Quick pimp and tutorial on using ArtRage
What is ArtRage? You mean besides your new best friend? This is ArtRage. The site describes it thusly:
ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC where ArtRage takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.
ArtRage is all about playing with paint without the mess, and having fun in the process. You can paint your own image from a blank canvas to completed work, or load in a picture to trace and have the tools pick their colours for you as you paint over it.
Once you get the hang of things like how to change the brush size and the pressure used, it's really a simple program to use. And if you have a tablet and pen? You're in twice the luck. Check out what other people have done using the program.
Enjoy, and have fun being creative.