I’ve mentioned the sight-size method in other posts for drawing and painting. Tip 1 For Painting Silver Objects – Using The Sight-Size Method For Drawing If you are a digital artist and not wanting to draw but want to get to painting straight away, you can import your reference image to trace. If painting traditionally in oil or acrylic, I would start with a charcoal sketch. The method I use digitally is identical to how I would approach traditional painting, minus the mixing of paint.įor this study, I’m using a traditional approach by drawing the teapot freehand with the pencil tool. I seem to have trouble getting good photos of my physical paintings and taking screenshots of my progress on the ArtRage app makes things much easier. I’ve done a few studies in acrylic which I’ll review later, but this step-by-step tutorial is done using ArtRage on my iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil.

Painting silver objects or shiny things can seem very daunting at first, but when you break the reflections down into abstract shapes, it’s is much more manageable. When I took up painting again a little over a year ago, I found myself wanting to paint reflective surfaces for some unknown reason. In today’s article, I’ll be going over 9+ tips and tricks for painting silver objects. (opens in new tab) Read more: 20 best iPad art apps for painting and sketching.

This article originally appeared in ImagineFX issue 147. It helps you to produce fantastic, realistic-looking results, gives you a lot of customisation if you need it, and is a bargain buy to boot. They appear translucently so that you can see your painting and use your brushstrokes to more creatively clone your photos, while ArtRage's Automatic Colour selection samples the relevant colours for you.ĪrtRage 5 is straightforward to use from the outset, with a gentle learning curve. Additionally you can use your reference images to colour-pick, to make painting even faster. Again, this enables you to make the most of your workspace.

Multiple Reference Images can be pinned to your screens so that you can use them as you paint, which is handy in itself, but they can be re-sized, repositioned and also zoomed into if you only need to look at one specific area. ArtRage 5 enables you to choose options such as how much paint is loaded and how well it mixesĪnother new feature in version 5 is its ability to import photos or images as both reference images and tracing images.

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