Now that I have overcome my fear of talking on videos (I figure it is good practice for the podcast) I will be making more videos talking about software or showing cool resources I’ve found as well as writing blog posts. I made a video yesterday talking about a software by Escape Motions called Flame…
Over the last few weeks or so I’ve been getting more organized and sorting out my “eat the frog” activities. That is to say I’ve been doing things that are not exactly enjoyable but are necessary. If you haven’t come across the phrase “eat the frog” before, it means tackling the tasks that are boring…
Things feel a bit sparse lately when it comes to digital art related things I can mention in the resource roundup, but if I find anything else during Autumn I will add it to this article. It might just be because I’ve been re-organizing myself and doing an anatomy course on Udemy though. Video Tutorials…
I own a copy of ZBrush 2022 so I’ve been using it to do more 3D sculpting lately. It keeps me busy and lets me explore my 2D sketch ideas in 3D. (I’ve tried using Blender for this sometimes and it is a lot better than it used to be for sculpting but my computer…
This week I heard about a new tool which is designed for re-lighting photographs, paintings and Illustrations. It uses AI to create depth maps and normal maps from 2D images and has an intuitive interactive way of creating and editing lights for trying different lighting scenarios. More in depth information is available on their blog…
I’ve got a few things I can tell you about in this latest resource roundup post. CG Art Resources and software A new PBR value IOR website called Physically Based has been made. Material Maker is a free procedural PBR material generator DesignDoll is a tool (there is a free and a paid version) for…
Last week a new video was created by Ramón Miranda showing how to use his new pencil sketching brush set for Krita. The brushes are free and you can find links to them in the video description or on this thread at the Krita Artists forum. I took part in the challenge to draw some…
You can read about the development notes for this update on the official Krita website here. This is a major new feature release which includes the following highlights: Even more operations can handle multiple selected layers. Improved support for the WebP, Photoshop layered TIFF and Photoshop files, and there’s new support for the JPEG-XL file…
There is an open Beta for a new 3D sculpting application being developed by Adobe called Substance Modeler. You can read more about this and sign up here. At present it is Windows only software. Interestingly it looks like this program is designed to work for both VR and desktop and uses a voxel based…
I’ve touched upon this subject before on this blog. My earlier articles around this subject are as follows: Using Normal Maps for Illustration Lighting 2D Art with Normal Maps Using Normal and Height Maps to Light 2D Art Lighting 2D Art with Depth Maps A Method for Making 2D Images Into 3D Models I recently…
For this article I focus on how I turned an Illustrated 2D dragon into a rough base mesh using a program called Curvy 3D. I tried a few methods but this one was the easiest way to do it. I will discuss some other things I tried toward the end of the article and some…
Here is another assorted resource roundup for you. I’ve collected links to software, tutorials and other digital art or creative resources I thought were useful or interesting (most often both). As usual I am not asked to make these posts by any of the people or companies I mention, not that I wouldn’t mention them…