Aye, I'm sorry it took me so long to get back in here AND come up with something for us to slave over for a month. Thanks to everyone who enetered and posted comments and votes last month, it's not necessary to have alot of people in on this, but it can make it more exciting! This last month has taught me some amazing things, and I've lost a lot... Still, there is spirit-flow and many lessons to be learned from LOSS. This month I'd like to challenge everyone to produce an emotional image of something LOST. A lost relic, a lost artifact, or maybe just something you loved and still love that is gone from you. May all such things return to us as the Wheel grinds on...

Cool images so far, from both of you! Very atmospheric, Tresamie...

I messed up just so everone knows mom was 92 not 82 :O)

I like this one Kix nice texture on the bones :O)

Thanks, I posted this image in the regular Carrara gallery. It's been rolling around in my head for over a year or so. I just never really decided to sit down and crunch it out. The hand took me about 2 hours to build. I have a full scale plastic human skeleton here at the house so I fished him out of the halloween stuff last night and built the model from his/her (?) hand. This is actually the hand of the main character of a book I'll write someday (yeah, sure). Fortunately for me, the GI rendering engine in Carrara helped my texture look a little more grainy than the original design. I ran it with low settings and it did come out cool. Weird image. Everytime I cook up something like this, my wife reconsiders how well she knows me. Thanks, -Kix

ROFL tell her she will never figure you out,you guys always keep us guessing.

A little slim on the number of entries.. but not on the talent.... But, it's almost April, so we gotta get underway on picking one winner from the entries here. Good luck everyone!!

LOL let me see ahh 3 points to Kixum 2 points to Sharkx19 1 point for SndCastie

I'll give 3 points to SndCastie 2 points to tresamie 1 point to kixum Entries are excellent. It's a tough subject to tackle.

3 points to SndCastie, lots of work there! 2 points to Kixum, again, it looks tedious... 1 point to Tresamie, good to see such an advanced scene from you! Of course, thanks Shark for entering, I really didn't mean to choose such an obscure topic this month, and ran out of time to work on my own entry... Good luck!

I don't think it was obscure. I think it is tough because it can reflect an emotion many of us having a hard time dealing with. I commend the artists who took on the task. :) Having few entries doesn't mean it was a bad topic...just more of a challenge.

yes a very hard time dealing with the this kind of emotion it was a great challenge thank you for doing it :O)

3 points SandCastle 2 points Kixum 1 point Sharkx19

3 points SandCastle 2 points Sharkx19 1 point Tresamie

3 points SandCastle 2 points Kixum 1 point Tresamie

First off, as Dialyn pointed out.. the number of entries isn't important, it's the quality of the work submitted.. and all of you continue to impress and improve!! So.. onto the moment you've all been waiting for: Tresamie & Sharkx19 - 5 points Kixum - 10 points And running away with the lead: SndCastie - 16 points. Congrats SndCastie... please pust a new thread with April's challenge. :)

Good job, all. And congratulations SndCastie. Well deserved and heart felt. :)

Thank you all will post something tonight after work :O)