I have actually learned to go with this and my style has incorporated it as a result. In Artrage, I so often come out with a green colour when mixing two non-green colours. Colour selection and mixing is more complex and ‘true’ in Rebelle.(Pushing paint around with a straw/hair dryer etc.) The main one being: the hand blowing technique of painting as described here. There are therefore things you can do in Rebelle that you simply cannot do in Artrage.I’m pretty confident the skills you learn in Rebelle would transfer back into the real world, where you’re painting on real watercolour paper. You could do any watercolour course and apply the realworld techniques digitally, without spending a fortune on paints and papers. Rebelle is therefore better for watercolour, a medium which is heavily influenced by the thickness, wetness and tooth of the paper.You’ll see the difference as soon as you try it. All other software out there mimics the effect of paint interacting with paper.
There is a genuine, physics based interaction between paper and media.
Basically, the developers don’t MEAN users to make heavy use of layers. I have read the manual cover to cover and now I’m sure of it - though I found it unbelievable - you can’t group layers. The reason I could never fully utilise Rebelle 3 as my main digital art software is its very limited layer management. But if watercolour is not your thing, Artrage has a lot more functionality. The short answer: nothing matches Rebelle 3 for digital watercolour simulation. If you have to choose, which should you buy? In my case, would I get much use out of Rebelle when I’ve been an Artrage fan since 2011? With both, you can pick up your pen and start drawing right away. They are both excellent, lower-priced digital art software which replicate real-world media and painting techniques. The most likely problem programs are tablet drivers and antivirus programs, so start with those.Artrage by Ambient Design, and Rebelle, by Escape Motions, are in some ways similar. You might need to add each program back to the startup list individually and keep restarting, or you might find that just starting something up breaks ArtRage. You can then start up 'normally' but without your usual programs, and turn them on one at a time to see when ArtRage stops working. Go to Run > type msconfig > tick Diagnostic Startup. If you can, it was a tablet driver problem, and we can start fixing that. Then go back to normal mode and see if you can start ArtRage now. Go to Edit > Preferences > Input and untick everything you can see there. Two things to try next (in any order, they come at the same problem from different directions):ġ. This may be drivers, or it may be something like an antivirus program. If Safe Mode works, then something else is the problem.