I was looking at my gallery and noticed something…
I use RED as the colour of my girls’ hair more often than any other.
I’ve also noticed my girls tend to be muscular, or at least toned (I loathe that word in relation to female musculature… ). They look like they’ve been at the free weights area of the gym and pay attention to their food - sorta like me!
Anyone else unconsciously model their DAZ people after themselves?
I’m starting a little side project - a series of pin-ups. I’ll be adding a twist to them a little later on, if I can get my idea working correctly between brain and program. I’m sure we all have days where what we are imagining, doesn’t quite work out correctly when translating to the monitor and program (or even pencil and paper!). My series will be done almost completely in DAZ|Studio, with V3 as my model. My ‘girls’ will be a variety of classic beauties to petite little things, to tattooed, pierced, punk and goth… among other things ;) There should be something when the series is finished, to suit pretty much everyone.
My idea came from seeing a book in the trash pile, at the library! Who can imagine a library throwing out a perfectly good book? I don’t normally go digging around in trash dumpsters, or looking in people’s trash, but being the bookworm I am, I can’t resist a box of books on the ground, even if it’s meant for the garbage. I ended up with a very unusual drag queen cutout paperdoll book by looking in a pile of magazines someone set out at the curb for trash… Wow, the dresses designed in it are very unique looking and have been the basis for a few drawings I have done.
The library book was styled as a ” coffee table ” book. so there was nothing obscene or vulgar in it. Well, I guess if the book is of tasteful, artistic, classic photographs and paintings/illustrations of unphotoshopped, non-plastic surgeried women, who may or may not have clothing on, it can be thrown away down here in the deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep south. Ha!
I thought this file was going to be unfinished forever, but the latest DAZ|Studio beta opened it without any major issues (I had to scale some items a bit, but I think that was caused by a bug in a previous D|S version, since the file did the same thing way back when…)
I’m calling it done now and won’ t be working on it any more in the near future.
So far, no problems with D|S 2.2.2.20. Shaders seem to work, old files open, contents/objects are found, files open faster than ever. Render times are still quick for me - hey anything less than 24 hour render time is fast! In the past, I’ve had renders in POV-Ray take a week or more to complete… I should dl the latest version of that and MO-Ray to play with again.
I’m not sure why others are having issues with this version of D|S. Maybe I’m one of the lucky ones that rarely ever has software or hardware problems? *knock on wood*
Time to work on another previously unopenable D|S files!
I took a nap today… for 1½ hours. I was so tired! I got home from work last night at 11:30. I was too wired to go to sleep right away ( even with not having any caffeine all night! ), so I popped on WoW ( world of warcraft ) and got my BloodElf warlock a level (22) and a new pet ( a succubus… yeah. hehe ). My prim and proper warlock is running around with a half nakie ass slapping whip cracking succubus that currently likes to lash people and sometimes kiss them into submission. haha!
Yep, video games are still teen male oriented 
BUT, I like them anyhow And since similar characters are what I tend to draw, it also makes me some side money doing portraits as well. Anyhow, I got the level and decided at 12:20 am, I had better go to sleep because I had to get up at 7 am to take my friend to work and for me to do some housework - clean the bathrooms and do laundry - before I went to work.
I got all my stuff done and decided a nap was allowed around 10:30 am today. Yippee! Now, I’m trying to wake up enough to function haha. I have to leave for work in about 1½ hours. I probably won’t be home tonight until midnight. We’re giving away another car tonight. Forgot what kind this time, whatever it is, they have 36/48mpg on a big sign next to it. Next week, it’s a Prius. Casino employees and their immediate families/people at their residence are, of course, excluded from ever winning. Darn… cuz I could use a cheaper mode of transportation right now ( I have a big dodge, that costs more than 75$ to fill up each week with the cheapest gas )
Tonight will be crazy. Everyone always thinks they will be the one to win the giveaways. I mean everyone too. From your own the biggest mansion on the beach people, to your living in a shack in the swamp folks. There will be much drinking and smoking. Money lost and won. A few people thrown out. The winner usually ends up being an 85 year old woman that doesn’t even live in the area or show up to the give away! Seriously! When we had our jet ski giveaway, the winner was an 87 year old woman with no grandkids… wtf!
I finished another picture yesterday. It was done as a test for clothes, eye and skin (drow) shader settings, clothing texture ( yay! I textured something! ) and DOF (depth of field) testing. The DOF failed for the most part. I can see it, but I’m looking for it. The skin turned out fairly well for a quick colouring and the eyes that you can’t see, look awesome in a closeup.
(junk section of the art page)
I also worked a little bit more on my Resident Evil3 fan art picture.
( in the WIP section )