Over the weekend I went down another rabbit hole of sorts finding out about an open source tool called Image Colour Transfer Processing by M RenzuIIo and T Johnson. There is a very informative Medium article they wrote here if you would like to learn more. Since it immediately reminded me of another tool I…
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…
This article is a transcript of the process shown in this video. For this mini project I started with a 3D sculpt for the frog using ZBrush and 3D coat. Any 3D software you use is fine as long as you are happy with it and this is optional if you are not interested in…
Another resource roundup post of random yet interconnected things in the world of digital art. Digital Painting Ramon Miranda is working on another set of brushes over at the Krita Artists forum. This time he is doing a coloured pencil variant for the pencil sketching brushes he made last year. I tried them out by…
I saw that ugocapeto3d had mentioned MiDaS v 3.1 recently which is a AI monocular depth estimation tool. It creates depth maps using a single 2D image which is pretty amazing. I have used a previous version of this tool in the past which I mentioned in an older dev diary post. I won’t go…
I’ve been just as distracted by the festivities as most people around this time of year, but I thought I would squeeze another resource roundup post in. Tutorials Winter Wonderland Grant Abbitt makes a lovely winter wonderland scene using Blender 3.4. As a side note I did use this sort of approach recently for an…
It is starting to get colder here in Britain, the last few days have been grey and foggy. It is important to keep motivated and working on projects as well as look after your health and mental well being during these darker days. The articles here may slow down a bit for the winter as…
Here is a time lapse video for a painting of a squirrel I did recently using PD Howler 2023. I mainly stuck to the oil brush category and made some custom brushes as I went along for this painting. The brushes I made are available here if you use PD Howler and want to try…
I’ve been looking at how to make animated brushes in PD Howler using some free sprite sheet animations I downloaded from itch.io. The sprites I used in the video are from these sources: Pixel Effects Pack Forks of Flame I made two narrated videos about this because I thought it would be better to show…
Disclaimer: This article is not sponsored by PD Howler. Over the last few weeks or so I have been looking at PD Howler 2023.3 and I will be writing some more articles going over the features in this interesting and versatile program. I will be honest, PD Howler has limitations with the layers not supporting…
I have found enough things of interest in the world of digital art and tech to write another one of these posts. Bit of a mixed bag this month. I haven’t put anything in any particular order, there are things for audio editing, digital art and business. Useful Apps and Software Ardour Ardour is an…
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…