Quote - @ monkeycloud... well, the themes and arrangements in your renders are certainly fantastical. Your visual execution, however, is entrenched firmly in the poser photorealist camp. I guess it never occured to you that by using so many instantly recognizable BB shaders and Rendo Poser Forum photorealist techniques that you might in a way be slathering a coat of homogeneity over your imagery. This is not an insult to your work, which in general I consider to be top notch in terms of ambition and Poser technique... I do have some critical views of being so easily able to detect this or that veneer. BUT, I guess you are going with the best available and so...

He he... actually, yes, it did occur to me... that was kind of my point I suppose.

I think that element of recognition gives some leverage, to the crowbar, in the context the work is being presented in.

That's part of the source, of my use of the term hyper-realism, I suppose. I could equally, or perhaps more correctly, have gone for using the term Poser-realism.

I see something almost Baroque (probably what I mean) in my almost certainly excessive, obsessive application of many of these materials, for other-than-realist ends.

I also, I should note, tend to revel in being an epitomy :)

The above statements and my previous post may, of course, be merely a retrospectively cited justification for picking up the prettiest paint colours I saw in front of me and pouring them, apparently at random, onto my badly primed canvas. He he ;)

But I got away with this type of thing at art college... at least in the sense that I graduated with a reasonable grading... so why not here?