Fun with Daz Studio, Photoshop and Filter Forge 9
I should be writing, shouldn’t I? 😉
Tag: Digital Art
Wow, it’s been almost a year
Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?
Looks back at the past year. Yep. No…
Anyway, feeling a bit cruddy–though I don’t think it’s…IT–and thought I’d start posting my daz/photoshop images again.
I think since I last posted I’ve improved my use of light. And there’s always the fun of photoshop.
Trust
It’s been an age since I posted here… Bad me!
I’m getting a bit more ambitious in my scenes.
This took 11 hours–or more–to bake and turned out quite well, with only a minimal bit of post work in Photoshop.
If you want to catch up on my images, head over to Instagram, or I’m also now on DeviantArt.
#digitalart #fantasyart
Stranded
I was sorting through Daz content that I hadn’t used…and this happened.
I do love to play it retro 🙂
I’ve also working on a mixture of stuff for post working. I was layering in light , rendering each individual light source, but that, whilst giving great control, makes for so many laborious renders and huge Photoshop files.
Then I stumbled over canvases, where you have layers generated within the Daz render. They are also huge files and I trash them after I’ve used them in an image. My harddrive is struggling as it is! I’m finding using canvases very hit and miss. What will work like a dream for one image is a hot mess for another.
This image has one, maybe two canvases at a low opacity. Mostly this is good old dodge and burn.
Onwards to finding a system and a style that works for me!
#digitalart #retroart #scifiart
Space Medusa
I’ve been bad at not updating here. My Instagram account is a good place to catch up.
And the light on this one was a bit of a mare.
I’m still flailing my way around Daz Studio, so I may have it wrong, but I had to delete a shedload of lights that came with this Scifi background. There was an egregious amount and my machine can only take 8. After that, there was lots of fiddling with dome settings and the annoyance that is the Sun-Sky thing…
I am happy with the end result though. This image has no post work on it and I think it stands up okay.
#digitalart #scifiart #spacemedusa
Moar Dragons!
Yes, I’m back to making stuff for books I haven’t written yet… Oops? This’ll probably be the image for the second book.
And silly me–I thought that creating a subscene would help me with the lighting…*insert hyena laughter* also add *10 hours later* in a SpongeBob narrator voice, because of course that didn’t work with a complete change of colours and pose. Silly me.
Though I am happy with the end result–after walking away from my computer. Twice. 😉
There’s another dragon brewing. But a trebuchet went free today. So that could get a play with, after I’m a dutiful author and actually write. Covers are useless without the words under and between them, after all.
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#digitalart ##fantasyart #dragons #novellas
Back to Book Covers
I originally started working with Daz3D because I couldn’t find dragon shapes I liked on stock photo sites…so I’m finally getting to use it for the original purpose two months later. 😉
I’m quite liking this image and the mock-up I have for the actual cover of A Dragon Courts Her is looking good too.
I really should get to finishing the actual book, though. I’m on the home stretch now!
#digitalart #fantasyart #dragons
Still Learning…
I’m not really happy with this image. I really like the costume…but I can never get it to work with anything! And something about this whole scene is a bit…bleurgh.
What I do like–and I learnt from playing about with the rock I left in the scene–was how to puppet wrap an image. Which is how the magical symbols are around the sword. So I am pleased with that. 🙂
#digitalart #magic #ritual
Woodland Sun
I’ve gone all Julie Bell again…
This image is mainly due to my need to light this particular woodland setting, which has been annoying me for weeks. So yay for that.
Also, I got the Genesis 8 morph sets going cheap, so I’ve been playing about with muscles. If only I could tone as easily with a few clicks and slides of a dial…says anyone ever making 3d art stuff! 😉
#digitalart #fantasyart
Angry Wet Cyber Angel. With Tattoos
…because it’s Wednesday.
Lighting again…so difficult. It’s almost impossible for me to work out–spatially–where the camera is or where it’s pointing. There must be an easier why to to it…and I will find it one day when I wade thought the mass of tutorials.
My eyes glaze when I start, to be honest… 😉
On the plus side, I learnt how to make rain in Photoshop. So there’s that! 🙂
#digitalart #fantasyart #cyborg #angel
KIM KNOX 