Digital Paint on a Digital Brush
Painting’s biggest problem is that it’s just too expensive. Once you’ve got a proper set up of canvases, oils and brushes, chances are you won’t have enough scratch left over for any sort of wholesome food, and a paint brush is no use when you’re lying in malnourished heap atop your collection of Empty magazines.
Luckily, there’s ArtRage. Because this easy-to-use painting software developed by Ambient Design Ltd. works almost just like the real thing. Designed to be used with a tablet but easily controlled with a standard mouse, ArtRage contains a slue of features that’ll make you feel immediately like some low-grade version of Da Vinci.
The oil brush is probably the most amazing among these, feeling very much like a real, wet paintbrush: if you paint over the top of another paint the colours will mix and you’ll be left with a combination of both on your brush; if you keep painting for a long time without “rewetting your brush” the paint will run out into a bristly smear; even a glass of water sits to the edge of the screen for cleaning your paints.
 |
Other features include pencils, crayons, preset rulers, stencils and of course some tried-and-true layer functions. Some of the work that has been produced by the 3 million-plus users of ArtRage is staggeringly close to looking like scanned-in masterpieces, it’s that powerful.
While nothing may ever beat good-old-fashioned canvas and brush, with ArtRage at least you’ll be able to sink your teeth into a steak (or vegetarian equivalent) once in a while.
Art in ArtRage by Rob Linton.
Video in ArtRage by ouroporos.
Check out more ArtRage.
