Transparent pixels count as a dark background for the filter. The result will also change depending on whether your image has a dark background or light background. It takes a little while to output the result (depending on how fast your computer is). G’MIC Artistic Stylize: pencil, charcoal and pastelĬombining ZBrush and G’MIC Stylize filter Hand Made Textures for G’MIC Artistic Stylize Tips on using my pencil textures with G’MIC I have written some articles on my blog about how to use this filter and change the settings to get better results with the pencil textures I made.ĭigital Pencil Drawing using Krita and G’MIC You don’t have to use the filter but I thought it might save time to use it in this case with a 3D render.

The result makes a good starting base for the pencil drawing I will work on. The one I chose uses my handmade pencil shade textures. In some case’s adjusting the levels to better define light to dark may help in getting better results.įor this project I started with a 3D render image from Blender and then ran the G’MIC stylize filter on it. It works on value scales, so it won’t work well with flat value images.ĭepending on how the 3D render is lit the shading result will change. The main use case for me is for stylizing 3D renders but this could be used with any type of image. One of my past experiments was with some pencil textures I made and used with a filter in G’MIC (which comes ready installed with Krita but you can get it for other software as well) called artistic stylize which I discovered was useful for creating a starting base of textured pencil from images. I make the mask image in blender by using the compositor workspace and adding this node setup: There may be better ways to do this but this was good enough in this case. I rendered out an image using Blender as well as an image suitable for a transparency mask which I will use later. For this mini project I started with a 3D sculpt for the frog using ZBrush and 3D coat.Īny 3D software you use is fine as long as you are happy with it and this is optional if you are not interested in the G’MIC stage, I’ll go into the hand drawing stage later in this article.

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