7) After applying the Overlay effect, your canvas should be heavily texturized. Based on preferences, you may want to adjust the opacity of the texture/overlay layer. Personally, I like to set mine at 50% opacity, as I find that the most natural.
How to Use the Starry Night Brush Pack
In this video, Painter Master Elite Justin Buus demonstrates each of the brushes in the Starry Night brush pack. This pack is a galactic combination of soft and sharp brushes that can go hand-in-hand to create realistic cosmos and stars in any piece of art, from nova bursts to shooting asteroids.
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Brush Pack Tutorials
- How to Use the Abstract Brush Pack
- How to Use the Alcohol Ink Brush Pack
- How to Use the All That Glitters Brush Pack
- How to Use the Android Jones Master Brush Pack
- How to Use the Animation Brush Pack
- How to Use the Art Nouveau Brush Pack
- How to Use the Artisan Pastels Brush Pack
- How to Use the Artisan Pens Brush Pack
- How to Use the Atmosphere Brush Pack
- How to Use the Bold Strokes Brushes
- How to Use the Bristly Brush Pack
- How to Use the Bubbles Brush Pack
- How to Use the Celebration Brushes
- How to Use the Cher Pendarvis Master Brush Pack
- How to Use the Chunky Paint Brushes
- How to Use the Creepers Brush Pack
- How to Use the Debris Brush Pack
- How to Use the Don Seegmiller Master Brush Pack
- How to Use the Dry Texture Brush Pack
- How to Use the Fabric Brush
- How to Use the Fabric Fantasy Brushes
- How to Use the Fantasy Brushes
- How to Use the Fashion Illustration Brushes
- How to Use the Fine Art Brushes
- How to Use the Fireworks Brushes
- How to Use the Fur Brush Pack
- How to Use the Gestural Illustration Brushes
- How to Use the Grainy Brush Pack
- How to Use the Graphic Impact Brush Pack
- How to Use the Grunge Brush Pack
- How to Use the Hair Brush Pack
- How to Use the Halloween Brush Pack
- How to Use the Karen Bonaker Master Brush Pack
- How to Use the Impressions Brush Pack
- How to Use the Inking Brush Pack
- How to Use the JulieAnne Jonker Master Brush Pack
- How to use the Leaves brush pack
- How to Use the Light It Up Brush Pack
- How to Use the Majestic Animals Brush Pack
- How to Use the Manga II Brush Pack
- How to Use the Michelle Webb Master Brush Pack
- How to Use the Mike Thompson Master Brush Pack
- How to Use the Nature Brush Pack
- How to Use the Neon Lights Brushes
- How to Use the Photo Portrait Brushes
- How to Use the Pop Art Brushes
- How to Use the Rain Brushes
- How to Use the Rust and Patina Brushes
- How to Use the Snow Brushes
- How to Use the Spaced Out Brush Pack
- How to Use the Splatter Brush Pack
- How to Use the Splish and Splash Brushes
- How to Use the Spring Brush Pack
- How to Use the Starry Night Brush Pack
- How to Use the Stipple Brush Pack
- How to Use the Storm Brush Pack
- How to Use the Suminagashi Ink Brush Pack
- How to Use the Superhero Brush Pack
- How to Use the Tide Brush Pack
- How to Use the Translucent Brush Pack
- How to Use the Urban Brush Pack
- How to Use the Watery Brush Pack
- How to use the Wedding brushes
- How to use the Wilderness brush pack
- How to Use the Winter Brushes
- Working with Fluid Paint
- Exploring the selections workflow in Painter
- Creating Color Selections in Painter
- How to Customize and Use Stamp-type Brushes
- Watercolor Brushes and Workflow
- New Brush Library Experience
- New Brush Size Library
- New Features and Enhancements in Painter 2022
- Enhanced Performance
- Mixing Dry Media with Watercolor
- Sumi-e Watercolor Painting
- How to calibrate brushes
- Reviewing the Color Selection Tools
- Webinar: Painter Tips and Tricks
- An Overview of the Oil Brushes
- Impressionist Painting with Oil Brushes
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Before We Start
Before we begin the tutorial, I’d like to point out the brushes and the layer settings that I will be using.
1) G-Pen: This default brush will be used for blocking out the initial color scheme of the painting. It will also be used at the end to block in the mountains.
2) Running Edge Watercolor: This default watercolor brush will be the most frequently used during this tutorial. It will be used for both the clouds and the lighting required to achieve the glowing effect shown in the painting.
3) Blur: I will only use the blur tool once but based on preference, this default blending brush can definitely be used in multiple areas.
4) Blend: My go-to default blending brush for this tutorial. This brush is great at blending and mixing colors evenly to create smooth gradients.
5) Spray: Great for quickly drawing stars. One thing to remember is that the density of the dots/individual pixels grows as the brush size decreases. A larger brush size = smaller and more spread out dots.
6) Soft Airbrush: This default airbrush is great not only for erasing and touching up mistakes, but also for gradually adding in colors and mixing colors as well.
7) Transparent color setting: This isn’t a brush, but a color setting. Instead of opting for an eraser brush, I find it easier to keep both texture and consistency in strokes but using this setting. Instead of applying color, the transparent color setting acts as an eraser. I have mine set on the shortcut Ctrl+C (I believe that is the default shortcut).
Layer Settings
1) Normal: As the name states, this is the normal default layer setting. Every new layer created will be automatically set as Normal.
2) Overlay: This filter will be used at the very end to lay a texture effect on top of the finished painting without affecting the pigmentation and lighting of the painting.
3) Add (Glow): The Add layers have a brightening effect, but the glow option is more intense. It creates a “glow” effect, especially when using bright colors such as white. We will be using this layer several times to create lighting.
Tutorial
Now that we’ve gone over the tools that Clip Studio offers that will be used in this tutorial, we can go ahead and get started with the painting process!
1) The first thing I do is lay out the colors I want to use in the painting. We want to choose colors that are almost complementary (EX: blue and orange, purple and yellow). However, directly complementary colors will look incredibly forced and unnatural. So, for this painting, I chose indigo (purple-blue) and a dull yellow.
2) After choosing the colors, we’re going to block in the colors. We want to keep the majority of the painting blue/ purple and keep the yellow/orange at the very bottom as a highlight.
3) After blocking in the colors, we’re going to use the Blur tool and blur out all the sharp edges. This will make the blending process faster and smoother.
4) Using the Blend tool, we’re going to blend towards the center (Blend the top down and the bottom up). Remember to keep the majority of the canvas the darker blue/purple color.
Tutorial: Starry Night Belly Painting
Being pregnant is a very special time, so moms-to-be often want to celebrate this time through belly painting. Belly painting is a fun experience not only for the mother, but for the painter as well! This is your time as a painter to really showcase your skills and make something very special for the client. While some moms may want the simple teddy bear or flowers, it is important for you to be able to offer a variety of designs and styles that will suit a variety of mothers’ interests.
In this tutorial, I will show you something a little different than the common teddy bear or baby design. This painting will be based off of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, and will appeal to the artsy moms. This is an impressive design that is surprisingly simple to accomplish.
Materials
- Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Dark Blue
- Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Lagoon Blue
- Wolfe Skinz Fair
- Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Yellow
- Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Orange
- Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Dark Brown
- Mehron Paradise Makeup AQ Nuance Deep Sea
- Black Paint
- White Paint
The first thing you do for this design is use a white or light colored paint to draw a circle on the belly. You can trace something such as a large bowl if you cannot create a symmetrical shape by hand. An oval shape may also work depending on the woman’s body. Then, outline all of the major parts of the design such as the large tree in the front, the rolling hills in the back, and the general direction and placement of the swirls and stars in the sky. It is very helpful to look at the original painting of ‘Starry Night’ to get a better idea of the placement of everything,
Next, use a round brush to create short, messy, horizontal strokes in the background with your dark blue paint. Roughly fill out the swirl and the stars with white paint so that the light colors will appear more brilliant when you place them on top. This is just the first base layer, so everything can and should be a little rough and messy.
After you have the base layer down, start to layer colors. Fill the large swirl with a mixture of your Lagoon Blue/lighter blue paint and some white. Then, add a little bit of black to your dark blue and add it to the edges of the sky. This adds more dimensionality and interest. Always use short, wispy strokes. I also cleaned up the edges at this point.
This is the step where things really start to come together. Simply fill in the tree with black using short vertical strokes to give it that illusion of upward motion and texture. Then, fill in the hills with dark blue; add the black-blue to the edges or where the mountains overlap, and use your lighter blue to add highlights on the tops of the mountains and flat areas. The buildings in the front can be very roughly sketched; I just created some rough looking house shapes and a tall pointed building really quickly with black.
To finish off the sky, simply use your Wolfe Skinz paint in the color Fair to add some strokes on top of the white stars and randomly within the large swirl. Then, mix in a little bit of yellow and layer in some more. Finally, mix in orange and create dots in the middle of the stars and create the moon shape on the right hand side of the painting. It really is just about layering, highlighting, and creating shadows.
Finally, make little c shapes at the bottom of the hills using dark blue and a pale blue-white mixture. Fill the buildings with neutral colors such as a light brown (I just mixed a little bit of dark brown in with the Wolfe Fair color), and add interest by adding some blue and dark brown accents.
Use your dark brown and deep sea/teal colored paint to add some accents to the tree in the foreground. Do not go crazy on this, just use thin vertical lines to help define the object.
Then you’re done!
Additional Options
To take this design even further, you could add some embellishments around the outside edge of the shape. It is up to your personal taste.
Another option is to get rid of the circular shape altogether. The mother’s entire belly could act as a canvas and you could recreate ‘Starry Night’ all across the mother’s body. This option may take slightly longer, but again, it is up to your personal taste and the wishes of the mom-to-be.
