Learn to paint with Painter Essentials 5

If you’re keen to start creating digital paintings with a traditional feel, but want to keep your costs down for now, learning Painter Essentials 5 is well worth your time.

Painter Essentials is a scaled-down version of Corel's professional Painter application, but for an introduction to digital painting Painter Essentials it's a great place to start. This software is for people who want try out digital painting, but don't want to pay too much for software and don't mind the absence of some of the expert features in professional-grade graphics software. Essentials is a functional art program at a fraction of the price of Corel Painter. Currently you can buy Painter Essentials 5 for 49.99 dollars, whilst the pro version called „Painter 2015“ costs you somewhere around 429.00 dollars. Also you can download an instant 30 day trial version for free.

I’m going to show you the different kinds of tools, brushes, effects and techniques this software has to offer. When I’ve shown you all need to know to get started we will first sketch and then use the digital acrylics and oils to paint a quick painting of a piece of fabric.

After creating your fist digital painting we are going draw a black and white portrait with oily pastels together.

I won’t be able to show you absolutely every single option in Painter Essentials 5 but it's a good basic knowledge to get started.