Thank you very much for your swimsuitcontest and your votes. I am very honored to be one of the winners; I had come to the idea that it was very difficult to confront the often award-winning renderings of Daz Studio when you are used to Poser. Congratulations to all the other winners and thank you to the generous sponsors! Here is how I developed this project: after searching through my bikini library to focus on the poses of the characters, I told myself that I had to move up a notch. Indeed, for me, creating a genre scene is always a pretext for documentation, or even historical documentation, to soak up atmospheres (I regularly visit a site like Shorpy to recharge my batteries, for example). In this contest, it seemed interesting to me to learn more about the history of the swimsuit, especially for women, a societal issue more noticed than that of men. Having a model of a mobile beach cabin, to keep people away as much as possible when entering the water and to be able to change in peace, I looked at the period of the end of the 19th century. I set myself the challenge of making a sexy character, while she would wear a very covering swimsuit. The major obstacle is that this swimsuit does not really exist in 3D costume shops, so I set out to reconstruct it from existing clothes: straight pants and a peasant skirt (thanks cute3D) that I shortened with a set of personal textures. I completed this set with the free mob cap found at sharecg (thanks Rosemaryr). While Drawing my textures in Photoshop, I started looking for an original pose, and that's when I remembered that I had a penny-farthing in my 3D library. On this subject, I open a parenthesis: in the story of a genre scene, the realism of the scene does not need to be absolute (no one would go here, to enter the water on such a machine; it would be too dangerous, and there would not really be any physical pleasure), it just needs the support of the viewer. At first glance, without thinking too much about it, the idea seems tempting, seductive; it is confirmed by the cheerful expression, the fanned toes of the character, but, it is a fiction like in the cinema. Second important point of a genre scene, the action of the main character is amplified if it is placed under the gaze of another who provides a counterpoint. Here again, I am not making this up, I invite you to review all the talented illustrators who have made the cover of the Saturday evening Post (Norman Rockwell, John Falter, George Hughes, Amos Sewell, ...). This older lady who seems to be offended introduces a new temporality in the form of a kind of generational conflict ("in my time..."). Finally, I like the background to emphasize the subject without crushing it, which is why I often blur it in a shallow depth of field. There remains the thorny problem of moving water, essential to accredit the dynamism of the scene. I admit that, although I have 3D fluid effects (thanks Flink) I often prefer to use brushes in Photoshop (those from Deviney), you must of course anticipate their use with the perspective of the image. Here the Ron's splashes are used on two superimposed layers, one in normal blending mode, the other in product mode (the latter produces the moisture stains on the clothes and the cabin). That's about it; hoping that this encourages you to develop your creativity.