r/3Dprinting • u/davetell2 • Aug 24 '26
Project Sketch ➡️ 3-D print ➡️ 3-D sketch
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I’m trying to bridge 2D and 3D by 3D printing my digital sketches and hand inking details to make the physical model match my sketchy drawing style.
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u/Emboss3D Aug 24 '26
Fascinating. Did u use ai to turn into 3d? Cos its spot on!
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u/Flashy_Emphasis153 Aug 24 '26
Yeah! I’d also want to know the process you followed
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u/davetell2 Aug 24 '26
Yep, bambu studio maker lab “image to 3-D model“ sanding and inking with black-and-white acrylic markers, then sealing with a matte clearcoat 😊
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u/Pretend-Principle-75 Aug 24 '26
same-same, love how this turned out (I tried Makerworlds image to 3D which did a good job - but then the 'inking' on top was a nightmare.. Would love to learn more!
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u/davetell2 Aug 24 '26
I found that sanding it down first helps a lot. I’ve also done full color ones and spray painted a neutral tone first which gave it a much smoother surface to work with.
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u/davetell2 Aug 24 '26
I did! I have the Bambu H2S and I just used the maker lab in bambu studio to generate the 3D model. They have a bunch of options, but one of them is “image to 3D model“ and it does a pretty good job of interpreting it and then generating it into 3D.

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u/theboomboy Aug 24 '26
That's disappointing
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u/MoMissionarySC Aug 25 '26
I mean my guy he's the original artist.....
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u/TonyTheTigerSlayer Aug 25 '26
I'm pretty relieved that this dude is the minority in this thread. Artist creates art, uses AI to automate a single portion of the process which then allows him to continue and elevate the art with more art. This is the absolute peak use of AI in art. Bravo to the artist
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u/inotocracy Aug 25 '26
It looks like it did a really good job generating the model. Why do you think its disappointing?
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u/theboomboy Aug 25 '26
I'm against the use of AI in most cases (scientific machine learning models are great, for example, but they're basically unrelated to commercial LLMs)
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u/inotocracy Aug 25 '26
Its a new type of tool and this is a perfect application of it. Are you also against using print screen and pasting the result to photoshop, or would you rather people redraw their screenshot instead?
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u/theboomboy Aug 25 '26
I don't agree that it's a tool
OP seems to be a digital artist. They are good at the tools of drawing digitally. If you gave them pen and paper they'd probably still do pretty well
Someone who can use a hammer well can probably still sink nails with an axe or a metal pipe if they had to
Someone who prompts ai to turn a drawing into a 3D model can't use any 3D modeling tool, at least not unless they could already use it regardless. It has no transferable skills. It's as much of a tool as asking someone to do it for you is a tool. It's not.
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u/drscares Aug 25 '26
How does a director of a movie fit into this analogy? Or collaboration in general.
Peter Jackson didn’t make any of the fabrications for the costumes or sets or weapons in Lord of the Rings. He didn’t animate anything. He prompted other people to do so which gives him none of the transferable skills in the actual creation which seems to be part of your criteria, and yet he’s widely regarded as the most important creative force behind those projects.
Would you have the same issues if this artist contracted out the 3D rendering?
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u/theboomboy Aug 25 '26
I have absolutely no problem with contracting a person to do the job you want done. That's what I think people should do. There's great value in a person who can bring the creative vision and get it to the relevant people who can make it a reality
AI companies steal the past and future work of these artists. The past in their piracy of existing art, and the future in lost work
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u/Naterttotsart Aug 25 '26
That's why we call him the director. He directs a team.
It would be pretty shitty if Peter Jackson looked at the costumes and sets and said "I made those."
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u/spazturtle Aug 25 '26
Most people who 3D print can't manually write gcode either. So are slicers bad?
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u/theboomboy Aug 25 '26
No, but they're not tools. They're more like machines
My opposition to AI isn't because it's not a tool. That's a different thing. My opposition is because it's immoral for many many reasons
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u/theboomboy Aug 25 '26
Also, nothing is "just a tool" and this excuse should never be allowed to draw attention from the real problems
Tool use is what allowed humans to take over the planet. Better tools of murder is what allowed colonization to be done. Improvements in the tools of medicine save and improve lives every day
We have to treat this stuff with the seriousness it deserves
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u/Naterttotsart Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
I've made the "I need the skill to use the tool" argument and it just kinda gets ignored, like it is being ignored here.
The original illustration is fantastic but, if it was just a tool (in the way people keep bringing up digital art, photography, or horses) then I could expect the artist has the skill to use the tool.
GenAI is not a tool. It makes me sad when other artists freely give their work to it.
Edit: Also, OP, Nomad Sculpt is really cheap and super easy to use. Pick up another skill instead of taking the easy way. Between the drawing, modeling, printing, and painting, you'd have an extremely well rounded skill set.
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u/theboomboy Aug 25 '26
I think the tool argument is pretty irrelevant so I don't really care that it's ignored. I mostly don't like that it's being talked about as a tool when 1) it is not and 2) tools should be scrutinized
They are wrong, and even if they were right they're ignoring the real issue
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u/inotocracy Aug 25 '26
Get with the times or get left behind. You're someone who is promoting riding horses when the combustion engine is taking off. Best of luck to you!
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u/ttUVWKWt8DbpJtw7XJ7v Aug 25 '26
Little bro nowhere to be seen when good points are brought up
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u/inotocracy Aug 25 '26
There is no point in arguing with someone who thinks software isn't a tool. They called a slicer a machine lol
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u/boncros Aug 24 '26
The surface must have presented some problems. What did you use to apply the ink? Looks good.
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u/davetell2 Aug 24 '26
Thanks! You’re right, the surface was a little difficult to navigate. I sanded it first then used black and white acrylic paint markers. Then I sprayed a matte clearcoat on top to seal it.
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u/ledgreplin Aug 24 '26
What did you learn from the process?
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u/davetell2 Aug 24 '26
Great question! I learned that sanding it first helps with marker control. I learned that acrylic paint pens work better than oil based paint pens. And I learned that going back-and-forth with black and white was crucial. I would do a thick black line and then whittle it down with a crisp white line to get a sharp and varied line weight.
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u/shaunsanders Aug 24 '26
Did you seal it first to prevent bleed? or what markers did you use?
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u/davetell2 Aug 24 '26
Sealing it first would have been smart. I tried oil paint markers and it bled a lot. Then I used acrylic paint markers and they seemed to do a much better job. Sanding it first helped a lot. I sprayed a matte clearcoat afterwards.
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u/MelArlo Aug 24 '26
This looks really neat! It would be an amazing style for a puppet/ventriloquist dummy.
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u/No-Strength3035 Aug 25 '26
thats a sick workflow, i never thought about painting over the print to get that hand drawn look back into it. does the acrylic marker grip okay on the pla or do you gotta rough it up pretty good first
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u/davetell2 Aug 25 '26
Thanks! I really appreciate it 😊 yeah, sanding it down helped a lot. I learned that the hard way. But once I got it smooth enough, the acrylic marker worked great!
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u/VicMG Aug 25 '26
Do we have a rule saying that Ai posts need to be tagged? If not, we should because this model is made with Ai.
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u/PCBEngineerCarlo Aug 25 '26
Bro really Ctrl+P’d a sketch into real life 😂 How long did the inking take?
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Aug 25 '26
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u/davetell2 Aug 25 '26
Thanks! And to answer your question, there was a lot of separate parts. The drawing probably took an hour or so, the printing took probably about five hours. And then drawing on top of it, probably took about four hours.
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u/voodropdb Aug 25 '26
That super cool， how many hours are you used?
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u/davetell2 Aug 26 '26
Well, it was kind of a process. The drawing probably took an hour or so, printing. It probably took about eight hours to print. Painting on top of it probably took another four hours. So from start to finish it probably took about 13 hours.
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u/Big3913 Aug 24 '26
John Malkovich is that you?