I’ve made a few posts now about using Blender and I have to say I’m SOOOO glad I started using it. It’s taken my graphics capabilities to a whole new level. I thought I was doing pretty good with Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Flash, Fireworks and others, but now that I’ve started using Blender, it’s SOOOO much easier to create great looking pieces of art.
I’m still working on learning how to do animation and what to do with the 3D models after I create them. For a brief description of the differences, take for example the following drawing of my brother. He drew this as a concept for a piece of jewelery. I wanted to draw it on the computer but none of the programs I was using before could accurately handle the 3D part of the overlaying part of the Celtic knot in the middle.
I knew that in order to properly do this, I would need a 3D model. This is why I started looking for a good 3D program and found Blender. A month later (while participating in the biggest joint military exercise in the world and planning/conducting multiple rehearsals for a visit by the Secretary of the Navy which was canceled 3 hours before he was supposed to be here) I can finally say I have made the model of the drawing I started Blender for.
