Return to Venice

Who wouldn't want to go back to Venice? Ya gotta see it before it sinks, after all...

A while ago I posted a couple of images of Candy/Duster in Stonemason's beautiful Venezia Suite digital set. One featured Candy alone (and in my previous blog post I shared a variation of that one), while the other one had Bill in the background. Of course that set is so gorgeous that I'm going to keep returning to it.

Which is what I have done here. Bill's a healthy, red-blooded young man, and a guy like that can only gaze upon Candy's voluptuous form in that revealing baby doll for so long before he just has to do something about it. Not that she minds; she possesses a high-level of vigour and similarly-coloured corpuscles, after all. I went through my pose collection, focusing on the section innocently titled "Interacting Figures" and found a really hot pose for V6/M6. I customized it a little (expressions, Candy clawing at one breast, shifting some of her hair into her face).

As you might know, Candy is a highly-customized version of Victoria 6 (so customized that Olympia 6 poses sometimes suit her better), while Bill started out as a Michael 6 figure. One thing I often have to do with Candy/Duster in these poses where she interacts with another figure (or with a prop) is change her scale from its customized 96% to her default 100%. The poses are designed with figures at their default size, so by returning her to that dimension I don't have to spend nearly as much time fine-tuning her pose.

Bill is also larger than the default Michael 6. To get him to the 6' 3" height I ascribe to him in my fiction I have to dial up his scale to 106.5% in Daz Studio. This means when I put him and Candy together there's a significant height difference, which I really like; I think it emphasizes her femininity and his masculinity. As you might expect sometimes I have to change his scale back to the default 100% so he works with poses like this. Amazingly, not this time. With Candy at 100%, they fit together perfectly. And yes I mean that in every sense of the word. I quite like how this turned out and may do more images of their vacation in Venice... during which they rarely got out of that hotel room.

Now for some recent tests and experiments.

I recently introduced a new nemesis for Duster: Colonel Chaos I call him. Ex-military gone bad. I don't think I'll give him superpowers. For background I'm thinking he's become a mercenary, a soldier-of-fortune currently employed by the Syndicate, thus setting him at odds with superheroines everywhere. I wanted to give him a very rough, menacing, battle-hardened look. This guy's seen some shit (with that one good eye), but more to the point, he did a lot of that shit. And slept like a baby afterwards. I think his concept syncs nicely with Mindless Entertainment/Anti-Leaf's villain, The General.

I also recently added SouthBlade's OC (and frequently luckless) heroine Solstice to my roster in a pinup and a peril image. I thought this might be a good place to share the test renders I created for the character.

 

Here's another test image I don't think I've shared before: my friend and collaborator EXitZero's OC heroine Flechette (who is featured in my novella Flechette: Mesmerized, available at Smashwords and Amazon) as well as a recent artwork series I used to promote that book:

And here are two figures I recently added to my content library: Natasha and Sheryl. The former became the basis for my version of Cracovia's Fenrir agent Chimaera, while the latter I used to create Doctor-Awkward's bodacious punk-turned-heroine Vigor.




















On to the fashion show!

First off let's focus on the world of work. Here's Candy in a sexy pizza girl outfit. I think I should dress up someone in this costume and have her chloroform, kidnap, and tie up PizzaNerd1, don't you? Turnabout is fair play, after all.

The other outfit is called "Job Interview". I'd say she's qualified for just about any position she wants... heh heh... position, get it? Huh? HUH?

Yeah okay.




















Now for some costumes I think could work for either a new superheroine or supervillainess. Feel free to contribute ideas, here or back at Deviant Art.




















And last but not least, some sexy lingerie and dresses.






































And that's it for this blog post!

Master Strokes, Variations, and More

Let's start things off with a bang. (Heh, see what I did there? If not, you will in a moment...) This is a commission from fellow Deviant Maltorramus featuring his Original Character, MMA Fighter and crime-fighter Misa, along with my gal Duster in a... rather compromising situation.

I usually wait to post a blog entry when I have an image like this that won't pass muster (or the acceptable content guidelines) at Deviant Art. Sometimes they're commissions, sometimes they're just racy stuff that bubbles up from my fetid imagination. This is a bit of both. Maltorramus specified the overall situation and I filled in the details, including the dialogue.

I'm pretty flexible with what my commissioners want. Sometimes they want to give me a complete script, especially for a series. I'm okay with that; makes my job easier. Sometimes they just ask for a very general scenario and leave it up to me to fill in all the blanks. That's cool too, it leaves me with some creative elbow room. 

Now we will get to the usual fashion show, but first here are a few variations from other D.A. posts I've created recently.

Recently I posted an image leveraging Stonemason's wonderful Venezia Suite environment. I also posted a second image of Candy in the same environment but on her own, kneeling on the bed. I actually rendered and postworked two different versions of that image. The differences are subtle (hint: mostly in her facial expression), but they're there. The second one is what I chose to post at D.A.




















Here's a test image of Candy wearing the full outfit that includes the baby doll teddy I used in these Venezia Suite images. The content creator named the outfit "Touch of Death". Go figure. I thought it worked better as lingerie than as totally impractical vampire-slaying garb or whatever its creator had in mind.

Next, a couple more artsy-fartsy images of Candy. These ones I used for a recent commissioned image set in an art gallery. I decided that Candy herself is a work of art and deserved to be displayed there. I created two versions of this image. I used the coloured one in the commissioned image, but I like the black and white one too.





















Of course besides Candy and her friends I also collect additional digital figures so I can create other characters. Here's a new one. Her name is Sheryl. Isn't she lovely? Looks like a heroine about to get into peril to me. 😉

All right, fashion time. I started doing this just as a way to make use of the many test images I create whenever I acquire new digital outfits. But in the past I've also received feedback based on some of these costumes that have led me to use them in full HQ renders. So by all means if you really like one of these outfits and would like to see me do more with it, let me know.


First off, here are a couple of costumes that I think would suit a villainess. I'll have to see about creating some more bad girl characters to make use of these outfits.





















Here's a fancy "poolside" outfit which has not only different material ("texture") choices, but also the option to remove the underlying bikini. Ooh-la-la.





















And finally some other outfits. I think the first one makes Candy look like the star of some Fellini movie.





















...and that's it for now! See ya in the funny papers!