Alright, so let's see - who is Michelle? My full name is Michelle Natascha and I am quite a usual 28-year old Chihuahua mommy from Germany. I suppose that this sounds as if I really like dogs - and yes, that is true. Little Tico is even climbing over my keyboard and myself as I am writing this.
I've been drawing, painting and trying out all sorts of creative things for as long as I can remember, but my true love in all of this is writing. Being a P&P role-player has made me write quite a lot - starting from my own fantasy worlds to short stories and whole books. And it is really funny, that all of this has introduced me into the 3D World in the end.
It was back in 2003, when I first got in contact with Poser and I remember throwing it away into the next far away corner in frustration, where it had to take a long rest before I bothered to touch it again.
But then copyrights became a serious issue and I - becoming aware of the problem - had to find a way to supply the users of my own forums with avatars. So what was the best way for it? Yes, digging out my long lost Poser and installing it again.
It was a pain to get used to the whole thing and I remember very strange, skinless but bluish colored figures with ugly handpainted hair. I think you would call them faeries or sea creatures.
I am still keeping one of them somewhere to show frustrated beginners that they are far better than me when I was just starting - but ok, someday I had to realize, that you just need to put some skin textures on the figures to make them look better - oh, and suddenly a whole new world was there, waiting to be explored. No more smearing stinky oil paint on a canvas (don't get me wrong, I love it. I just don't get along well with the turpentine but that's another story) and nice new ways to illustrate web sites (another passion of mine).
I can't remember why I started to try out texturing. It was a just for fun thing and I did the first texture for the Mediterranean Dress, I think. It didn't look too good - an ugly, bluish-grey colored thing, but I kept on learning more about it and soon I came up with my first texture set for the MFD and the following ones before I switched to photorealistic characters.
It was a really fascinating experience to build a skin from photographs and it became even better, when I finally got my copy of Zbrush last year. I loved doing custom morphs and I always wanted to try out 3D modelling.
But Zbrush had eaten up a lot of my money for those things and I didn't think that I would ever be able to model anything at all, remembering that my Mom had to help me with the silly perfume bottle we had to sculpt at school in my arts class. So it was not really a good idea to put a lot of money into it.
But then Hexagon 2 came into my life - and I can't tell you if I love or hate it. It must be the first thing, as I can't bring myself to abandon it for another modelling application. Let's just call it a love-hate relationship.
And it finally made me try out something I always wanted to do, ever since the first days of trying to find free hairmodels in the web - yes, hair modelling. Don't ask me why - I just like hair. Painting it, modelling it - all of it.
And after all, after quitting my studies of art history, I am earning my money as a content creator for Poser - and even though it's not always easy, I really enjoy what I am doing and I wouldn't want to change this for any other job.
So this is where I am. And you see, I'm always talking too much, so I'll just leave it at that before you're getting really bored and throw some tomatoes at me.
And if you're from Germany, you could be interested in visiting me and some friends at:
visual.dreamshards.de
Comments (28)
Arvanor
Oh my darling that is so wonderful from you. I like it, no i love it!Better,i love you!Cara mia,tesoro,tu sei la piu bella donna del mondo per me.Marko
fracturedmoon
Very romantic and beautiful piece :) And a very nice dedication as well! Yay!
sassecasseb
WOW!! What a beautiful scene, your characters look amazing, and tha hair painted is supurb. Excellent Job!!!
iamkate101
Beautiful and romantic scene! What an excellent job! :)
Merlin2000
Wow wow wow what a great Image for a great Friend !!! This looks absolut perfect !!! Excellent Scene and Pose !!! Excellent and Vote !!!!
chrysalide
the hair and the expression of the face is very good. i like the pose od the man and the contrast between the colors of the clother. It's an excellent composition. have a good day
papachile
Michelle! You made such a beautiful image! I mean, the reds of her dress so match the hair perfectly. The posing is extraordinary, and that look off she has is very well done. Most excellent workQ!!
Eleria
It's a wonderful and very romantic scene. I love the passionate colors that fit so well to the passionate couple you show in this image. Excellent as always! :-)
Forevernyt
A very romantic scene with a lot of atmosphere! Great mood for the two lovers!
SoulSearcherr
very romantic
adm5050
Beautiful and romantic and so well done!! Excellent image!!
Feliciti
wonderful and very romantic Scene !!!Excellent Hair too!!
Fogge
Beautiful posing and characters. The hair and postwork is amazing. Excellent!
prog
Gorgeous colors and poses!! Excellent render!
luciferino
Wonderful and very passionate scene . really great kisses Orietta
stormsong
beautiful scene. wonderful hair and textures. :)
MysteraXIX
Fanatstic colors and excellent pose.
LadyNightVamp
wow! einfach nur wow!
german-witch
Wahnsinn, das ist ein Pchen!! WOW! KLasse farben und Pose, Excellent!
dragonheart1965
eine sehr sche Szene ,sieht wirklich toll aus :)
SaSch-Style
ein wundersches Bild und die Haare ....schwm
BlueLotus7
I like your romantic images too! Keep up the great work!
anny
So sch und so romantisch! Excellent!
lyma
wuiiiii, romantisch und sexy. Die Haare sind auch super.
Galana
wundervolles Bild... klasse...
Cyve
It's soooo romantic ... i love this one ... great character and very good pose ... great realization too !!!
mersa
Ein Bild das total geflt. Klasse Arbeit 2 daumen hoch
blazing_star
ok Drools here.. I love the work you put into this... It is very romantic and the passion in the pic is just WOW... Even my Hubby Damain agrees on this one.LOL.. Keep up the great work.... Blazedin