Things have been a bit slow with the Art Squirrel blog lately because I’m busy working on other commitments. It is hard to find much to talk about but here are…

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29.08.2024

New 3D Blog Mascot for 2024 - Art Squirrel

I like to make a new 3D version of my squirrel mascot for this blog every year if I can so that I can practice my skills and try new things. I decided to make a…

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21.08.2024

Bas Relief Squirrel Frame Clock - Art Squirrel

I designed and sculpted a bas-relief clock frame design intended for CNC or 3D printing purposes using a 2D to 3D workflow.

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26.07.2024

Resource Roundup July 2024 - Art Squirrel

This months resource roundup includes a few resources and news I’ve come across that might be useful for digital artists.

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09.07.2024

SVG Based Motion Graphics Software - Art Squirrel

Thankfully there is some specialised software to animate and export SVG for the web. Here are some software’s I researched for this article.

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13.06.2024

Adobe Creative Cloud Terms Crossed my Line - Art Squirrel

The recent change to Adobes terms of service in the news made me re-evaluate whether I wanted to use Adobe going forward.

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06.06.2024

Resource Roundup June 2024 - Art Squirrel

I’ve gathered some random resources and news, recent and not so recent for this months art resource roundup.

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26.05.2024

Sculpting a Dragon - Art Squirrel

I made a 3D model of a dragon. It is loosely based on a drawing of Smaug that J.R.R. Tolkien made when he was writing “The Hobbit” and medieval Welsh dragons.

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21.05.2024

Resource Roundup May 2024 - Art Squirrel

resource roundup of interesting things and resources for 2D and 3D digital art so here are a few things I’ve gathered to blog about this month

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19.05.2024

Make Alpha From Image- Squirrel Clock Relief - Art Squirrel

I made a 2 part time-lapse showing the process I wrote about in my previous article “Make Heightmap from image for Bas-Relief

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12.05.2024

2D Image to Height Map for Bas-Relief - Art Squirrel

This is a step by step overview of the process for making a height map from a 2D image without using AI based tools

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27.04.2024

Drawing a Squirrel in Krita - Art Squirrel

Here are some time-lapse videos for a digital painting of a red squirrel using Krita and Rebelle and the written outline for them.

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13.04.2024

Resource Roundup for April 2024 - Art Squirrel

In this months resource roundup there are some new 3D software developments, interesting addons for Blender and some random art related things

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10.04.2024

Making Bas Relief Alpha Images Using 3D Models - Art Squirrel

I discuss three methods of making alpha images using 3D models and compare the results in the videos for this article.

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23.03.2024

Editing Articles and Fixing Links - Art Squirrel

I have finished editing all of the articles, reorganised into more appropriate sections and fixed or removed broken links.

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13.02.2024

News and Resources for February - The Art Squirrel

At present I’m working on and off on another 3D model, this time I thought I would have a go at doing a dragon

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14.01.2024

Rebelle 7 for Digital Texture Rubbing - The Art Squirrel

I decided to get Rebelle 7 because I wanted to test out the structures feature. I was also interested in the improved heightmap paper textures and I wanted to…

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25.12.2023

What I did on my break: Part 3 Animal Base Meshes - The Art Squirrel

I made some base meshes for animals including a horse skeleton; a camel; a giraffe; an Asian and African Elephant; a Rhino; a Polar Bear; a Tiger and a Gorilla

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24.12.2023

New Features in PD Howler 2024 build 80 - The Art Squirrel

PD Howler 2024 build 80 has added several improvements and new features to the 3D Render Geometry filter and introduces a new Double Loading feature to brushes.

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19.12.2023

What I did on my break: Part 2 Fairys - The Art Squirrel

I made some rough 3D fairy models and posed them with Mixamo. The renders were done using Blender.

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15.12.2023

What I did on my Break: Part 1 3D Snails - The Art Squirrel

This article is part one of a series of things I made while on a break. In this article I write about spirals and 3D snails.

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07.12.2023

December Resource Roundup - The Art Squirrel

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…

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19.11.2023

Digital Bristle Brushes and Impasto Painting - The Art Squirrel

I wanted to test how bristle brushes and impasto compared in Krita, Corel Painter and Rebelle. They have brushes for oil bristle painterly type images

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10.11.2023

Winter Draws In - The Art Squirrel

I know I haven't posted much recently but I think I need a little break. Perhaps I'll be back at some point. I have been in more of a brainstorming and idea…

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13.10.2023

Painting with 3D Renders in Howler 2024 - The Art Squirrel

Howler is a program for digital painting, animation and VFX, it has many interesting features and painting using 3D renders is one of them…

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13.10.2023

New 3D Mascot for the Blog - The Art Squirrel

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…

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13.10.2023

Resource Roundup for October 2023 - The Art Squirrel

Resource roundup for October 2023 for 2D art, 3D art and interesting news relating to digital media.

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13.10.2023

PBR painting for 2D Illustration - The Art Squirrel

I did another blender lighting experiment a few weeks ago with one of my digital painting studies. I created a normal map using the 4 hand painted light…

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13.10.2023

Get Howler 2022 for Free - The Art Squirrel

Get Howler 2022 for free: digital painting, VFX and animation software. Also known as project dogwaffle in the old days.

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13.10.2023

New 3D models in my Sketchfab Store - The Art Squirrel

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…

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04.09.2023

Ostrich Animation Made with Ebsynth - The Art Squirrel

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.

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25.08.2023

Resource Roundup August - The Art Squirrel

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…

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30.05.2023

Head and Skin Tone Studies - The Art Squirrel

I’ve been working on some studies for a personal hybrid 3D and 2D Illustration project I’m doing.

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SVG Based Motion Graphics Software - Art Squirrel

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Sculpting a Dragon - Art Squirrel

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Make Alpha From Image- Squirrel Clock Relief - Art Squirrel

2D Image to Height Map for Bas-Relief - Art Squirrel

Drawing a Squirrel in Krita - Art Squirrel

Resource Roundup for April 2024 - Art Squirrel

Making Bas Relief Alpha Images Using 3D Models - Art Squirrel

Editing Articles and Fixing Links - Art Squirrel

News and Resources for February - The Art Squirrel

Rebelle 7 for Digital Texture Rubbing - The Art Squirrel

What I did on my break: Part 3 Animal Base Meshes - The Art Squirrel

New Features in PD Howler 2024 build 80 - The Art Squirrel

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Digital Bristle Brushes and Impasto Painting - The Art Squirrel

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Painting with 3D Renders in Howler 2024 - The Art Squirrel

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Resource Roundup for October 2023 - The Art Squirrel

PBR painting for 2D Illustration - The Art Squirrel

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