Test render done in Vue 8 Pioneer – so far me like-y. Yeah – the house is funky and the eagle in the background has as much life as a statue, but I got the results I wanted. Awesome skies, and easy to use environments. Only down side is the renderer is slow as  molasses in a Montana winter. Now onto something a little more ambitious than stock models out-of-the-box.

If anyone wants more info about Vue, follow the link below. The first one is free. bwahahahaha!

I do actually have a piece of May done that I want to turn into shirts, and another of Ebin that just need s couple final touches before I can post them. Hopefully, by next Monday I’ll have that new May price to show along with the T-Shirts and the WIP scan of Ebin.

It doesn’t help that, on top of my work on the Radio Comix/SinFactory Comix site, I have been experimenting with Vue again. Love that program, but it is slooooow when it comes to renders. Also, instead of grabbing the PLE version of the high end package, I downloaded and installed the base program, Vue Pioneer.

The difference between the two is that the PLE locks you out of saving your work, while the other is a base package and to get all the really nifty features, you have to pay. For me, that’s not a bad deal, pay-as-you-go for the features I’d actually use, is a good thing. While buying the full package in one lump sum would be more cost effective, when your living by the skin of your teeth, paying piece-meal is a good option. And now I have a system to actually use it on, I is a happy artist. Down side though is to get something to show you guys, I’d have to pay for the render upgrade, which I can’t do right now (the base renderer is awesome for stills, but suffers from flickering when animated). So until them Vue will be relegated to “learning and poking” usage.

Once I finish getting RC/SFC upgraded and into mataince mode, I’ll be back onto the comics and animation. Paid work before fun work. That is if I can pull myself away from learning Vue long enough to do said things. ^.^

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Another large painting I did as a wrap-up to my Liberty from Hell comic. This is one of my larger pieces I’ve done and has been hence named the painting of Damocles #2 (#1 sold), as this currently hanging over my roommates bed, threatening to kill him the next time we get a big earthquake.

I was really please in how this painting came out, thou it seems to bring a cold response in viewers. Meh – I like it.

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Prints: Available
Original: For Sale
Other Products: Coming soon

I can X-post from WordPress to other WordPress and WordPress to Live Journal, But I’d really be happy if I could X-post between WordPress and FA and WordPress and DA.

If not, no worries, but I thought I would ask.

I’m also working on Ads for Project Wonderful for my personal art site in the meantime.

Been spending the day adding new products based off Fox Surprise to Zazzle. Also somewhat reformatted my entry so that instead of just text links to the different products, it actually shows you little thumbnails of the products at the bottom of the image post.

Fox Surprise now has: Totes, Cards, Postcards, Mousepads, Stickers, Magnets, Buttons, Keychains, Mugs, T-Shirts

More site changes coming and new products to be offers.

Desert Rose deck up in pearls for her appearance at a charity dinner on the arm of Senator Mrragi. Though some do wonder if it’s Mrragi who’s on her arm instead.

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Prints: Available
Original: SOLD
Other Products: no

Woot! I have a logo for branding purposes. It’s all vectored and everything so it can scale up and down without loosing resolution.

^.^

Now, I have to magically come up with the money to register it along with getting the basic start-up costs of the business. All said and done, that’ll probably run me about $800.00 (estimate, rounded up). I’m hoping that I can fudge some initial sales to get the ball rolling. Well, I can hope anyways.

Traditional watercolor

An illustration I did for a short story, Memories in Ash, that I was writing at the time. Hopefully, I’ll get back to it soon.

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Print: Available
Original: SOLD
Other Products: no