I have been making a different version of the squirrel mascot for this blog in 3D for several years now. Here is the latest one: I used Curvy 3D, ZBrush, 3DCoat and Blender (I’m staying on version 3.5) for this one. The eyes in this picture are from the Tinyeyes Blender asset pack, I made…
I have been busy making some 3D models for my Sketchfab store. I will be designing and making some more, including some bas relief models for CNC and 3D printing. Seahorse Seahorse by Christine on Sketchfab Humpback Whale Humpback Whale by Christine on Sketchfab Dolphin Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) by Christine on Sketchfab Mouse and…
This PDF eBook has taken me a while to put together in between other art related and real life tasks I’ve been doing but I’ve decided to hit the publish button on it today. I do not think this will be a regular thing I will do but it was interesting to try a different…
Happy New Year to my readers. I haven’t set any resolutions this year but I am working on new projects and developing my skills. Some attention will be given to Affinity Publisher this month which has been sitting on my computer for several years gathering dust. I have decided to make a little eBook or…
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…
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…
Here is another resource round up article for art and design resources I’ve spotted around the web. Lunacy Lunacy is a free design software for Mac, Windows and Linux that comes with some AI features like image up-scaling, background removal, avatar generation and text generation. Avatar Mixer A free tool by Kenny to make different…
This is the last post I will make here just as a summing up of things I was researching before I came to that decision last month. I’ve decided to move on from actively adding content to this blog so that I can focus on other things. Non of these are sponsored or requested to…
I’ve seen some cool things around the internet to do with digital art and software. which I wanted to share with you this month. I have recently created a new Twitter account as an aid to my blog research, however Twitter makes people log in to view my profile and read the updates, so I’ve…
This is another one of those posts where I look at some art software with recent developments or updates that have caught my eye or I think might be interesting to readers of this blog. Last year I made a big post going through developments and updates in software which I kept adding to throughout…
Krita 5 was released just before Christmas 2021 and had its first bug fix on the 7th of January 2022 bringing it to the current version 5.02. Krita is a free open source digital painting program which also has animation features. There were a lot of updates in version 5 of the program which you…
Stone Baked Games has released a tool for making your very own jigsaw puzzle games using the popular free game engine software Unity. The tool is available on Itch.io (early access) and comes bundled with the jigsaw puzzle game: The Adventures of Wolf and Hood as a demo for what the package can create. When…