If you aren’t into natural media but are looking for something closer to Photoshop, then the program still has plenty to offer you. If you would like to learn a new painting medium, then the program is also a low cost, low-pressure way to familiarize yourself with paint and pencils or create quick studies before attempting a complicated project.

Whether you can’t afford the materials, have run out of space in your sketchbook, break all your pencil leads, keep smudging your inks, don’t want to wait while the paint dries, the cats keep eating your pastels, or you are allergic to solvents, you can transfer your traditional skills over to digital and keep working with all the same familiar tools. Skim the bumps of your canvas with the pencil, watch the watercolors spread around cracks and crevices, scumble with oils and turn up the texture effects with your custom digital brushes. Customize your paper to get exactly the effect you want, whether that’s a smooth digital background, fine sketch paper, rough canvas, or a custom pattern of your own creation.

The program’s brushes interact with your canvas as you draw. The Watercolor tool still allows you perfect control over your art, and the Oils let you blend and mix as realistically as ever, but now it comes with a very natural pencil, flexible custom brush editing, and faster performance! The software has always been well known for traditional media, and that hasn’t changed in the tool. The app makes art fun again and lets you work with realistic tools! It also offers many advanced features designed to help you get exactly the result you need. It is a full-featured digital painting program for Windows and macOS that brings together the convenience of digital editing tools, the realism of traditional paint texture and colors and the fun of creating art in one easy to use, professional level, program.ĪrtRage helps you create art more easily, letting you just start painting without struggling with either the cost of materials or figuring out complicated brush settings. ArtRage is the latest release from Ambient Design.

It’s a canvas for thick, expressive oils and delicate watercolors, a sketchpad with a full set of pencils, and a sheet of paper with a stack of wax crayons all in one. ArtRage is a digital artist’s studio for Windows PC with a full range of familiar tools that look and work like the real things.

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