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Published: 2006-04-18 23:32:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 3651; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 199
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This started out as practice on painting hair and clothes - and it turned out interesting so I decided to post it. The background in from 1010 and the wing's are Sarsa's - the bizarre maypoll dress comes from my own fevered imagination! It's nice to do a fairy too - they're always fun.
Thanks for looking.
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Truly gorgeous ~ I'd say your experiment worked very well 
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Thank you so much - glad you enjoyed it.
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It's an awesome picture! It corresponds so well with my current mood.
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How lovely - glad you liked her.
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This came out very good!!! Stunning character in a fantastic scenery! Bravo!
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hehehe.... there are so many evil pictures outthere... I can show you gigabytes of them in my "came-not-out-as-expected"-directory...
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I can't believe you have those!
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There are always bad pics which can be rescued with postwork magic, but there are also some evil pics beyond any rescue option...
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Lovely..and I think your painting looks great..I am trying my hand at cloth painting and boy is it a pain in the butt hahah.....I love the wings and the background as well..her pose makes her look very carefree....Great job!
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Thank you. It isn't easy painting the clothes, but it's fun and you do get better through practice. So far I am being quite unadventurous, but soon I hope to start being braver.
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Thanks sweetie. I am very proud of this one.
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Thank you - I am quite happy with this one.
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Very nicely painted dress Nikki. Love that style of hair too!
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Thanks 
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LOL You truly are in a Sringy mood, aren't ya? lol This turned out gorgeous, hon!!
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Funny isn't it - a few buds on trees, some birdsong and all my pictures are nature packed - guess I'm just a fan of nature!
It took me literally years to try painting clothes, I think now I have a grip on photoshop it's easier for me. Give it a go sometime. 
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LOL I'll give it a go sometime... Still have to get a handle on my Wacom... so used to using a mouse that it's hard to get back used to a pen. lol I don't think I have any drawing talent left since I've gone digital. lol
Oh and YVW!
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Yeah, it's really strange going from mouse to pen. I'm getting better, but sometimes I just ditch the pen and move on with the mouse! It's bizarre trying to retrain myself;
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This time I recognised your work from the thumbnail
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Woo hoo - I'm getting a style!
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Well Iβve sat here trying to think of something sarcastic to write and.......
Iβve failed because......
This is beautiful.
I 
The only area that looks a little amiss [and I hate mentioning it as youβll accuse me of being a perv] is the shading and highlight around her breasts. I also noticed that on your Persephone deviation.
I hope you take it as constructive criticism as I really am blown away 
Beautiful
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Ah... so that's what it takes! 
And of course I take it as constructive criticism.
(And of course I think you are a perve 
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Yes definitely a
The qualities that set this piece apart from some of you other work is that you have managed to find suitable tonal qualities in the background to make the character more realistic and interact better with her environment.
As well as exhibiting a greater level of realism, you have also demonstrated a greater maturity. I do find the baby faced cherubs with an adult womanβs body slightly disturbing...... this picture is all the better for having a more mature and genuinely sensual subject...... a young woman approaching her full bloom..... very appropriate with the Spring theme of the image.
Did I mention what a wonderful job you had done with the hair??? The cascading ringlets look fantastic.
Superb Nikki
Gosh I got all serious for a moment there. Right hereβs a fairy tale joke to go with your
Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self assured princess, happened upon a 
The
" Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome Prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the dapper, young Prince that I once was and then, my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in yon castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so."
That night, the beautiful, young princess contemplated the dayβs events and chuckled to herself:
"Bollocks to that!"
As she dined on a repast of lightly sautΓ©ed
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She's a smart Princess. An onion cream sauce sounds really nice...
I know what you mean about the cherubic models - one of the limitations with Poser and base figures to combine clothes. I wont bore you with the ins and outs but now I'm painting I will be able to use more appropriate body shapes, which I didn't use before because they are harder to fit Poser clothes to.
Glad you liked the hair - about halfway through I thought I'd buggered it up completely, but persevered and it came good in the end. As usual I had no clue what I was doing and was winging it.
Aha - my plan to dominate your gallery is working.... and next; ze vorld!
So glad you liked the picture so much.
Right now... an obligatory frog joke...
Q: Why did the frog go to the hospital?
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A: He needed a "hopperation" !
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Excellent Rendering and postwork
I think both Sarsa and Thorne would be very pleased
I agree fae's are always fun to do
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And Mada too - I have to say those guys are a huge inspiration.
Thanks James and for the
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Yes you are so right Mada too "My Bad" she has given so much sorry Mada"
I agree I spent the first year thinking poser was made for thorneworks and fae's
You are very welcome as well
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Lol - Mada is very forgiving; I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
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So true they are the best
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She is very pretty and I love the dress I think you did a great job. The wings are great too.
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Thank you.
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The pose is nice, too-- it looks like she's getting fitted for the dress!
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It does - good point. She should have had some fairy elf dress fitters flying around with ribbons! *Squirrels away idea for next time...*
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pretty!
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Thank you. It's not easy, I made the odd attempt and gave up - but I began to get fed up with the limits and overuse of poser clothing so I figured this was the only option!
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me too. except i'm exploring the makings of dynamic clothing as my option. i'm lazy
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Dynamic clothing is nice too - but you can't import it into Vue which is a bummer. And I get impatient waiting for the thing to complete it's fall!
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