January 2013
Been at this site five years now and have seen a lot of growth - both artistically and spiritually thanks to the many good friends I have met here. I work with Poserpro2012, photoshop CS6, PSPX2, Perfect Effects 3 and Photomatrix 4. I love working in the material room and continue to find lots of growth there. I also do a lot of postwork fixing, special affects, and framing, all for which photoshop is indispensible. I love doing postwork; no image is anywhere near complete without it.
In the last year or so I've added quite a bit of photography to my gallery. I started with a Nikon Coolpix 9100 point and shoot. It gives amazing quality and its small size makes it easy to pack around and just grab some shots as they come into my vision. I still use it for sneaky people shots but now I use a Nikon D5100 DSLR for my more serious keeper work. Had I known how all consuming my passion for photography would become I should have jumped to a D600 low end pro camera.In my gallery you will see mostly storylines based upon my own visions and versions of Mesopotamian Mythology, sprinkled with some Celtic works and an occasional pinup or two and quite a few special requests. I have long been a writer, though a terrible speller, and so most of my images come with a storyline or poem. No image seems complete to me without words to accompany them.In high school I trained in both the Sciences and Fine Arts but when I went to university I had to choose one or the other and so I went with the life sciences. Art dropped out of my life for a long time... though I never gave up my interest in archeology and mythology. I wound up with a graduate degree in the life sciences with majors in physical geography, ecology and evolutionary biology. My love of nature and a deep naturalistic spirituality eventually led me to the wikkan tradition.Some five and a half years ago I discovered poser after coming across some great 3-d art on the web and after some six months of stumble bum practice I joined this site.Doing this type of art has released many visions and stories that were locked up inside my soul for many ages. It has allowed me to explore the life and times of my primal spiritual ancestor, a girl also named Roxanne, who lived in the Sumerian regions. She whispers the stories of these classic legends in my mind and I create the images to go with them.My stories are mostly written as dialogue and they tend to be rather long. So grab a coffee, a tea or better yet a beer, kick back, relax and stay a while.I hope you enjoy your stay here.Hugs and blessed beRoxy
Comments (58)
RodS
Roxy, I know what you're saying, my dear friend! It's funny and rather exciting when an image takes on a life of its own, and ends up leading you to make it what it wants to be. Those are the ones that define what art is. And you have been doing some incredible art, my friend! This is a beautiful and most appropriate artwork for Schonee! I'm sure she will trasure it.
alessimarco
A beautifully detailed scene and awesome postwork!
Sepiasiren
there are so many wonderful elements to this that I really enjoy I don't know where to start--perhaps at your forte's which is textures and lighting--the muted red wings really define this piece giving it drama-well done!
ssteph
Terrific image and dedi
Tracesl
beautiful, wonderful character and scene
3dpoetry
Stunning style
misthemes
Wonderful scene, great work dear Roxy! No doubt she is a High Priestess! Details are very interesting, the cat and the mouse, the triple moon... A scene full of friendly warmth ! Hugs
ragouc
Very good character and outfit. Very nice picture and colour tone.
tamburro
Fantastic image Roxy. The colors are warm more you get a great smoothness in the whole scene. Beautiful dedication. Bravo!!
SyberianFrost
Fantastic image
FaeMoon
I love the soft focus and the glow you achieved for this and the details are delicious. :)
chabot
fine work!
schonee
Thank you so much Roxy. I know you spent a lot of tine on this and I am so sorry to be so late. Yes I do understand & Thank you again for thinking of me.
ShoxDesign
Great artwork! Thank you very much for credit :)
crender
XCellent!!!!
boggers
This is absolutely beautiful - full of symbolism and pathos the colours just sing and the lighting is perfect!
scifibabe
Gorgeous and rich color to this. Really wonderful painterly like quality to your art here. Love the lady with her pet raven and all the details in the setting. A fantasy feast to the eyes!
pixeluna
Don't sweat it out, it still looks really nice-- your effort has paid off. I like that soft, dreamy style. Such a classic look!
2Loose2Trek
That's a quite thoughtful image Roxy. Yep! Sometimes, well most of the time, artwork just wants to be what it is. Well done. Nice dedication to Schonee too. I don't know what's up but I hope it all works out.
nefertiabet
Wonderful fantasy scene and so nice dedication!!! Have a nice new week, hugs Elke
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent scene! Well done!
shingleboot
Excellent image. Has that old style photo look to it
velleman
Exceptionally rich image!
Thetis
so marvelous!
plasmid
I really like bloodelfs in WOW so this caught my eye...and held it (you shoulda seen me try to pull my eyeball off the screen). You always have such a nice glow to your art and in this particular render, it really adds a porcelain effect to her skin.
NetWorthy
You really are drawn to these dark pieces aren't you LOL! This must have taken awhile to put together. Wonderful work, I love it!
vapo
Beautifully composed and rendered! I really like the colors and the sweet smile on this lady's face... :) Vashek
FragmentedFortunes
Truly amazing scene and character, her features are so beautiful. Very classy post work, this is glorious.