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 (34)
GOLDILOCKSUK
Oh wow she is amazing you have done beautifully here I love everything about it (V) Cathy oxoxox
fracturedmoon
Wow... she's gorgeous, Valea.. the colors and the lighting... everything is just perfect!
Mondwin
wunderbares bild von eine fee!!!!!!!klass!!!brava!!vote!:DDD
bluemoon3dart
Wonderful portrait. The dress is precious, as well as the hair and the pose. Excellent work.
iamkate101
Very beautiful, she looks competely magical!! a very very stunning picture!
Kinouk
Beuatiful!! Great portrait. BRAVO!! hugz and kisses
Merlin2000
Very beautiful, she looks competely magical!! Fantastic!! Great portrait.Excellent and Vote !!!
kathymoon
she looks adorable and gorgeous,beautiful colors and beautiful outfit!
msebonyluv
Gorgeous lady and the dress is beautiful!! Excellent work!!
sorginye
Love that dreamy wings, and her hair is just beautiful! Fantastic image!!
Arvanor
Excellent my honey.She is truly magical and lovely.
prog
Absolutley gorgeous work!!! EXCELLENT!
Kspada
Stunning image!! She's so soft and beautiful. Her clothes are magnificent. Excellent!
rockets
What a gorgeous character and beautiful postwork!
MysteraXIX
Beautiful portrait and excellent image.
i-popba
wowww..!!! very Fantastic beautiful work my friend..!!! so cool.!
fastburn
Beautiful render!!!!
BlueLotus7
The Faerie Queen, Titania...absolutely brilliant work on her!
thesymphonyofthelife
wov a wonderful portrait with a soft atmosphere and colros. i ilke teh details of the "dress" and the wings are great. it's an excellent composition. have a good day
bebert
superb portrait
NODROG69
Fabulous portrait ~ love the colours. V
adm5050
Now this is what ya call a mighty fine portrait!! Love the bearing and look of the lady and the colors are magnificent!!
Feliciti
wonderful and lovely Portrait!!!Excellent!!
AlteredKitty
Gorgeous character and lovely image :) ____ali x
Fogge
BEAUTIFUL! The textures and postwork is amazing. Excellent!!!
BonBonish
Great portrait, beautiful artwork! -- B.B.
stormsong
Excellent!!!! beautiful image and colors!!!
jwdell
AWESOME!!!!!!
Cyve
WOW Michelle ... It's a wonderful picture .... She's just gorgeous... Beautiful pose and wonderful outfit... Fantastic image my friend !!!
antje
WOW! This is gorgeous!!!! Excellent work! :o)