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 think I have mentioned this in one of the resource roundups but here is a reminder that you can still download the full version of Howler (PD Howler AKA Project Dogwaffle- it’s all the same thing I think) 2022 for free. Howler sounds cooler though. Today is the last day you can update to…
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…
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…
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’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…