Hi, I am an archaeological illustrator and usually use traditional pen and ink techniques which often include a lot of stippling to show texture and shade on artefacts, example below. In Corel I can create a small dot and copy this using the pick tool and spacebar, is there a better way of doing this? Ideally using my Wacom pressure-sensitive pen and tablet to create stipples in a naturalistic way? Is there this functionality in later versions? Thanks!
Are you wanting the final product to be 100% vector? If so, then you'll have to create your own Artistic Media/image sprayer dot (s). I have several that I use, but nothing on the scale of your sample drawing you posted. I use mine to indicate folds or creases in my quilt pattern illustrations.
I have a one dot sprayer where the dot is only 0.018. It's more like a rounded off square, but that's the way I wanted it. Here's an example the larger 0.025 dot AM spraylist. Sample below shows it applied to a single line, a squiggly line and blob of lines. I usually just brush it as need, going over an area with squiggly lines to make it darker, crossing over areas not covered before. If I need to fill in areas or edges with some single dots I just make a short stroke and I get one dot.
I also made several straight edge type like this:
So...it is possible. ;)Patti
One more example. I tried my vector stipple dot brushes on part of this Lady Liberty head. The bad news is that with so many AM strokes, it takes a bit of time for CD to render them every time I selected or deselected them as a group. I felt like CD was getting unstable...and just after I exported this PNG, it crashed on me. Maybe I need more RAM???
Patti
Hey Patti, Can you tell exactly how you made your stippling brush, including a step by step, from start to finish, Please?
Hope this helps!
How about using "Stucki" of "Jarvis" in PhotoPaint? basically just a few clicks and you have this...