Title: Quiet
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Yaz, Dark
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: I have no idea. This kind of sprung up out of a conversation I was having, and I couldn't drop it. I'm … sufficiently happy with it to stop screwing with it, for now, although I have a suspicion that's only going to last until I see it on an LCD display. I'm pretty sure there's a glitch that I can't see on this monitor, somewhere in all that black.
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Title: Pinup: By the Gate
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Frost
Rating: M (L0 N3 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Naked faerie dude.
Notes: I love Frost's face in this. Kind of reminds me of the Mona Lisa. Got one clean test render with that look and just stopped screwing with his face. *laughs*
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Title: Catlike
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Spook
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Do you own a cat? Nothing you haven't seen.
Notes: I can't make anything look right, today, so here's a cat licking its ass. No, I'm not kidding. Testing out a set of 'natural' cat poses that someone requested in the Freepozitory.
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Title: Lords of Winter – Vergosus
Fandom: Magelight(-ish)
Characters: Vergosus
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Shirtless faerie dude with a glaive.
Notes: The winter series is going poorly. It's difficult to get a bluish cast to the skin without it coming out full-on Andorian. And HSS/UbS is still a pain in my ass. I'm trying to get a grip on which parts affect exactly what colours in the final image. And the fact that very little changes in the preview screen doesn't help much. So, Vergosus looks a little low-contrast, here, and I'm not even in a position to discuss Drost, because I get one half-hour test render, and then the program closes itself. Something about the combination of lights and shaders just hates me, on that one. I'm about to just throw it out and start over, because TWO DAYS of either losing my work or having to recreate the original thing I changed, because I did save before it crashed, and what I saved was garbage… It's not making me happy.
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Title:Â Lords of Summer – Leofwine
Fandom: Magelight(-ish)
Characters: Leofwine
Rating:Â PG (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Shirtless faery dude with a bow.
Notes: "If I miss this shot, Bertie, I'm coming over there and kicking your arse until your grandchildren are born sore." Leof's kind of a dick, but his skill with the bow is legendary. He's probably doing something utterly insane like shooting horseflies at 80 feet, here.
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Title: Lords of Summer – Caedmon
Fandom: Magelight(-ish)
Characters: Caedmon
Rating:Â PG (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Shirtless faery dude.
Notes: Caedmon, despite his taste in clothes, is a scholar. One of the court historians, even. And in this image, he is reminded that people are stupid.
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Title: Lords of Summer – Cuthbert
Fandom: Magelight(-ish)
Characters: Cuthbert
Rating:Â G (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Girly-looking faerie-dude with a sword.
Notes: I never do warm skintones. So, I'm about to do three. Why? Because I can. Because there's no earthly reason not to.
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Title: Cornered
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Morningstar
Rating: T (L0 N2 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: There's a lot of skin.
Notes: So, I finally got an answer to the problem I was having with this one. Twenty frames of animation is the solution to my dynamic clothing glitch. Who'd have thunk? Anyway, all the scrounging for ship parts for the last vampire image put this one in my head. Something something gamma, this probably looks clearer on an LCD display than it does on my CRT.
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Title: Not While I'm Working
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Nox
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: If I shoot this for wall-hanging size, I think I'll do it in 4×5 instead of square. The really ugly parts are toward the outer edges, in the back, but so's some of the really nice stuff, so… I can rearrange things. This is an example of what you're supposed to do with raytracing. Yes, that puff of smoke is actually reflected in three of the cans on the shelf. I've never gotten anything I didn't mean to be a mirror to do that, before, and it's awesome.
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Title: The Artful Archer
Fandom: Magelight
Characters: Ice
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: So, I was working on a series of images a couple months ago, and this one just never looked right. Then I learned some cool stuff. Now it looks a lot better. I debate upping the gamma in Photoshop, just a smidge.
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