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The Art Squirrel
28.02.2025
In this article I explain why I’ve given Blender’s sculpting tools another go and what I think so far.
25.02.2025
There are some new softwares available for 2D and 3D artists in this months belated resource roundup.
15.11.2024
In this months resource roundup I found resources for 3D and 2D art including depth map generation in Blender and some cool resources for Krita.
09.11.2024
A few days ago I tried out a new Addon for Blender by Giambattista Von Nettesheim called Bildeform: Bas Relief Maker From Your Models.
25.10.2024
Once again I am feeling like I need a major reflection and planning session as to what to do regarding my art.
24.10.2024
Hello to any readers, I have some more things to talk about to do with digital art this month.
06.10.2024
I decided to do some autumn themed digital painting studies using Krita, painting mushrooms, and harvest fruit.
19.09.2024
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…
29.08.2024
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…
21.08.2024
I designed and sculpted a bas-relief clock frame design intended for CNC or 3D printing purposes using a 2D to 3D workflow.
26.07.2024
This months resource roundup includes a few resources and news I’ve come across that might be useful for digital artists.
09.07.2024
Thankfully there is some specialised software to animate and export SVG for the web. Here are some software’s I researched for this article.
13.06.2024
The recent change to Adobes terms of service in the news made me re-evaluate whether I wanted to use Adobe going forward.
06.06.2024
I’ve gathered some random resources and news, recent and not so recent for this months art resource roundup.
26.05.2024
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.
21.05.2024
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
19.05.2024
I made a 2 part time-lapse showing the process I wrote about in my previous article “Make Heightmap from image for Bas-Relief
12.05.2024
This is a step by step overview of the process for making a height map from a 2D image without using AI based tools
27.04.2024
Here are some time-lapse videos for a digital painting of a red squirrel using Krita and Rebelle and the written outline for them.
13.04.2024
In this months resource roundup there are some new 3D software developments, interesting addons for Blender and some random art related things
10.04.2024
I discuss three methods of making alpha images using 3D models and compare the results in the videos for this article.
23.03.2024
I have finished editing all of the articles, reorganised into more appropriate sections and fixed or removed broken links.
13.02.2024
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
14.01.2024
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…
25.12.2023
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
24.12.2023
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.
19.12.2023
I made some rough 3D fairy models and posed them with Mixamo. The renders were done using Blender.
15.12.2023
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.
07.12.2023
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…
19.11.2023
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
10.11.2023
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…
13.10.2023
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…
Howler is a program for digital painting, animation and VFX, it has many interesting features and painting using 3D renders is one of them…
Resource roundup for October 2023 for 2D art, 3D art and interesting news relating to digital media.
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…
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…
Get Howler 2022 for free: digital painting, VFX and animation software. Also known as project dogwaffle in the old days.
04.09.2023
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.
25.08.2023
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…
30.05.2023
I’ve been working on some studies for a personal hybrid 3D and 2D Illustration project I’m doing.