the first of what I hope to be many new Corel painter tutorials, this is my technique and I am self taught with Corel painter. I do not know if the brushes will be the same in older versions or Corel Draw; I only use CorelPainter12. I will likely next cover either brush creation or Corel's layers and their differences from photoshop.
(edit; made it better and if this layout works will use it instead)
for the acrylic brushes ruining your canvas. i think you are talking about the impasto effect. you are talking about the texture lines that show up on the canvas right? you can turn them off. i believe their is an icon on the canvas window you can click. there is also an option in the menu at the top of the screen to turn it off. its not a glitch or anything
ah, at the time of this writing yeah, twas the impasto effect getting to me... but I still get a glitch where even if that is off it won't erase properly no matter what, it's an issue with my painter that probably doesn't extend to other people's programs
last time I updated it screwed up my operating system, I had to reinstall windows to get it to work again, so alas, I don't know if they fixed it in a later update :c