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Bulldog in a Doorway

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"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: youtu.be/VMp2YH5QAsQ

Tools Used:
Sculptris, to sculpt the bulldog: www.IntrovertArtist.com/Sculpt
A Curious Chapel, the building: introvertartist.com/Chapel
Poser, to open the doors of the chapel: www.IntrovertArtist.com/Poser
Daz Studio, used LookAtMyHair plugin to give the dog fur : www.IntrovertArtist.com/Daz
Vue, to assemble the scene and render: www.IntrovertArtist.com/Vue
GIMP, to touch things up:  www.IntrovertArtist.com/Gimp
Topaz Impression, to give it the painted look: www.IntrovertArtist.com/Impres…

Thanks for looking!
Daniel Eskridge

P.S.

Follow me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheArtOfDanie…
Also, I have a Zazzle store: www.zazzle.com/artofdanieleskr…
and, of course, a blog: www.introvertartist.com
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wr515's avatar
that's a really hairy bulldog!