Alright, so let's see - who is Michelle? My full name is Michelle Natascha and I am quite a usual 28-year old Chihuahua mommy from Germany. I suppose that this sounds as if I really like dogs - and yes, that is true. Little Tico is even climbing over my keyboard and myself as I am writing this.
I've been drawing, painting and trying out all sorts of creative things for as long as I can remember, but my true love in all of this is writing. Being a P&P role-player has made me write quite a lot - starting from my own fantasy worlds to short stories and whole books. And it is really funny, that all of this has introduced me into the 3D World in the end.
It was back in 2003, when I first got in contact with Poser and I remember throwing it away into the next far away corner in frustration, where it had to take a long rest before I bothered to touch it again.
But then copyrights became a serious issue and I - becoming aware of the problem - had to find a way to supply the users of my own forums with avatars. So what was the best way for it? Yes, digging out my long lost Poser and installing it again.
It was a pain to get used to the whole thing and I remember very strange, skinless but bluish colored figures with ugly handpainted hair. I think you would call them faeries or sea creatures.
I am still keeping one of them somewhere to show frustrated beginners that they are far better than me when I was just starting - but ok, someday I had to realize, that you just need to put some skin textures on the figures to make them look better - oh, and suddenly a whole new world was there, waiting to be explored. No more smearing stinky oil paint on a canvas (don't get me wrong, I love it. I just don't get along well with the turpentine but that's another story) and nice new ways to illustrate web sites (another passion of mine).
I can't remember why I started to try out texturing. It was a just for fun thing and I did the first texture for the Mediterranean Dress, I think. It didn't look too good - an ugly, bluish-grey colored thing, but I kept on learning more about it and soon I came up with my first texture set for the MFD and the following ones before I switched to photorealistic characters.
It was a really fascinating experience to build a skin from photographs and it became even better, when I finally got my copy of Zbrush last year. I loved doing custom morphs and I always wanted to try out 3D modelling.
But Zbrush had eaten up a lot of my money for those things and I didn't think that I would ever be able to model anything at all, remembering that my Mom had to help me with the silly perfume bottle we had to sculpt at school in my arts class. So it was not really a good idea to put a lot of money into it.
But then Hexagon 2 came into my life - and I can't tell you if I love or hate it. It must be the first thing, as I can't bring myself to abandon it for another modelling application. Let's just call it a love-hate relationship.
And it finally made me try out something I always wanted to do, ever since the first days of trying to find free hairmodels in the web - yes, hair modelling. Don't ask me why - I just like hair. Painting it, modelling it - all of it.
And after all, after quitting my studies of art history, I am earning my money as a content creator for Poser - and even though it's not always easy, I really enjoy what I am doing and I wouldn't want to change this for any other job.
So this is where I am. And you see, I'm always talking too much, so I'll just leave it at that before you're getting really bored and throw some tomatoes at me.
And if you're from Germany, you could be interested in visiting me and some friends at:
visual.dreamshards.de
Comments (43)
Vireo
I looove her hair, dress and jewelry! She's so pretty. :D Her hair looks soooo nice though.. Time well spent!
antje
Well, the 5 hours were worth it! :o) She's absolutely gorgeous! And her hair is simply perfect!! :o) Excellent work! :o)
wishes3d
Ohh! very beautiful. I love her, the hair...Excellent!
JOELGLAINE
Well, some people just spend ALL day on their hair! LOL! I think it was worth it. Great job!
kgatzka
Elegant! Love her eyes that soft grey, hair is wonderful, lips gorgeous.
DRAKELOT
Beautiful hair ! Excellent work and image
oiram
amazing postwork...v
zahnfee
Beautiful hair and expression, excellent!
anitalee
Wow, this is beautiful!
Arvanor
Darling she is simply gorgeous.Maybe i should do Andrea Luca as an image.But i am surely not able to paint hair like you.Love you.
PandyGirl
oh this is beautiful.. and oh man that HAIR.. i wish i had hair like that.. heck wish i could paint hair like that.. THIS is beautiful! such a lovely pose, and expression on her face.. dreamy !
Robert0921
Excellent post work. Beautiul piece.
elinz
Oh my god..she is sooo beautiful..S You have done an EXCELLENT job on the hair..WOW. Gorgeous artwork
ShanShei
She is beautiful. I have now words for it. That hair is so wonderful. Great postwork. Big vote!!!
fracturedmoon
Beautiful portrait and lovely hair. Nice work :)
dricci
That is some of the best painted hair I have seen here .... awesome *****
Giana
i can quite sincerely echo dricci's comment above... scrumptious stuff...
designthedream
definately time well spent, the painting is gorgeous =)
werun
Ein wundersches Portrait, Michelle, und die Haare sind erste Sahne!!!
mlevans
My sincerest respect, along with my vote. You are doing what I am merely trying to do.
Romantic-3D
Gorgeous Portrait! Beautiful face and a fantastic hair painting!:o)
shutterb
Love the gorgeous skin tone and texture.... Beautiful... Great pose and expression... The painted hair is awesome... Excellent...V...
Melyanna
You know, I love her bedroom eyes ;o) And the hair ist really incredible. Think there are some guys, who envy Andrea Luca.
luciferino
Simply exceptional.... wwwowwoow this is a stunnign character a must to have and the postwrok on the hair is sublime compliments kisses Orietta
ArtByMel
The hair was well worth the five hours! Gorgeous image and gorgeous character, exceptional work!
ericfarris
Great hair painting, beautiful expression!!!!!!
rosemarygo
fantastic hair! Very beautiful image.
prog
Wow!!! The hair is just perfect!!!!! EXCELLENT work-time well spent!!!
GRiMAge
Wow! Incredible portrait - very "classical" look! And those hairs - well, the effort really show through! Very beautiful!!
fastburn
Excellent job! The hair looks incredible!!