For the past month or so, I've been creating a 3D model of a character design that I drew. I'm making it to hopefully be 3D printed, and so far, I've made some great progress. I really like how it looks so far, and I'm nearly done with it- hopefully, I'll be able to work on it at home over Thanksgiving break this week, and maybe even finish it. I've drawn a few inspirations for the design- I only recently redid the spear, which is inspired from the game Dark Souls. I'm really proud of how it turned out, and I think it's a major improvement over my old spear design, which was pretty poorly modeled. I also redid the chestplate, making it look a slightly more detailed, and it looks like it actually fits with the pauldrons, which have also been redone. All I really need to now it the legs, feet, and skirt, and the pedestal on which the figure will stand. I'll then make the cape using the cloth modifier, and finally scale it all to the right size in centimeters. All in all, I'm really excited to see where this goes.
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Up until about a week ago, all my digital art had to be made using a mouse and keyboard. It was clumsy, devalued my already bare-bones art skills, and was just plain uncomfortable to do. However, I recently got the Huion G10T drawing tablet as a birthday gift, and I haven't looked back since. If you didn't know, drawing tablets are tablets that come with a pen or stylus. You connect them to your computer, and it basically turns the pen into a mouse input- moving the pen around the surface of the tablet moves the mouse accordingly. Tapping the pen to the tablet simulates a mouse click. Where this otherwise cumbersome feature turns into a useful one is when you use it with a digital art program- such as Krita, or Photoshop- it makes digital art much, much easier. There are things like pressure sensitivity, which I believe most tablets worth their salt have, and hotkeys on the tablet itself, etc.
The Huion G10T has both of those, with I think ~1,700 levels of pressure sensitivity I think, and a small mousepad and hotkey-able buttons as well. I've been using it for a little bit now, and I love it. I haven't completed a full piece yet, but what I'm working on is coming along well, and there's a noticeable improvement to my other digital pieces already. Combining it with tools built into many art programs, like weighted brushes for instance, makes it that much easier to make professional-looking pieces of digital artwork. I put some of my older digital art below, right next to my first piece being made using this tablet, and I think that the improvement is noticeable already. I can't wait to keep using this great piece of hardware, and see where it takes me. |
AuthorHi! I'm Thomas MacDougall, a sophomore at DSA. Here you can check out my thoughts and recent activities. Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Archives
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