b.trenga wrote:
Hey guys,
i have a client that wouldl like me to do some schematic renderings and really like the look of water color or a hand marker rendering.
Based on your example, you really want to use Piranesi which can acheive exactly that appearance...once you learn to use it and assuming you are a bit artistic yourself.
Nothing will achieve that automatically.
Photoshop filters can give a nice look - but not the one you've shown, nor one that is particularly artistic unless you do a bit of masking and manual brush work too.
Another tip from a Piranesi Expert, Susan Sorger, is to insert hand-painted entourage - people/trees/sky - into a computer-painted image, as the viewer will latch onto the handwork of those elements and easily believe that the entire image was hand-painted. (Susan sells libraries of her hand-painted entourage, if her style happens to fit your needs. Your image shows marker people rather than painted people, though.)
There is a 30 day trial version of Piranesi here:
http://www.informatix.co.uk/piranesi/downloads/windows/demo.shtml
along with some tutorials/etc. (The full product comes with 100's of textures and cutouts - not present in the demo download.)
Informatix gallery here:
http://www.informatix.co.uk/piranesi/gallery.shtml
Also, visit the Piranesi forums and user gallery (ranging from really, really bad to pretty good stuff) here:
http://www.informatixsoftware.com/forums/
Because the 'art' part is the user him/herself - you cannot judge the software by the images, but merely use them to suggest possibilities.
A true 'wet' watercolor is not possible in Piranesi though. (Corel Painter, and some other software, allow you to adjust the wetness of the paper and the drying time of your brush to determine the spread of washes, blending of colors, etc.)
(Every effect in your sample image is possible in Piranesi...in fact, that image looks more computer-manipulated than hand-painted based on the sky and the uniformity of the grass gradient.)
Have fun with it,
Karl
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