Aug 312012
 

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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Aug 282012
 

Title:  Lords of Summer – Leofwine
Fandom: Magelight(-ish)
Characters: Leofwine
Rating:  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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Aug 232012
 

Title: Centaur Archer
Fandom: N/A
Characters: some centaur dude
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: A centaur with a bow. If either of these is an offensive idea, you're so in the wrong place.
Notes: Totally screwing around. The new centaur thread just went up on the DAZ forums, and there were no images, yet. Now, there's an image. Woo.
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Aug 222012
 

Title: Son of a Lord
Fandom: (That picturebook…)
Characters: F-listMalachai Schade, his dad
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: I've been screwing with this for a month. It still bugs the crap out of me, but a little less so, now. I'm taking suggestions on what's wrong with it, because it's gotten to where I really can't tell, but I know it's not right.
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Aug 212012
 

Title: Starshippy
Fandom: ST: TOS (Zahvan t'Masu)
Characters: Spock, Larue (OC), Starek (OC)
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None.
Notes: I love Starek's face in this. He looks like he's going to barf. "Oh, what? Are we really doing this? Are we really doing this on subspace? Fffff… They're going to kill my parents. Are you sure my face is blurred out? Really?" And Larue's all, "Don't worry, honey, if he throws up on your uniform, I'll get the drycleaning." But really, I've half-finished like three or four things, and everything looks like ass, including this, but at least this I can write off as 'starships have shitty lighting anyway'.
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Aug 172012
 

Title: Experiments in Dragon – 03&04
Fandom: N/A
Characters: some kid, some dragon
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: Finished building the wing templates, so now the wings *gasp* match the rest of the dragon! Also, yay for make pattern in Photoshop. pattern-filling scales is so much easier than trying to paste things so they line up.
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Aug 172012
 

Title: Experiments in Dragon – 01&02
Fandom: N/A
Characters: some kid, some dragon
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: I've done… pretty much no work with dragons, but I have heard that there may be someone interested in getting me to do some work involving a dragon, so I figured I should see what I can do, and get the texture templates sorted out and all. These first ones are using a pair of platemail shaders, wings from DragonBreath's dragonhearts textures, and Gemologica on the horns and claws. The only texture template I've successfully sectioned, so far, is the eye texture, so those blue eyes are all mine, not that you can really make them out, at this size.
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