
“Wish you were here” – one of my first digital paintings done in Corel Painter X I used that version for about eight years before upgrading to CP18, and today I’m enjoying Corel Painter 2020. The first version of Corel that I got was Corel Painter X. To transform all of my pen and ink art into colorable adult pages for my newest book Inkandescence, I worked in Corel Painter on a Wacom 24″ drawing monitor. My first purchase after Corel Painter was a designated drawing screen. I created this character just for practice and as a vacation from work. Corel Painter is the closest thing to actual painting that I’ve been able to find to this day. I needed a program that would allow me to use my drawing hand the way that I use it with brushes, pencils and a tattoo gun. I’m a painter, an illustrator, a tattooist, and much more. My proposed design in the process of being inked on skin. I wanted a faster and easier way to manipulate, twist, and shape my designs, and to be able to present the proposals to my clients mapped onto actual photos of them.

I discovered Corel Painter over a decade ago when I was still a tattoo artist.
