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I've always been creative.... but was easily frustrated with my lack of abilities. The old adage "practice makes perfect" irritated me to no end. Enter adolescence & young adulthood, and an alphabet soup mixture of labels applied to me by the "good old" docs. After being turned into a zombie by well-intentioned doctors and slowly pulling myself out of that dead-feeling place they left me in, I realized the only one who could truly help me - was me.
As the fog cleared, I turned to the one thing I knew would help.... artwork. Yet, again, I was frustrated. But this time I was determined... I wanted to be a normal human being again, and using my artwork as a method of expressing myself was the key. I quickly outgrew a free program I found - VCW Vicman's Photo Express. After a bit of research, I decided the next step was adobe photoshop. Yet, still, I was frustrated. I was in love with the styles of Boris & a few others, and I wanted to try to recreate that magical mystical feeling. I knew there had to be a way beyond painting by hand (which, given my lack of living space, would have been nigh on impossible - not to mention my lack of abilities once more). More research.... and I discovered poser.Â
Now here was something I knew I could use - but OH MY! all those buttons and terms I had no idea what meant. My first person turned into a pretzel. Slowly, with a lot of trial and error, I learned about the dials, and started figuring things out. 7 years later, I look back on it all and go "wow. Look how far I've come - and look how much I still have to learn!" I've since added Vue 6, 7, and now 9.5inf into my workflow, and have loved it from the start =D
As for the zombie.... she's gone now. And I refuse to allow her to return. I will forever be grateful to the wonderful creators of photoshop, poser, and vue for making available the tools I needed to be able to fully express myself, and to all the artists that I've watched over the years - you give me hope, inspiration, and the confidence to keep trying.
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Comments (12)
Iceshark39
Wonderful composition and the blue looks just stunning! Love the effects on the candle light!
mhyrdin
The objects seem perhaps to float over the table but the mood is really wonderful. Bravo !
Victoria-Purplehair
I love this! materials are always good things to work on. The candles need to be a little less tall and slim, and some blue at the base of the flame would be good. but otherwise it's very good...too good to be a wip if you ask me!
kasalin
Wow.... so detailed and rich in colours.... beautiful
Faemike55
Wonderful image
Timbo1138
Looks great,
FrankT
the candle light looks good. There's something a little off with the shadows on the table, they could do with maybe being a bit stronger because it looks a bit like things are floating at the moment. I dunno how you'd do dust though - try asking in the Vue forum, I expect someone there will have an idea
melikia
items MAY be floating (not sure, dont think i looked that close) - but it was a basic importing of two objects (hallway & candle stuff)... i didn't move anything on the table itself. shadows - yes, they need some help - the scene is lit only by the lights in the candles. as it was a test of materials & lighting, i didnt bother checking exact placement of objects. LOL. a bit more blue in flame base... good idea, thank you =D as for the dust - been trying to work through silverblade's dirty tutorial giggles... but i keep mucking things up. oh well, this is the closest i've gotten so far ;) and the marble top to the table... i need to work on the marbling LOL. anyways, off to go fishing =D thanks for the comments & suggestions!
dvab
Great work!
Thelby
It came out Very Lovely!!!
e-brink
Excellent candlelight!
Kindredsoul
I have been wanting to make a candle light scene, but not sure how to do it. Thanks for the tip.