raspberryrain

It's New Year's Eve.

I was going to try to produce some new art when I was doing the Art Advent Calendar on Bluesky, but it's hard to start again.

About to get through a calendar year having made NO VISUAL ART, and that feels so wrong.

My old version of DAZ Studio doesn't work, the newer versions confuse me still, and most of my old files I lost a few years ago. That last part is the most discouraging; I had years of character designs & personal hacks that just don't exist anymore.

I got on the DAZ3D site today, and they're breaking up with 3Delight, the fast render program. Ugh.

And yeah, I haven't cared enough to figure this out all year.

I'm trying to render something from a forgotten file that looks like I started it & left it 27 months ago, that's how bad it is.

And I have no clue when this new render program thinks it's even done.

Well, I still have 3Delight, so I can redo it.

But what is this lighting? I didn't put these fills in!

...

Somebody buy me a camera. I should go back to 35mm film.

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Anyway, here's an artless piece of art.

I wonder where my wild animal models got to. :-(

Victoria 4 by DAZ3D, hair by outoftouch, pullover by 3D-Age, skin texture from Illusions Designs (rip)
DAZ Studio, Photoshop
Nia

I should just be a photographer, lol.

After magnetising this pullover (3D-Age Small Lovely II) with EasyBreast (yes my cartoon breasts are in fact partly third-party), I added a few magnets to the chest & abdomen to patch that. Then I put magnets in the armpits. It worked, but it takes a little while! And I've been lazy! So lazy!

This is actually a reused pose and lights from almost a year ago. Different hair & new camera, so it's not that obvious?

So I haven't been producing artwork for a month. In that time, Twitter has been undercut by new management, Tumblr is allowing artistic nudity, & dA is doing something daft with AI art. I may be back, but what does "back" mean?

(Oh, cool! dA has "Not authorized for inclusion in third-party AI datasets" checked by default? Apparently.)

DAZ Studio & Photoshop
Nia

Fake reflection work. It took me longer than it should have to notice that my camera position was fine, I just needed to flip the reflection shot. Slow-witted old snake-woman!

working on art: great
publishing art: tedious
cropping art for publishing: horrid



Am working on phone wallpaper sizes. This may be a waste of my time.

Thoughts/feelings?
If you download a wallpaper for your smartphone, do you want...
just a big image to crop?
choice of alternative resolutions?
a crop already chosen for you?
something else?

I did work on a render really late Saturday, & I was unhappy with it even before I found a big error in it.

I reshot it & put it on Patreon. Wow, too bad I have no subscribers to read this content!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/anna-doubled-58397150

Stage magician Anna occupies a strange place in my stable of characters, in that she was created as fan art of DC Comics' Zatanna Zatara, but I just kept her around ....

But seriously, I don't want to trick fans of Zatanna into giving me $4 for this. It's a few sentences about 3D character design & extremely boring. Don't give me money. I would feel bad.

DAZ Studio, Photoshop
Nia/Raspberry

I probably could have posted something like this earlier if I hadn't been stubbornly trying to work with some badly chosen lighting for hours. But yeah, newly customised raspberry dress, new raspberry(ish) makeup, & finally lit well enough to show it off.

A couple days ago, I did these corrected versions of some shots that were previously published with a mysteriously downscaled cartoon Nia; but I'm not sure how I want to publish them.

( First two are nsfw. )

Two close the space between
september 30, corrected october 12-13

no i will not explain what you're looking at
Nia
DAZ Studio
working on a comic strip

[I called it "outtake" but it's technically a "behind the scenes" sort of? behind the behind?]

DAZ Studio, Photoshop background
Carrot

I may as well start using Imgur links for posts to Dreamwidth now. DeviantArt used to have well-designed links, but now there's not really a point in using them other than not taking time to also put an image on Imgur.
Tumblr & dA both break links after a while apparently, & I think Twitter is stopping hotlinking.
I'm going to have to use Imgur or load stuff here, eventually. So start now.