Tracing Layer Series

Painting a Cardinal

From a photograph to a painting: Tracing is a great way of laying down your preliminary colors you pull out easily out of your source image. In this video, Tom demonstrates his approach to painting a beautiful cardinal from a photograph, using both tracing layers system and freehand technique. He explains how tracing in Rebelle works and what to do to set up a Tracing and an Influenced layer. This video will also teach you how you can create a custom color set out of your photograph.