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Artist Feature: Steve Elliott (Landscape Art)

Steve Elliott is an English landscape artist who likes to paint landscapes from around England, and creates tutorial videos on YouTube. In this interview he shares his techniques for ArtRage’s watercolor and oils, and talks about the story behind his artwork. […]

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Floating Underground Sphere Tutorial by Steve Goad

Learn to create an underground landscape with a science fiction twist. Follow along with professional illustrator Steve Goad as he creates a unique landscape full of environmental detail, interesting perspective, and interesting textures in ArtRage 5. Steve Goad is one of our featured artists and painted some of the official artwork for ArtRage 5 (you may recognise his work from the startup screen in the program). […]

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How to Illustrate A Book Cover Three: Colour & Special Effects

How to Illustrate a Book Cover (Part 3 of 3): Colour & Special Effects. An ArtRage 5 tutorial by Nick Harris. Design a book cover from scratch. Part three of this art tutorial shows how to choose colors, finalize the composition and details, and experiment with special effects and finishing touches. […]

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Illustrating a Book Cover Two: Sketching, Flats and Shading (Tone)

How to Illustrate a Book Cover (Part 2 of 3): Sketching, Flats and Shading (Tone). An ArtRage 5 tutorial by Nick Harris. Part two demonstrates sketching the design and laying out the main elements of the composition, then adding flat colors and tone to plan the shadows and lighting. […]

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Illustrating a Book Cover One: Setting Up the Canvas

How to Illustrate a Book Cover (Part 1 of 3). An ArtRage 5 tutorial by Nick Harris. In this three part tutorial, Nick Harris uses ArtRage 5 to design a book cover from scratch and share some of his experience and techniques. This tutorial assumes that you are somewhat familiar with ArtRage 5 and covers customising the canvas resolution and interface, guides, toolboxes, the Custom Brush, filters, layers and advanced layer properties, standard painting tools (Pastels, Pencil, Palette Knife, Watercolor Brush), symmetry, text, stencils, transform and … […]

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Artist Feature: Stéphane Perriard

Stéphane Perriard is a Swiss board game designer who is currently running a Kickstarter for his abstract strategy game ‘Antagonism’, which was designed in ArtRage. Who are you? What do you want the internet to know about you? My Name is Stéphane Perriard (stephane.p) and I’m a Swiss 2D/3D digital artist in my spare time! I started to draw digitally in the ’90s on my old Amiga 1200HD with a great software called Brilliance and a mini graphic… […]

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What’s New in ArtRage 5?

ArtRage 5 comes with a lot of new features, almost too many to quickly summarise! Entirely new features include Perspective Sets, Guides, the Custom Brush, Layer Effects, a new Docking Mode interface, increased speed and stability. We have also added two new filter effects; Remove Color Matte and Warp. Upgraded tools include the Pencil, Pastel, Fill, Color Sampler and Transform tools. You can find a full list of changes on the Product Comparison… […]

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Warp Mode in ArtRage 5

Using Warp in ArtRage 5 to Distort and Transform Paint ArtRage 5 introduces the new Warp mode, which lets you smear, swirl, and otherwise distort your painting. It’s similar to Photoshop’s Liquify filter, but specifically designed to respect ArtRage’s paint properties, so you won’t lose texture or paint depth when distorting. This means that you […]

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ArtRage 5 Art Contest Winners

ArtRage 5 Contest Winners. We’re very pleased to announce the winners of the ArtRage 5 art contest, just as we are also excited to announce a tentative release date for ArtRage 5! We had a total of 238 entries, and you can view all of them on the main contest page or on Facebook. It was extremely difficult to judge, and we had to go through multiple voting rounds with the whole team, but by the end we had five very clear winners… […]

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