The nerd artist life. Hard to describe, I do draw with gel pens and I do fancy a bullet nose marker. The great god Harold and the Purple Crayon (they made a movie, well a cartoon) would be proud.
My tools consist of an XP era desktop and an engineering laptop. They are overworked but hang in there quite well. The laptop has a removable graphics card. It has gone black 5 times and 5 times I have revived it by baking it in the oven. A trick I learned from British PC Techs on U-tube. I also have a 8" tablet that use to be a phone and has no flash for the camera replacing the 10" tablet I can't fix. Android apps are handy.
I am a Linux guy. Nuff said. While the programs it runs are limited in commercial success they excel in freeware, join the league of remarkable programmer projects, open source and sorry it also comes in Mac and Windows versions software.
I know you know about GIMP the not really Photoshop and Inkscape the no where near Illustrator so I won't go there. By the way they work fine for me and they are both free.
I will touch on Sweet Home 3D. It is a JAVA program and it draws your walls in 3d while you draw the floor plan. Then you can add doors and windows and furnishings, trees, cars and whatever else many people have contributed in the way of models. You can alter material colors, map patterns and it does alpha channels. If you need clear or tinted glass, hey.
Then it does rendering from fuzzy and flat to reflections and lights, shadows. I have found that if you design a thing in say SketchUp, you can export DAE/OBJ/KMZ, you can import it into Sweet Home3d and it will be right at home, sweet pun. It will also do walk through movies. Now who said you can do just houses, "this is the construct............." Anyway even though I am not Syd Mead, here is a picture of my artwork in a modeled space and both are my artwork.
And also a sea container studio with windows inspired by Boba Fett's cloner facility apartment. You could model scenes and throw in some 3d characters.
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