Much as my life tries to distract me from it, I keep coming back to art. It's a fundamental part of my OS. Imaginative art has been a passion from my wee years (4 or 5). Growing up during the Space Race, my creative juices usually yearned skyward. I loved creating sci-fi images that had their roots in factual science. Or just cute ladies. Or lunar exploring penguins. Or a twisted mix of all three.
Okay, I haven't actually tried that... yet... It was drilled into my head, very early, that art was not a viable career. It was 20 years before I realized how much hooey that was. With a college degree in the sciences I made a course correction and eeked out something almost representing "a living" as a professional SF illustrator in the late 80's. My work was mostly done for paper and pen RPG companies - all the big players at the time.
In the 90's I turned to computer games, but I foolishly drifted into the administrative side. Once I left that field, I began the task of backtracking to rekindle my illustrative/design/graphics roots.
In Jan. of 2006, my pal Tom (TomPeters) introduced me to DAZ Studio. I became immediately addicted - and I don't use that term lightly! Much money spent and little sleep has been had since. 3D figure modeling has sunk its hooks deep into my brain. Ouch!
Comments (37)
Anain
Fantastic scene and work. Superb! :)
LinaraTar
perfect render... wow
alltheoriginalnames
You've got her down to a science man, nice use of earth tones in this as well. Nicely done
imaga
Es una gran escena, brillante composición, la pose es excelente pero la mirada de ella es extraordinaria, muy bien hecho!
45Cool
Beautiful Character and scene!!!! Fave!!!!
theSea
you're just having too much fun with this :) Really nice use of bg and I echo the comment about the colors.
3Dillusions
Beautiful
meselfr
fantastic!!!! :)
Star4mation
Super character, ace render :)
lyron
Fantastic work!
efer
Love it!
722
amazing work , lighting, poseing
DennisReed
I'm enjoying what I survy as well! ;)
Swordsmaster
Nice upgrade and improvement. Like the pose and facial expression, although I am wondering how she got ontop of the rock... and how is she going to get down? Like to know which Backdrop are you using for the scenery... Great image.
Shiroyama
gorgeous returns! awesome pic, love the color tones.
jmillz13
sexy!! enough said...
DarkStormCrow
Excellent!
Robert0921
Looks awesome man.
Rockdog
Wow... very nice...
airpower1
Fantastic work!
elfguy
Lovely girl!
ElorOnceDark
Awesome! Great render! I love the setting!
dreamlord08
Great piece or art ;-o 5+
proteus2
And with a vengeance too !! P
Forevernyt
Adara is awesome! Great render.
TomPeters
Oh man! I'm glad she's back. I love the mood of this piece, the palette and composition establish a real sense of solitude and serene triumph; a moment of calm before plunging into the storm again. Beautiful work. I'm looking forward to seeing more of her!
evinrude
Cool!
PoserHobbit
Most excellent work!
Bugzlife
Beautiful!
swjkie100
Very nice setting, and awesome skin shader work!