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Art Squirrel Magazine One

Art Squirrel Magazine One

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…

Trying out Digital Marbling

Trying out Digital Marbling

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…

Painting Study Process: Kira

Painting Study Process: Kira

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…

Winter Resource Roundup

Winter Resource Roundup

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…