Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. As many of you know I turned to graphic art in 1998 after the arthritis in my hands got so bad I couldn't hold a pen or brush very well. Over the years the medium has improved drastically. I like to do holiday pictures and Earth Day is one of my favorites to try and do art for.
This year's picture was frustrating. I always turn to art when stressed and believe me I am really stressed right now. I use two major programs when creating art DAZ for people, animals, and some architecture and Bryce for land and air and putting it all together. So starting in DAZ I decided to do a female dancing. I used the new Genesis2 figure which is way more realistic than anything they have had before. I decided on their "Persian" outfit. Problem number one it looked to me that there were holes in the top and I spent quite a while trying to alter the top. No go. Finally I went to the DAZ program on the web and looked the outfit up (it was one that came with this DAZ version and not one I purchased). Great the top was supposed to look like that. They weren't holes but part of the design. Sigh. I go back to the lady decide that the green would be best and get her posed. Send the lady over to Bryce.
Spend another whole chunk of time trying to find a ground texture that I liked. After dozens of tries I finally find one that worked. Onto the sky and knowing that I wanted a rainbow. Checking through too many folders and trying rainbow sky after rainbow sky. Finally got one I liked. Three elements set now I want a tree. I try dozens of trees with various setting for number of leaves, randomness of branches, trunk widths, etc. You name it and you can fiddle with it. Finally decide on a Yew tree and get it where I want in the background.
I sit and stare at the picture that is getting there but still not what I want. Stare some more finally realize hey I've got an eagle whose wing span looks like the dancer's arms. Hunt on the computer to find the eagle and place it in the sky. Sit and stare, and stare, and stare. I can't figure out what is wrong. Sudden enlightenment! I move the dancer to the left and viola that is the picture I want.
When my brother came out as gay he realized that he couldn't hold onto his right wing politics because they were against his rights so he moved to the left. So the moral of the story is that in art as well as life just move to the left.
Soar