still trying to figure out Painter...

Today's progress. Ugggh.

Figuring out Painter

I decided to illustrate Wonderful Good in Photoshop and Painter. I like the way you can add dimensional brushstrokes with the Painter software. It is going to take me weeks to figure out how to go about this. There are so many brushes, settings and textures to choose from. I want to get it all "just right" before I proceed.
Above is today's attempt.

Pasadena Project

One of the assignments for school requires us to create a picture that represents Pasadena, the location of our contact period. I am going to do a retro image with some type and graphics on it. This picture is one of the components of the piece. I am trying to work in Corel Painter. The learning curve is steep but i like the results. The first picture is the image in photoshop, the second is the cloning process in Painter. I have a very long way to go.