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
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Comments (24)
papachile
WOW! I love the softness of the image. She looks so gentle...very deiieving that she could probably chop off yer head and think nothing of it. Absolutely stunning hair work too!
ericfarris
Superb, excellent hair painting and expression!!! Beautiful colors too!!! - Excellent work!!!!
wishes3d
Excellent work!
Sabra
Me likes the bikini ;) You make awfully beautiful art, and this is another masterpiece!
elcana
Excellent work!! Love softness and you have done a great job painting hair!!
werun
Eine wundersche Arbeit!
fairyfreak
Wonderful soft image. ;-) and the association with chainmail bikini's obvious!?!.
xeniaghost
Fabulous character and the pose and lighting are amazing! Wonderful work!
malcot
Beautiful pose and lovely render.
DRAKELOT
!!! EXCELLENT WORK !!!
5thmusketeer
Wow just to much amazing art posted to day. Wonderful shading and color. The image has a soft warm feel to it. Fantastic work.
ZeroEffect
Perfact pose, and lighting. What beautiful work, and the end result is amazing.
Latexluv
Lovely!!!!!!!
ErrantMinion
Excellent work :)
JWFokker
That looks like a plate armor bikini, not chainmail. Looks good though.
loba73
Beautiful Image!!! Excellent =0)
curly
Love everything about this picture!!!
Axeye
Mercedes is stunning, your hair painting and postwork are beautiful and your color and postwork is flawless! Excellent work!
Krid
beautiful lady and excellent pose and lightning
Danceswithroos
Those metal bikini must be bloody cold first thing in the morning. :) Awesome work. Really very pretty!
Orionboy
Excellent work !! Bye Orion ^_^
Arvanor
So what is our next theme that you put into an image Darling? Great work Michelle. Love you, Marko
Draftshop
Excellent work, well done!
ShanShei
Excellent!!!! I loved that hair. Very great postwork on that.