randym77 posted at 1:22 PM Sun, 14 May 2023 - #4465299

Thanks, Primorge. I really like this one:

Did you have to do anything special with the textures?

No, nothing special. In fact it's best to use just maps plugged straight into the diffuse with no bells and whistles whatsoever in the shaders for most things using maps and comic preview. Depends on what you are doing. Just like anything it comes down to personal preferences, just experiment and see what pleases your own eye.

The thing is that I come from a hand drawing/comics/ traditional media background, so things looking like they were done in Poser doesn't bother me. If it did I just wouldn't use Poser or 3d in general. I don't see any reason to try and fool any one into thinking something was hand inked, I use this style in Poser because I like this look in Poser (amongst others including PBR)

I use 3d because I enjoy modeling, morphing, and texturing. The images are simply the end artifact of a process not really the total intent. Frankly I'm so jaded from 'looking at' art images that it's really not that interesting to me any more. Making the stuff, the process, I still find very satisfying though. I guess that sounds pretty weird. Or maybe like enjoying cooking a meal but not really caring about eating it.

Here's a some hand inked/drawn things on paper, some photoshop gradients added much later, here and there. This stuff is a few decades old now...

Pen and ink, photoshop gradients

Pen and ink, pantone markers, white gouache on paper

Pencil on sketch paper

Pen and ink, photoshop assembly.