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

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

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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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

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

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

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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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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29.05.2023

Resource Roundup End of May - The Art Squirrel

Here is another roundup of resources for digital art. Some free and some not so free.

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22.05.2023

Notes on Baking Models with 3D Coat - The Art Squirrel

This is a selection of personal notes on some of the technical aspects I've made over time using a program called 3D Coat. 3D Coat is for sculpting and painting…

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20.05.2023

Digital Sculpting - The Art Squirrel

The point of this blog is (hopefully) to help like minded people find resources and inspiration to perhaps try new things. I am still learning how to do digital…

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15.05.2023

Art Squirrel Magazine One - The Art Squirrel

In this edition there is an exclusive tutorial on a squirrel pencil style drawing I made using Krita and a few other things.

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14.04.2023

Trying out Digital Marbling - The Art Squirrel

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…

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14.04.2023

Resource Roundup For Spring - The Art Squirrel

Well the weather doesn't feel very spring like with all the rain we have been having in the UK but here is another random lot of cool things I've found on the…

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04.04.2023

Trying The Adobe Firefly Beta - The Art Squirrel

I decided to try out the Beta for Adobe Firefly, which is Adobe’s new AI art tool. The Beta is free for anyone to try right now.

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20.03.2023

Copy Color From Image: Image Color Transfer - The Art Squirrel

Testing color matching from images with Image Colour Transfer Processing by M RenzuIIo and T Johnson, MagicTints and G’MIC.

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20.03.2023

Painting Study Process: Kira - The Art Squirrel

For this painting I started out by making small painting studies in Krita using basic brushes.

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15.03.2023

Pencil Style Digital Painting in Krita: Frog - The Art Squirrel

For this project I started with a 3D render image from Blender and then use pencil brushes in Krita for a pencil drawing style.

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

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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

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

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

December Resource Roundup - The Art Squirrel

Digital Bristle Brushes and Impasto Painting - The Art Squirrel

Winter Draws In - The Art Squirrel

PBR painting for 2D Illustration - The Art Squirrel

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

Get Howler 2022 for Free - The Art Squirrel

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

Resource Roundup for October 2023 - The Art Squirrel

New 3D Mascot for the Blog - The Art Squirrel

Ostrich Animation Made with Ebsynth - The Art Squirrel

Resource Roundup August - The Art Squirrel

Head and Skin Tone Studies - The Art Squirrel

Resource Roundup End of May - The Art Squirrel

Notes on Baking Models with 3D Coat - The Art Squirrel

Digital Sculpting - The Art Squirrel

Art Squirrel Magazine One - The Art Squirrel

Trying out Digital Marbling - The Art Squirrel

Resource Roundup For Spring - The Art Squirrel

Trying The Adobe Firefly Beta - The Art Squirrel

Copy Color From Image: Image Color Transfer - The Art Squirrel

Painting Study Process: Kira - The Art Squirrel

Pencil Style Digital Painting in Krita: Frog - The Art Squirrel

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