Bulldog in a Doorway

YOU SHALL NOT PASS...unless you give me a dog biscuit...or wait till I take a nap. ... more

by Daniel Eskridge

Title

Bulldog in a Doorway

Artist

Daniel Eskridge

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting

Description

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS...unless you give me a dog biscuit...or wait till I take a nap."

A bulldog lazily sits in the open doorway to an old stone building. He might be guarding the place, or maybe he just thinks it's a comfortable spot to sit in.

This is my latest addition to my dog series. Bulldogs are one of my favorite breeds as the have quite a lot of character. That personality (or should I say dogonality ;) ) really can come out great in art.

To make this, I sculpted a digital model of a bulldog using virtual sculpting software known as Sculptris to both shape and paint him. To give him fur, I used a utility called LookAtMyHair which adds virtual fur to 3d models. LookAtMyHair is a plugin for the 3D application DazStudio. Next I used Poser, another 3d computer application, to load a pre-made model of an old chapel and open it's doors. I imported both the chapel and animal into the scenery building application Vue which I used to render the scene. After touching up the resulting image in GIMP (an open source alternative to photoshop), I used a tool called Impression from Topaz Labs to give it the look of an Impressionist painting.

By the way, if you want to learn more about Topaz Impression, I have a video review of it on Youtube: http://youtu.be/VMp2YH5QAsQ
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS...unless you give me a dog biscuit...or wait till I take a nap."

A bulldog lazily sits in the open doorway to an old stone building. He might be guarding the place, or maybe he just thinks it's a comfortable spot to sit in.

This is my latest addition to my dog series. Bulldogs are one of my favorite breeds as the have quite a lot of character. That personality (or should I say dogonality ;) ) really can come out great in art.

To make this, I sculpted a digital model of a bulldog using virtual sculpting software known as Sculptris to both shape and paint him. To give him fur, I used a utility called LookAtMyHair which adds virtual fur to 3d models. LookAtMyHair is a plugin for the 3D application DazStudio. Next I used Poser, another 3d computer application, to load a pre-made model of an old chapel and open it's doors. I imported both the chapel and animal into the scenery building application Vue which I used to render the scene. After touching up the resulting image in GIMP (an open source alternative to photoshop), I used a tool called Impression from Topaz Labs to give it the look of an Impressionist painting.

By the way, if you want to learn more about Topaz Impression, I have a video review of it on Youtube: http://youtu.be/VMp2YH5QAsQ

Thanks for looking,
Daniel

Uploaded

January 29th, 2015