I have been meaning to take Gimp 2.10 out for a spin for a while now and finally got around to it by doing a few rabbit sketches.
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Getting The Smudge Tool Working In Gimp 2.10
Acrylic Painting 3: Rabbit Sitting Up
Here’s my third attempt with acrylics.
I’m still using a monochromatic approach but this time using burnt umber paint (brown).
Box Modelling An Anthropomorphic Rabbit In Blender
I’ve been 3D modelling an anthropomorphic rabbit for my project with John Fulton.
Here are a few process screenshots:
I learned a couple of nifty tricks in Blender doing this:
- Edge Slide: This allows you to select an edge loop and slide it along the geometry without affecting the overall shape. Here’s the Blender documentation on it: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/modeling/meshes/editing/edges.html
- Rip: This allows you to rip a mesh along seam, sounds easy to do but without this feature you would have to duplicate vertices and edges. Here’s the Blender documentation for it: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/modeling/meshes/editing/vertices.html
My First Acrylic Painting: Rabbit In The Grass
I’ve been meaning to try my hand at painting using a traditional medium such as acrylic paint for some time now.
I finally took the plunge and whilst I’m not completely happy with the result, I did really enjoy myself!
I started with a medium grey background and then did an initial colour block-in.
I then decided that my colours were completely wrong and did another colour block-in over the top. I tried to use an impasto (thick paint) technique as this seemed like fun, and it was!
Here I added a little more detail over the blocks of paint.
I struggled to get the right tonal variation whilst working with variation in colour as well here but I am calling this done and moving on. It’s so much easier working digitally since you can just set the value slider to get the right tones for the selected colour. Here I will have to learn how to mix paint physically!
Project Code: JKF-1
My friend and published author John Fulton, has written a collection of 9 science fiction short stories and needed some artwork to accompany his writings.
I am pretty excited to be working with him as his artist on this project to see if we can’t get it published on Amazon Kindle.
John has a website where he blogs about his writings and posts some well written book reviews. Check it out at http://www.johnkfulton.com/.
To help me organise myself a bit I am going to tag any work I do on this with “JKF-1”.
To get into the swing of things I’m doing a few studies of relevant subjects.
Here’s a study of a rabbit 🙂