools to get perfect curves.

7 Create a variety of expressions for your character that show a full

range of emotions.

8 Turn on the rulers and the guides (Canvas > Rulers > Show Rulers

and Canvas > Guides > Show Guides), and set guidelines for

It is a good idea to start any

sketching session by going to Corel

Painter IX > Preferences > Brush

Tracking (Mac OS®), or Edit >

Preferences > Brush Tracking

(Windows®), and setting the

sensitivity of your pen. This is

especially helpful if you have a light

touch, or if you prefer different settings

with different variants. Some artists

even like to tape sketch paper to their

tablets so they feel the “tooth” of the

paper.

Cleaning up a drawing with

shapes has several advantages: Your

characters can be easily resized, and

parts that move can be created on

separate layers and animated

separately without you having to

redraw the whole character. Shapes are

also easily converted to selections,

allowing you to add painterly effects.