There are some more podcasts in particular I’ve found around the internet. Here is a round up of the ones I’ve listened to so far. Edit: I keep adding more as I find them so check back from time to time :-).
Most are art related but listening to other topics such as science, social issues and history can be very useful.
The Creative Condition Podcast
The Visual Storytelling Podcast
I’ve been experimenting with another normal map and digital painting related tool over the last few weeks which you can find in G’MIC (a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing). Luckily G’MIC is incorporated into the latest version(s) of Krita and can be used in other software as plugins you can find on the…
For this painting I started out as usual by making small painting studies in Krita using basic brushes. I tried a different approach than I have before for this image where I took the Initial grayscale colours and colourized them using Deoldify, an open source deep learning model to help colourize grayscale images. When I…
I had another go with Ebsynth, a non-AI tool (often mistaken as AI) to synthesize an inputted style onto video or animation frames using stylized key frames. It is a tool for digital rotoscope animation. There are limitations to this tool insofar that the keyframes have to match the video frames pretty closely for the…
I’ve been working on some studies for a personal hybrid 3D and 2D Illustration project I’m doing. The main character is humanoid. I’m still developing the project, there will be non-humanoid characters as well but that is for later. I have already sculpted and prepared the character for painting but I wanted to do some…
My Experience with Making Patterns I haven’t written about seamless patterns on this blog before but I started learning how to do them several years ago around 2016 when I first got a copy of Affinity Designer. I even got paid by Affinity for making my first ever pattern design as part of there promotion…
I’ve made a texture pack for use with the G’MIC Artistic Stylize filter. They are available on my Gumroad shop here: Handmade textures for use with G’MIC You can use them as described in my recent article. For more tips check out this article as well. I also made a video showing usage here: The…