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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.ÂÂ
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 (35)
elisheba
A gorgeous and delicate render, I love the blurry and dreamy feel to it, great job, 5 stars :)
flavia49
extraordinary picture!!! great light!
Faemike55
WOW! this is wonderful! the lighting and pose are great! Must have been fun resizing the skin to get this effect Well done
Digital_Mischief
What a wonderful render, very nice.
ArtPearl
Very charming!
LBAMagic
Excellent work Great fog and volumetric lighting fx.
FutureFantasyDesign
OK, this is just an instant Fav! So exotic and evocative! This really needs to be seen full size to get the beauty up close. Hugs Ariana
DivabugDesigns
Oh!!!!! So cute! had to fav this right away!!!
Iceshark39
Absolutely adorable and such stunning work on the skin! Wonderful job!
kjer_99
More a Kitten nap, I think! Really love this. Got to add it to my favs.
bigmama1972
OMG this is so so beautiful and cute... ohhh must look again and again... so sweeeeeet!!!
jgmart
Beautiful render
Krid
beautiful scene with excellent lightning and mood
Ailig68
This is amazing! So tender, with great light...excellent!
DAVER2112
Excellent work! :)
IQ200
Very well done :)
kftate
Beautiful and very creative scene!!! Excellent lighting and mood!!
reaver80808
Fantastic, great work. The lighting and pose are spot on!
kassad
Very good scene and render. Excellent work and lighting too. B->
arialgr
See I knew that you could do it dear. Very well done. ;)
sintoock
Excellent
Schnuck
Very cute!!!
FrankT
Aww cute!!!
gillbrooks
That's really sweet :)
Jucce
So beautiful and sweet, now I must get some sleep!
giovanino
very nice work love it
Hallowed_Sylph
I had the pleasure of seeing this in progress and it is even more stunning now than it was then ! Bravo my friend !
JappMe
Beautiful scene and amazing light. :)
morganahope
gorgeous and delicate work !! ++++++++++++5
Dreamweaver111
WOW. the atmosphere... lights... pose... idea... im impressed with it ALL! good work Meli! (makes a brilliant desktop background) ;)