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Well, this one was interesting The other night, I was thinking of rendering something but wasn't sure just what. An art friend on Facebook suggested "something whimsical" and I figured I would render my cute Aiko 3 character Brandi. I added a twist, however. I found an app online that allowed me to roll letter dice, to correspond with content that would start with the letter I rolled. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I gathered an outfit, character texture and hair model. Since the combination lent itself a fantasy-type feel, I loaded a Cyclorama with a fantasy-type background. I sat Brandi on a completely random object, yet somehow it works; a sundial! And of course, it would not have been complete without a pair of wings. So in the end, I did indeed create something whimsical, because I don't normally render fantasy images and to date this is only the SECOND faerie/pixie images I have ever created

And it gets better. I posted the image on Facebook Wednesday morning. By that evening 18 people had "liked" it, nearly half of whom are not on my friend list. One of them told me she liked it so much, she's having it inked on her arm this weekend AND the artist who created the outfit you see here showed up on the comment thread!

I think I have said already that February of this year was very good to me, and 2012 so far has also been very good to me. The good vibes are continuing. My piece is very popular on Facebook (for me anyway) and has the most "likes" I have ever seen in a single day. My commissioned Tiffany character has become the profile picture of admirers, friends whom I know outside of Facebook have followed suit with my renditions of them, people are tagging themselves to my work, and has over 1400 views and 101 favorites! I was almost in tears this past Monday with the seemingly sudden outpouring of appreciation of my work. And now this image. It feels almost unreal. And I am so humbled by it.

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Well, this one was interesting The other night, I was thinking of rendering something but wasn't sure just what. An art friend on Facebook suggested "something whimsical" and I figured I would render my cute Aiko 3 character Brandi. I added a twist, however. I found an app online that allowed me to roll letter dice, to correspond with content that would start with the letter I rolled. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I gathered an outfit, character texture and hair model. Since the combination lent itself a fantasy-type feel, I loaded a Cyclorama with a fantasy-type background. I sat Brandi on a completely random object, yet somehow it works; a sundial! And of course, it would not have been complete without a pair of wings. So in the end, I did indeed create something whimsical, because I don't normally render fantasy images and to date this is only the SECOND faerie/pixie images I have ever created

And it gets better. I posted the image on Facebook Wednesday morning. By that evening 18 people had "liked" it, nearly half of whom are not on my friend list. One of them told me she liked it so much, she's having it inked on her arm this weekend AND the artist who created the outfit you see here showed up on the comment thread!

I think I have said already that February of this year was very good to me, and 2012 so far has also been very good to me. The good vibes are continuing. My piece is very popular on Facebook (for me anyway) and has the most "likes" I have ever seen in a single day. My commissioned Tiffany character has become the profile picture of admirers, friends whom I know outside of Facebook have followed suit with my renditions of them, people are tagging themselves to my work, and has over 1400 views and 101 favorites! I was almost in tears this past Monday with the seemingly sudden outpouring of appreciation of my work. And now this image. It feels almost unreal. And I am so humbled by it.

DS4P/UE2/GIMP