Tag: 3d
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Because I work with digital art it’s easy for me to get distracted. There’s always some new software, some new capabilities added, or some aspect of a program as yet unexplored. Worse yet is my interest in so many artistic styles and concepts. I do a lot of experimentation and preliminary work for images I’m working on or some bright idea I’d like to do in the future. Rather than let these images (I call them sketches) sit, I’ll be adding them to the site from now on so you all can see some of the process. The distractions have now been weaponized! Read More …
This is How I Do It
People frequently ask me how I make my artwork. It’s mostly 3D based, using a process I call Virtual Photography, 3D objects are arranged in space (vertical, horizontal and distance), colored, lit with virtual lighting and photographed with virtual cameras (what’s known as a render). Once the scene or object is rendered it’s cleaned up, filtered, or further arranged in a 2D software application. The approach Read More …
African Masks-3D Modeling
So this is something new I’ve been working on for the last month or so. I’m slowly teaching myself 3D modeling using Blender in order to create and modify simple objects for use in my Poser art. Here are two masks modeled after authentic sources, textured, and set up for display. I expect these to turn up in some of my other artwork in Read More …
My Favorite Things: Monoprice Graphic Tablet
Here’s an item I’ve had for about a year, a 10 x 6.5 inch graphics tablet by MonoPrice. This is a $50 tablet that packs a lot of punch. When my ancient 5 x 4 Wacom went out on me I decided to replace it. I hadn’t used the Wacom in a while but was interested in trying to do some postwork in my 3D Read More …