Link Added: Ctrl+Paint

The most efficient method of learning something is to sit at the feet of masters and soak up their instruction.  Failing that you could try finding a good educational website.

Ctrlpaint.com is an awesome website and provides just about the best set of free digital painting video tutorials I have found to date.

It is run by a guy called Matt Kohr who is in my opinion a Jedi Master of the Digital Art world.

The short (5 mins approx.) videos are well thought out and clearly presented.

I am currently working my way through the huge list of these tutorials and they are pure gold.

I have added links to ctrlpaint.com to my Cool Links menu on the left and also to my Links page.  If you want to super-charge your digital art skills, hop on over and power-up!

Adding Tarnish with Blender Vertex Painting

Some of my mates suggested I tarnish my logo a little since that would be more steampunky so I wondered about using Vertex Painting in Blender.

This Blender Manual page on Vertex Painting gave me a good overview but I also found out that for vertex painting to be most effective, I had to have a lot of vertices.

It was no good having a really simple mesh like the one I started out with so I had to subdivide my mesh a fair bit.

Vertex Painting is awesome though!  It allows you to paint directly onto your 3D mesh – a very natural way to add colour to your 3D models.

Vertex Painting in Blender
Vertex Painting in Blender

Now my logo has a nice bit of tarnishing:

Tarnished Steampunk Logo
Tarnished Steampunk Logo