It’s been a few years now since I did some special Anti VDay pics. I do so love that particular holiday…the tears, the rejection and/or abandonment, the utter loneliness people feel… It’s all my dark heart craves!
So here are this year’s offerings to the gods Pain and Pleasure. Crappy Suckentine’s Day, y’all!
P.S. Don’t ask me about that chat thing, I have no clue. My brain is so fried lately that I can’t grasp what it needs from me. If it’s not blood, sweat and tears but some sort of coding mania, it’ll have to wait til I’m not foggy! Life is!!
Remember our sweet Pip from years gone by? Well guess who popped into my Picarto Stream last night?!?! And guess what he was wondering about…? How to talk to lil ol’ ME again! Squeeee! So, as you could guess, I’m now working on bringing back a lovely chat box for the actual blog. I get that people get busy, and not everyone can come in and talk to me in the stream – even though it’s free to join, doh! So maybe this lil return to chatting will help us both. You’ll inspire me with your hot and sexy ideas. I’ll make your sexy ideas into do-able requests. People will love the joining of our minds and libidos, and everybody cums in the end! *smooch*
I recognized most of the ships except the ones from anime, like Cowboy Beebop, which I know is culturally relevant but…meh…
I thought the Axiom would have been bigger. And I had no idea the Arrival Shell was bigger than the Enterprise! What?? I also don’t recognize the Tohoku Class ship from Firefly – ?
I JUST received a notice from Renderosity.com that one of my most favourite artists, Maddelirium, has uploaded new pics. Well she does that, that’s great.
But when I went to look, I saw she put a link to her YOUTUBE channel in the description!!
You have GOT to go right now and SUBSCRIBE! This girl is LEGIT! THIS is fantasy art…so beautiful!!
Ohhhh the one with the crows….*drools* She’s so inspiring. I struggle to find the time to do work like hers, to even gain the knowledge to come close to it. I don’t get paid to, I don’t feel like I have the luxury of ‘art’ for the sake of it. I know art can make money in adult stuff, which is kinda sexy and kinky and so my thing anyway. But I sure wish I could just…spend time making images like this…*dreamy sigh*
This girl deserves much more attention on YouTube than she’s getting, y’all. FIX IT!
Ah well. I still did some painting today, trying to paint hair. Ugh. After awhile it literally looks like I’m trying to mold life from the clay the gods used to make men! Blech. It’s like putty. How do you make putty in an awesome program like Photoshop?? Leave it to me…
I was trying to update my headers for here. I put up a werewolf one that I really liked, it’s kinda weird to look at but I was using it as a tester, and once I got it up well…I felt bad for the lil wolfy guy. I didn’t want to take him down!
I put one up of American Woman in her alter ego of Megyn Wolf, one of my Metrobay Comix superheroines. I really like how her lighting turned out fresh out of Poser, but I still wanted to fiddle with some of Ron’s Angel Dust. So purty.
And I did one of the newer V4/G4 DireLilith. It’s a small series I put on the Aphotic Inferno Patreon account. Here on the header, I kinda feel like it’s me saying, “Do you want classy or do you want cunt? Cuz we got them both!” Haha!
Feel free to share your thoughts <3 And stop by and see me while I’m hard at work making you hard…
So. I figured I’d try to do some learnings on Tuesdays. Hopefully it’ll become a habit!
Here’s my starting image, I forget when I even made this baby!!
I did three of them so clearly I was up to something. I called them ‘devil form’ so…guess I was feeling demonic?
I decided cuz of her pose and handbag that 1, she was going out on the town in her new form, and 2, she was posing for a pic! I found a nice night life background of city lights, and decided to learn a few things. I learned how to import a friggin 3D OBJ file – waaaaah? We can do that?? Yep, we sure can! I imported a random bridge file and couldn’t find it at first. Then realized that was because it was behind the girl, and had no texture. I gave it a texture, figured out the controls for moving an object around, scaling it, etc., and it came out well enough. I put it under her with a basic stone type texture, and realized she didn’t have a shadow…
So I used this – Cast Shadow in Photoshop Tutorial – very happy with the skill level and techniques I learned, which always end up being applied to future pics too. That’s cool, did the shadow, didn’t use the mask technique because the shadow was pretty much set to where I’d want it.
Then I did a bit of lighting. There’s this whole light room thing in Photoshop now, I gave that a whirl. In the past it’s been really bitchy with me, as in I would go into it and it would freeze the program, or no tools would show up, or I couldn’t manipulate any of the lights. Today, probably because a few years have passed, it worked out. Hoping that is because of fixes and drivers, etc.
Then I started thinking I ought to make her look a bit nicer. I did Darthhell’s method of copying parts of her skin and pasting them into new layers, then using Screen as the layer mode, then blurring them with Gaussian Blur. I wish I could make an action for that, so it would be a one click option – but each skin section on any pic I’ve worked on tends to require a different degree of the blur. I tried to focus here on her fleshy bits facing towards this unseen light I had created.
I wanted to paint her hair, and I found this – An Introduction to Painting Realistic Hair in Adobe Photoshop – but when I started reading it, I got this deja vu feeling of being in school. Oh where did the time go, *pretends to look at watch but who wears one anymore*, guess I need to head to bed! Heh, yeah, so I just left her hair as is. I know how I would do it, and I am sharing the tutorial for the hair here for future reference. But it’s not needed for this.
So here’s the final product. I was trying to make it realistic but I gave up and used my good ol’ Darthhell action. That tends to make my images look painted to a degree, but really, I am so done! I finished that comic up earlier so I’m satisfied with my efforts. Plus I used my free time wisely and did the learnings. Yay me! Hope you like this.
