Thanks for visiting. My chosen programs for digital media are Poser 4 and PhotoShop. I'm no Poser purist. I do a lot of post-work in my pin-ups, and planned it that way before I even purchased the program. To me, Poser is like a digital sketchpad, to be finished in PhotoShop. BIOFor as long as I can remember, I've been drawing. I was always admiring the works of great fantasy and pin-up artists like Vallejo, Brom, Sorayama, Olivia, Nagle, and Michael Whelan, to name a few.
When I was younger, I really wanted to be a comic book artist, but when I realized I just wasn't good enough, I stopped drawing for years. About two years ago, I saw a Poser 4 box in a clearance bin at a software store, and decided to give it a try. I figured, let it do the basics, and I'll paint over it.
Not long afterwards, my sister bought me PhotoShop for helping her and her family move 300 miles to a new city. I've not looked back since. With every new render, I try something new. Try to push my post-working skills a bit further. I'm halfway through my most ambitious project right now(which I'm taking a break from, at the moment), doing a reproduction of a Brom, with over 98% of the poser render painted over, and the entire background painted in.
Currently, I am working on a custom character for Daz's Victoria. Having studied anatomy extensively for my traditional media artwork, I just don't like the way Vicky looks. She really isn't shaped very well to look like a real woman. with Kayla, I hope to correct some of that.
Comments (22)
artistheat
very nice
Sacred Rose
Beautifully done Master Kage. She does indeed look very glamourous, and very very pretty.
jc riley
Very well done (nice angle on the camera too)
DemolitionMan
She's gorgeous Kage.......;)
futuramik
you da man Kage! this is bloody unreal! actually bloody REAL!
caleb68
love it kage :) a beautiful image :)
dark_thoughts
she looks really good kage!!
Cheryle
wow Kage!!!!!!!! uh wow! uhhh
Vethril
What an image! Unbelievable! Looks like 50's Glamor Photos, right from the big studios. God Kage, how do you get this look? Must be a hundred steps to achieve it. sigh I can't duplicate it in any way. =( So real looking, you could touch her face! =) Amazing work! sighs Someday, I might get close to it. =)
seventwenty
kage your stuff is fantastic are you going to be doing more in this series if you do that will be great
LadyLight
This is gorgeous.. so lifelike !!
nikitacreed
This is fabulous Kage! I just love it!
BCEmcke
falling in love with this gorgeous woman...this is greeeeeeat. but as i know you, spoken with the words of a great singer whom's name i just forgot: We have only just begun!!!!" More please :-)
Fate
10 Stars!!!! Dont stop=)
The_Hierophant
i dont rate people often but this one is worth a 10 the quality is outstanding other than the eyes it is very much like a photo but the eyes are even very good for poser you have done a perfect job kage
Kageboshi
Thanks for all the comments! Funny thing about that Hierophant...the eyes on the texmap are scans of a real woman's eyes.
depakotez
Wow Kage, this is awesome! Man... I thought for a moment this was a pic. Great job on the realism here.
lamerhack
All I can seem to say is wow. I really do not see how you can make things look so real but then again you have been doing this longer than I have. Anyways keep up the good work.
SweetMystic
Oh wow this is great!! I have no luck at all with Poser. She is really beautiful!!
dukduk
this is amazing...but the "weirdness" (for lack of a better term) of the eyes takes away from the overall image...however, that cameo choker is absolutely amazing--as is her hair!!!!!!!!
ennui
Wow.. this is beautiful!
maxmaster
Wonderful work ...