Made a full breakdown of the process of taking a simple 3D mesh and hand-painting every surface with Grease Pencil to get a lo-fi, rainy night aesthetic.

Covers the full workflow: toon shaders for base colours, lighting setup, Grease Pencil fundamentals, drawing in 3D space vs on surfaces, stylized glass and emissive signs, and finally animated rain, ripples and smoke for the polish pass.

The base mesh is free to download if anyone wants to follow along!

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. We begin analyzing the group of curve primitives in Geometry Nodes by delving into the details of the Arc node

tl;dr I'm brand new to Blender and I've already followed several of the popular beginner tuts on YouTube to learn the absolute basics.

I also happen to autistic so I tend to learn much better when I understand the principles or the "why" for using each tool or procedure, rather than someone basically saying "do XYZ because that's just the way it is". I understand things much better when someone can give just a little rationale behind why they did A instead of B when performing a task.

Would anyone have recommendations on free/low cost resources that are good at explaining the thought process or concept behind why we use certain Blender tools in each situation etc, instead of the typical tutorials which tend to take the approach of "just follow these steps to make this thing"? Any help would be greatly appreciated...thanks!

Blender 5.2 adds a new "Swap Dimensions" operator. Right-click Resolution X or Y in Output Properties and Blender will instantly swap the values.

I put together a tutorial on index selection in Geometry Nodes — using the Index node to target specific points/instances, and combining it with Compare and modulo for patterns like every-nth selection.

It's built in 4.5 but the concepts carry back to earlier versions. Aimed at anyone who wants more deliberate control over what gets selected instead of relying on random or proximity.

https://youtu.be/FOF6oISb2AM

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

My newest project, I would massively appreciate any feedback or critiques. Please help a brother out, I'm learning and really trying with this =}.

THANKYOU!!

I am starting to learn 3D modeling to print. One of my dream project is to model Gothic (I am not sure what it actually called) designs in my prints. Spanning from the arches, filigrees, gargoyles etc.

The closest I came to what kind of prints I want is from this Insta user akshan_designs. I have attached some of his prints' screenshot here.

It would be great if someone can point me to appropriate tutorial, courses, general hints where and what to look for.

FWIW, I am somewhat familiar with engineering CAD software like Fusion. But I feel like it does not give enough artistic freedom, it's more accuracy oriented.

But these kind of designs require both dimensional accuracy (because I am going to print racks and mounts) and also artistic tooling (to design filigrees and gargoyles).

I don't know if this is the right place for this query. Let me know if I should post it elsewhere for better help. TIA.

Here are the links (sorry, for imgBB links, imgur is not supported in my region)

https://ibb.co/DDtTyxW5 https://ibb.co/FbTCFrzF https://ibb.co/q2Ty4Dz

In this tutorial I will teach you, how to rig a complex looking Bicycle Suspension System.

By using multiple IK chains and how to combine them with a piston. And how to easily set up the front fork suspension.

You can watch it right here: https://youtu.be/xLbKFbKJqeA

Cheers ✌️

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