Retired professional full-time portrait artist and engineer (degrees in mathematics, engineering and photography... go figure).
If you read bios, and sometimes revisit them, you'll know in 2018 I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis. Then, in 2020, a new neurologist (because I moved across country) diagnosed me as having Parkinson's. Then, after some serious issues with jerking movements, she sent me to a movement specialist, and NOW this new neurologist who specializes in movement disorders has said I don't have MG, MS, ALS, Parkinson's, or any other host of neuromuscular diseases. She classified the movements as non-essential tremors, and said, "My hardware is over loading my software." That's the 2022 diagnosis.
2023 Update - It turns out that I have a half-dozen discs in my spine that are collapsing. Thus, Degenerative Disc Disease, or DDD for short. I never knew that DDD could cause tremors (well, the pain causes them) and stuff like that. Now I go to physical therapy 4 days a week to hopefully avoid spinal surgery.
I've got high hopes and remain positive.
I started doing 3D renders in DAZ and Poser started when I first became sick at the start of 2018. It is a distraction from my symptoms, and I'm not under any pressure or deadlines to get things done. Even this is difficult on some days, but I can always stop temporarily to get some rest. In July, 2020, my wife and I moved across country to be closer to children and grandchildren.
If I'm not cooking or preparing for a meal, I'm rendering. Art and food are my passions.
I used to enjoy travel, bicycling, cooking (which I can still do in short bursts), photography (again, in short bursts), hiking and painting (which I now do digitally). I'm determined to do something with my time even if my strength is greatly limited.
Just prior to getting sick I drove ALL of Route 66. I've been using some of the photos from that trip and adding 3D characters to them. You can see them in my Route 66 gallery here on Renderosity. You can actually follow the story at Route66Photographers.com. It's a fictional story about my travels with a rambunctious young lady named Charly.
My wife is my biggest supporter. She helps me come up with ideas to render and paint.
Brent's Rules to Live By...
1) Everyone can teach you something regardless of age or education.
2) When you're down, a child's smile will always lift you up.
3) Keep God's commandments, as best you can, but when you can't, repent quickly.
4) Read your scriptures daily, but pray all the time.
5) Love everyone, but don't expect anything from them in return.
Artist of the Month - December, 2021
https://www.renderosity.com/article/24824/interview-with-december-2021-artist-of-the-month-dbwalton
Comments (7)
Rickwesh
Love it. Have seen a lot of your work and like all of it
dbwalton
Thank you very much. I take all complements seriously and with gratitude. I appreciate your saying that.
mich40ish
But can she type? :-) Nice render!
Saby55
Beautiful character!!! Really well done with a great quality render!!👍🙋♂️
jdwtrxk
My secretary was a black Labrador....verynice.
dbwalton
Oh, and could the Lab type? LOL
Back in the 1980s I had this cute blonde secretary who was a BYU grad. My boss would drool when he'd walk by her desk. One day he commented to me, "I can see why you attended BYU."
JoeJarrah
Decidedly insouciant smile!
...secretaries seem to be becoming a thing of the past, and the "office administrators" would have had you up before a tribunal for using the word in some of my previous jobs!
dbwalton
How well I know. Having been in upper management at a Fortune 5, I know exactly what you mean. I dealt with many of what we called EEO/AA complaints. Sometimes they were as much as, "I could tell by the way he looked at me." (rolling my eyes) I had one boss busted for sexual harassment. I told Scott Adams about it, and he based a Dilbert on it the following week. If that wasn't bad enough, he named the character Tim, which was my boss' name.
jdwtrxk
My mother was a secretary back in the day as well a flirts, comments, etc. She had to rely on her wit rather to tame the arse-holes rather than a judge or magistrate. She found it more humorous then those receiving her counter-battery fire...
jdwtrxk
err 'and was subjected to'....