Tutorial: Drawing Tapered Ornaments in Blender

Blender guru and the writer behind an amazing Blender Secrets e-book Jan van den Hemel continues his series of 1-minute tutorials with yet another short lesson that many artists will definitely find useful. This time, Jan has shared an easy technique that you can use to draw perfectly tapered curves, even with a mouse, creating ornament details. The author has explained how to customize a Bezier curve to draw ornaments, how to work with Bevel Depth, how to create symmetrical curves, and more, all of it within just a minute.

Much like other techniques that Jan shares via Twitter and Instagram, this cool method is thoroughly explained in the author's aforementioned e-book Blender Secrets. The book contains more than 500 step-by-step tutorials for both aspiring artists and seasoned veterans provides you with additional steps and info that couldn’t fit in the short videos, and comes with a convenient archive of Jan's fantastic tutorials. You can learn more and get the book here.

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