Just a few things I noticed this month. These are probably not very recent though, I’ve been out of the loop since leaving social media and I’m not really in a position to keep doing research for the blog at the moment. 3D Meshrender is a 3D rendering software by the same developer that makes…
I did a little painting study of a squirrel for this article. I wanted to test how bristle brushes and impasto brushes compared and worked together (if at all) in Krita, Corel Painter (version 2021) and Rebelle (version 6). I decided to use those software because they all have brush engines that help create handpainted…
There have been a lot of developments with Howler 2024 recently but one of the coolest is the ability to render geometry and use it for making animated brushes. It supports .obj files. Howler is a unique program for digital painting, animation and VFX, it has many interesting features I haven’t seen in other digital…
Disclaimer: I haven’t been asked or paid to mention any of these resources by any of the people or companies associated with them (I should just put this in a banner across my website). 2D art Ink brushes for Krita Ramon Miranda has made 2 amazing sets of brushes for Krita which emulate various ink…
I did another blender lighting experiment a few weeks ago with one of my digital painting studies. Creating the Normal Map I created a normal map using the 4 hand painted light direction method. This time I did start off with a depth map because it helped speed up the process. I tried the depth…
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…
It has taken a little longer for me to compile some resources I’ve found due to other commitments but here we are for August. I might add to this more over the next few days as I go through my notes 3D Matcaps are useful things to have and make (for NPR and nice looks…
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…
Here is another roundup of resources for digital art. Some free and some not so free. As usual I’m not affiliated with any of the resources I write about here and I haven’t been asked to mention them, I just want to. 3D I found a great hair curve brush for ZBrush by “artmonky“. There…
Well the weather doesn’t feel very spring like with all the rain we have been having in the UK but here is another random lot of cool things I’ve found on the internet related to digital art. Sorry it has been a while. 3D ZBrush Guides has some free materials for use in ZBrush. I…
Last week I looked into methods of making digital marbling textures using the various software I have available to me. I chose to use Krita and G’MIC, PD Howler and Affinity Photo for these experiments. I made some videos to show you because it is difficult to explain otherwise. Marbling using PD Howler and gradients…
I decided to try out the Beta for Adobe Firefly, which is Adobe’s new AI art tool. The Beta is free for anyone to try right now. None of the images can be used for commercial purposes while in this Beta stage. I think they are testing things to see what people would use it…