Aglow by asrailight
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Just playing around with the dynamic cloth and hair tools in P7...I had a hankering to do an image of an angel in the rapture of flight, and this is what came of it. It was the perfect image to practice dynamics on. Please take a good look and let me know how I did.
I don't think it's done yet though...I'm not sure about the background, especially as it relates to the lighting on her. I was trying to go for a dark scene on which she would show up vividly, and appear to be glowing, casting her own soft light.
I also wish I could find a more realistic wing texture...I don't think the current texture matches the realism in the rest of the scene. A search for good free stock photography has also come up short. Anyone know of any resources I could look at?
Any other suggestions that you can offer?
Thanks so much for looking!
Comments (7)
Antonio57
Très jolie!!!
alltheoriginalnames
Great piece. I like the scene. Can't help you with textures or anything as I am new to all of this, but your work is great.
Mondwin
Très belle travail...bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
Mousson
J´AIME BIEN L´ENSEMBLE, BACKGROUND ALSO! WONDERFUL DRESS AND MOVEMENT...
Greybird
I'm not at all sure that you need a more "realistic" wing texture. This one works with the drama of what she is wearing. Your portrayal is internally coherent as it is. (I say all this not from doing rendering or using these 3D wings myself, as yet, but from having seen thousands of winged works at R'osity that have done so.) Look at your title, both delightfully pithy and perfectly accurate: "Aglow." She is, indeed, lit from within, and not overly so. The resonance from her upper body and wings shows up on her hair and the top folds of a beautifully windswept dress. And, subtly and remarkably, from her lower body, on the underside of the dress! You've taken the idea of her generating a personal light — whether it has an overlay of metaphor or not — and made it work effectively already. You have no other apparent light source, as the Moon is only indirectly highlighting the clouds, and not her. The artistic conceit is carried out. Why change one of the key components? It's ironic, I'd say. This is one of the few works I've run across where the artists actually prefers a critique (though I don't follow the "Critique" gallery), and I prefer to leave constructive comments, certainly ones with some detail. And yet ... I can't see my way to being critical here! You ought to leave this as it is, and let her inner glow make the most of those beautiful wings, her smile, and her windswept gown. Besides, I've just fave'd this, so you can't withdraw it now {g} My own crotchet, in closing: I've long believed that winged humans don't have to be cast in the expected roles, and that they can be seen in a this-worldly framework, going "beyond fae and angels" — as my two Elfwood guided tours (accessible here) are titled. You say, yourself, that this is meant to be a realistic image. Any winged humans would challenge enough of the "expected" physics and other elements of this world to allow for ... thinking of an element at random ... generating their own energy? {g} Because they would need sixty-foot wingspans to fly by moving air! To me, in short, the realism already works on its own allowing-for-wings-at-all terms, she doesn't have to be viewed as an "angel," and you should stay with this creation as it is. And in non-short, thanks for indulging me in this commentary.
amirapsp
Lovely creation my art friend...Hugs
corvas
wow this looks really stunning,amazing work with the cloth sim and the pose,amazing scene and the hair looks fantastic really turned out well