Hi all 🙂 I am at one of those artistic judgement stages where I am just fiddling to see how things go. I’ve added a banner on a wall using one of my bought textures (one of Ron’s Background Images and Textures). I also added a plain orange carpet for the length of the corridor. I am still uncertain about that colour. Also, at the top of the stairs, in
Just a quick note about my most recent step. I said that I wanted some shields on the walls. So I designed one in Inkscape using the first part of the
Hi all. Just a quickie.
Time to give my textures a little depth. Again I would like to thank those of you who have given me advice on my journey into this world. 🙂 If you have read my previous articles you will have seen that I created the following texture from a photo of my bathroom floor: Then I slapped it down onto the floor of my scene, much like gluing a colour photocopy
This post is intended for people who want to try to make something in a 3D computer package but feel that it’s all a bit overwhelming. I know how you feel. I do – I promise. Blender, for example, can be awfully frightening when you first power it up. Way too many controls. Sweet Home 3D (introduced to me by one of my friends here) is such a better starting
Hi all. You can probably find dozens of posts online that will tell you how to make textures. Here’s another one. But I won’t tell you how to suck eggs (not too much). Instead, I will show you just what I did and (for those new to doing this as some of you have suggested in your comments) how I am convinced that even making your own textures is pretty
Tonight I constructed the basics of a very limited stage for my aforementioned picture.
Hi all, I’m just sharing my intentions with you. Normally my art involves very little planning. I just play till something nice appears. Today I want to actually plan a picture and share the entire process with you. As I want to challenge myself on a few things, this will take a few weeks. My goals with the picture are: to have dramatic lighting (think Caravaggio or Film Noir) to
Hi, This is a new picture that I have created with DAZ Studio. I call it Seduction. It came about accidentally. I was actually just playing with having multiple different coloured spotlights hitting different figures (so each figure here has about three lights hitting it)
At the age of 13 I was told that I would be blind by 21. That was in 1977 and obviously I can still see. Well
