The Essential ArtRage Guide | An Artist's Tutorial

Become a Graphic Designer

Created byMatthew Dewey

Last updated 10/2018

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What you'll learn

You will have a better understanding of graphic design tools
Attain experience with ArtRage for, building your knowledge of the software

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 56m total length

Introduction1:13
Explore the ArtRage interface, use its tools to your advantage, and learn to create custom colors and design your canvas for your masterpiece.
Creating Your Custom Canvas3:05
Learn to create a custom canvas in ArtRage, set the background color with the color wheel, choose canvas type and roughness, and adjust size for beginner-friendly painting.
How to use the Color Wheel5:00
The Art Tools Part 19:02
Explore essential art tools in ArtRage, including oil and watercolor brushes, airbrush, pencil, paint roller, felt tip, glue pen, and stickers, plus texture and color blending.
The Art Tools Part 26:09
Explore advanced art tools, including pastel textures, cloning, razor erasing, tube of paint, glitter, and inner circle tools like text, paint can, color sampler, and transform.
Using Tool Settings6:35
Explore tool settings for the oil paint brush, adjusting pressure, transparency, loading, and drying behavior, and learn how auto clean, color bleed, and brush shape influence digital painting.
Using Stencils3:29
Discover how to use stencils in art programs to paint within lines, create letters and posters, and transform stencils with flip, rotate, invert, and god mode for training your painting.
Adding Stickers2:02
Explore adding stickers by selecting from the stickers tab and placing them onto pictures. Create posters with triangles, numbers, and letters, and adjust shadows for unique effects.
The Advantage of Presets2:13
Explore presets in ArtRage to adjust tool settings, manage defaults, and experiment with watercolor, oil paint, and ink pen presets for your personal style.
Using Your Samples Tray3:03
Discover and manage colors with the samples tray beside the color wheel; add, organize, export, and sort color samples into collections to build a reusable palette across devices.
Using the Layers Feature5:05
Explore how to use the layers feature in ArtRage to stack separate color layers, control visibility and opacity, and merge layers for a cohesive final composition.
The Tracing Features3:00
Use tracing in ArtRage by importing an image, tracing with adjustable opacity, and automatically selecting colors from the image while switching between normal and tracing modes.
The Bonuses of References1:55
Pin and position reference images beside your canvas, resize them, and switch to blank references as you paint. Use references to guide complex artworks and compare visuals.
Activating Workbench Mode3:27
Activate workbench mode to simplify the interface into a single adjustable bar, access tools, colors, layers, presets, and samples, adjust canvas positioning, and export your painting.
Conclusion0:58
Explore the ArtRage interface and transition from physical to virtual design. Learn to use the tools, the color wheel, and other features to enhance your graphic design.

Requirements

You will need to have the ArtRage software

Description

Hello and welcome fellow artists!

My name is Matthew Dewey. I have created many graphic designs in my life, but by far the best were created using ArtRage. ArtRage is one of the most useful art software in the world providing an array of useful tools that any graphic artist can benefit from. ArtRage will continue to grow in it's popularity, but despite this there are no doubt artists who struggle to use ArtRage to its full potential.

In this course I teach you how to use ArtRage, not just how to create a canvas and put paint on it, but also how to take advantage of more advanced settings which will no doubt lend you a hand in your artistic career. ArtRage is filled with these wonderful tools and using them is vitally important if you wish to create something with magnificence.

If you are interested in learning the interface and release your artistic talents this is the course for you!

Who this course is for:

Artists looking for a tutorial on the ArtRage 4 software