Digital Art

For this article I focus on how I turned an Illustrated 2D dragon into a rough base mesh using a program called Curvy 3D. I tried a few methods but …

2D to 3D Laigter to Curvy 3D Dragon Read More

You can read about the development notes for this update on the official Krita website here. This is a major new feature release which includes the following highlights: Even more …

Krita 5.1.0 Released – The Art Squirrel Read More

Continuing from my last article I will write about what else I did on my break. I was using Curvy 3D and Blender with a mouse because I didn’t have …

What I did on my break: Part 2 Fairys Read More

Hello to any readers, I have some more things to talk about to do with digital art this month. I’ve reluctantly started another Twitter (I know it is X now …

Resource Roundup and Art News late October Read More

Hello there, earlier this year 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 …

Sculpting a Dragon – Art Squirrel Read More

This is the last post I will make here just as a summing up of things I was researching before I came to that decision last month. I’ve decided to …

Resource Round-up Read More

I saw that ugocapeto3d had mentioned MiDaS v 3.1 recently which is a AI monocular depth estimation tool. It creates depth maps using a single 2D image which is pretty …

Depth maps for 2D images using MiDaS Read More

Oguguo ears is an artist who invites us to slow down. Based in Brooklyn but rooted in Lagos, Nigeria, Urechi moves fluidly between digital illustration, textile craft, architectural design, and …

Rest, Connection, and Craft: Graphic Artist Urechi Oguguo Read More

Things feel a bit sparse lately when it comes to digital art related things I can mention in the resource roundup, but if I find anything else during Autumn I …

Autumn 2022 Resource Roundup – The Art Squirrel Read More