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I would be lying if I said I hadn't done this.
I am generally doing it less often though...
nm..will see myself out;)
I didn't even see what you posted, so no worries.
WELP. In the occasion of this being Spooky Season, I did something a little horrible.
Or maybe a lot horrible.
James Bennington Throttlewood, usually called JB by people who know him. He's Edgar's second cousin, and yes... he IS a human-pig hybrid.
Well, they do say men are pigs. But in some cases it seems a little more literal.
We'll not talk about poisoned M&Ms, but JB is proud to be a pig. He originates from a parallel dimention (similar to Veil in your story) where magical beings and humans mingle together in the 80s cartoon version of the middle ages. JB's family are pig farmers, but instead of raising piglets for meat they train them to sniff out truffles and other valuable things found in nature. After having done something to really, and I mean really cheese off the Queen of a local Fairy Court, JB got exiled to another dimention for seven years. He asked the Queen if he could bring with him a group of piglets he was raising, and she obliged. On arriving in his new home world, JB discovered that his piglets had become four little boys - human except for having portruding noses and pointed ears. Then he discovered that his own face had gained the same features! The wicked Fairy Queen had played a trick on him, by splicing his DNA with that of the piglets.
But she had also given him a new family.
As for why JB's relative Edgar also has a flat, upturned nose, well.... He may not be unacquainted with a certain Fairy Queen himself.
Wow, it's been a long time with no activity here on my part. I actually don't think I've ever been gone for that long before. Working on a book project, and being hooked on a retro video game, just stole my time. ANYwho, I was feeling the urge to dial some peeps again, and decided to be ambitious. Maybe, just maybe, I could finally succeed in creating a passing model of Annie's sister Natalie. You know what, I think I did! Have a super low-effort render.
Now I need to catch up on friends' threads!
This is another render that came to be almost by accident. I usually light everything with HDRIs, but I was looking at pictures in the gallery done by peeps who actually understand lighting, and I went in with copycat intentions. But then I noticed how nicely the moon reflected in her eyes, and I said "Nevermind, I'mma do a TigerAnne classic."
I spent way too much time making a non-descript background. Then I rendered the scene four times, with tiny adjustments. Finally I slapped a lot of different filters on the one that came out marginally best, and uploaded the two versions I liked best after comparing them all. The model is Natalie once again, wearing the same shirt even. She's still a work in progress.
Hashtag NoFilter.
Is it strand-based hair? if so add more seed to it I use at least about 10,000 seed for a super head of hair, might be much but it looks good in the end. Ur art is good, and funny, If your judging it on appearance, it's 99% in the lighting, adjust lighting and you can turn any of ur art into daz masterpieces, but they still are masterpieces, not all artists have the same views.
I don't think so. It's the Flora Hair by Windfield. If a hair product is strandbased it usually says in the description. I think it's fibermesh with really good textures.
Well, thank you!
Thank you again!!
Just a example about what I said about lighting, your picture above, with different lighting...
Last year around this time, I posted some AI generated Halloween art. Someone asked if I'd painted the pictures myself, and I had to admit that nope, my manual art skill level is pretty basic. So with that, I decided that this year I would do some Halloween inspired digital paintings, with no AI other than what's built into the program I'd be using. I'll be trying to finish one picture per day in October. This is not the official Drawloween list of prompts. Sam and me considered it for ten seconds, and decided that it was too specific and complicated. We made our own list instead, with very general prompts.
I'm using Rebelle 5 Pro, which I got for 10 bucks on sale some time last year.
Day 1: Jack-O-Lantern. I started off with something very simple. For this one I didn't even bother using layers.
Day 2: Branchy Trees. After deciding to use layers because I can, I got way more ambitious. That mini tree in the foreground took much more time and effort than I had planned.
Day 3: Sheet Ghost. I kept this one really simple, because I learned my lesson.
Day 4: Cartoon Witch. I didn't actually learn my lession. This isn't the real Day 4 picture, because that one became a whole project I had no chance of finishing in a day. Instead you get to look at this simplified version I did just so I could say I had finished something today.
Day 5: Black Scaredy Cat. He's seen some things. They were in the pumpkin patch. In the pumpkin patch are scary things.
Day 7: Skeleton. Nothing spooky, just an x-ray of people dancing. People with very strange physical proportions. Day 6 is taking a bit longer than planned, because I got complicated again.
Day 8: Frickin Bats, Y'all! If you know, you know.
Day 9: Glowing Eyes. In the depths of night, nothing has colour. Except the eyes.
Day 10: Cauldron and/or Witch Brew. I traced this one. No cap.
Day 11: Cobwebs. This one is the phone-it-in level of effort I intended to put into all of them.
Day 12: Werewolf. I started painting a much more realistic wolf, with more colours and many more layers, but then I started getting a bit sick with a cold so that version isn't done yet. Like the witch, this is a simplified remake. Why do I make things complicated?
Day 13: Cemetery or Graveyard. Is there a real difference between those two, or are they just different words for the same thing? Anyway, I was sick in bed that day, so it's on "Coming Soon" status.
Day 14: Haunted House. Can you tell I gave up on this one? I hate drawing houses, so much! If you view it in full size, you can see a tiny skull in the flower.
Day 15: Zombie. You can't have a Halloween list without a zmobbie. Not really my favourite creature, but it gave me less attitude than most of my previous subjects. If you think he looks a bit like the spaceship captain from Mouthwashing after he ate asteroid sandwich, it's not completely accidental. (No pun intended, because it wasn't an accident that the spaceship crashed.) I watched JackSepticEye's playthrough of it a few days ago.
Day 16: Pizza Nightmare. This pizza IS the nightmare. Sam, the friend I'm doing Drawloween (and many, many other projects) with, wanted to do a collab. She painted the cheese, batwings, candy corn and eyeballs. I perpetrated the rest. We won't be starting a cooking channel together.
Day 17: String Lights and Autumn Leaves. The Halloween aesthetic doesn't have to be gorey and grotesque. I'm not great at painting foliage either, so I decided to do what a painter would, and make it all abstract. Behold the abstractest leaves since The House Of. (Which I haven't read, am not planning on reading, and haven't found in good audio format.)
Day 18: Cryptid. So it's no secret that I love cryptids, and that my favourite one is the thylacine. But thylacines aren't very scary, badly mounted taxidermy is. (Not that there aren't badly stuffed taz tigers, but you know.) Since it's a more obscure cryptid than Bigfoot and Nessie, this guy probably requires a bit of an explanation. This is Ringdocus, a canine which was shot in Montana in the 1880s after having hunted geese at the Hutchins family farm. The body was given to a local taxidermist named Joseph Sherwood, who did it dirty and claimed it was an unknown species of canine. Right now I can't find a source on who it was who named it Ringdocus, but it may have been Sherwood, who also ran a small museum. A catchy name makes an exhibit more exciting than a note saying "Wolf, I just can't stuff'em," we have to think. In 1995, a guy named Lance Foster read about the poor dead animal. He contacted Loren Coleman, who's pretty much the rockstar of cryptozoology, and told him he thought maybe it was a Shunka Warakin, a nasty critter from Ioway mythology that preys on dogs. The current owners of the mount don't want it DNA tested, though. It's probably a wolf, or maybe a dog-hybrid, but a good mystery that isn't hurting anyone shouldn't have to die. The horrible mounting job is most of the reason this animal is internet famous today. Well, that's the official explaination for its appearance, anyway. I, personally, would love to think that this is how the majestic Shunka Warakin looks while gloriously alive in its natural environment.
I love the Halloween paintings! They're so cute and whimsical!
Aww, thanks!
Yeah, so. About my artistic attempts, and stuff. I think I'll return to rendering sometime next week. Painting was fun in the beginning, but eventually it became a chore. I started realising that I can actually paint some pretty nifty stuff, with all the brushes and paint types and layers, but it takes time. I'm a noob, I need to learn. Anything I push out in the couple of hours at night when I sit down to paint is going to look like a child's drawing, and that's not what I want to make. (See: Haunted House entry.) It's not going to be art anyone wants to look at, and I won't learn anything from it. Yes, it's all my fault for making a list of prompts that got increasingly more complicated!
I still want to try completing all 31 prompts, but it won't be by Halloween! Maybe I'll have worked my way through it by next October, and by then have picked up enough tips and tricks to be able to speed paint and simplify the process. My buddy Sam has painted some pretty amazing stuff this month. I'll ask her permission to post at least some of them, because they really deserve to be seen.
Our sexpot Edgar is back. He's got new materials and a new profession. Ed's always wanted to be a pub landlord, for many very valid and some more questionable reasons. Now he has his own little EdBar. At least, that's what it's known as for short. It's full, official name is Edgar's Ghosts and Folklore Pub. The gimmick, and main source of entertainment, is that people gather there to share spooky tales.
The inspiration for this idea came from listening to a podcast called Mysteries and Monsters, which is hosted by a guy who used to actually manage pubs.
Liranda, our Queen of Gothic Sorrow and Silent Despair, helps us do a ligthing test.