DollsArtCats

Way back in the summer Parrotdolphin and I were supposedly working on some Asian patterns (as in The Great Wave At Lakeshore Drive), while she was actually working on them and I was wrangling koi. In fact, not only did she finish them this month, the patterns are now available at Renderosity.com as PD Oriental Poser Mats, and I used some of them (the dragon scales) on the armor for these two characters. The characters are Tempest for V4,from Daz3d.com, by Gypsyangel, and Matthias for M4 with a different morph set so his face looks different, also by Gypsyangel, at Renderosity.com. The stuff that isn't clothing or faces is mostly painted in Photoshop by me. Parrotdolphin made those little drawings work really, really well for texturing!

An alternate version of the cover I am working on..another mermaid!

Herr Zog has been busy--while I have been ripping out carpet here, she has been doing several different custom dolls. I hadn't noticed this one before,this photo is in "Make up and Mods"; it's a boy version of the classic grey Galena (like Arianne02's Fury, many posts back). The delicate linework amazes me, especially when you remember the entire head fits neatly into your palm. Here's a link to her other new works: Herr Zog's Flickr And here is my own project photo, not nearly as nice:

I blame my friend Candy and the Junky Spot for my doll addiction. Emory Sung runs the Junky Spot, a virtual doll shop, out of his San Francisco home. He has a "real job" as well, but he's a brilliant doll buyer and has managed over the years to have a number of really wonderful, less-expensive and quirky offerings to put in his store. He also has supplies like eyelashes, Vallejo gloss and matte varnishes, occasionally eyes and clothes, and Obitsu parts and dolls as well as various other doll lines. A while back he added Hujoos, which are hard to describe--they are like Pullips with those big, quirky heads, and articulated bodies. They aren't something I was interested in, but now Hujoo has come out with an anthro cat I rather like. I lifted the dark grey one's photo since I liked that resin color best, but they seem to come in white as well. They are 49.95 and last time I looked Emory was charging something like 8.00 for UPS shipping, but you will have to go to...

The photo is from the Astronomy Picture of the Day, Sept.26th, 2012, and the prose poem below is by my friend and fellow artist, Ray Ridenour: "There are particular pictures that appear that strike me as very alien, particularly when they also have the air of everyday. A spaceship on the back of a plane, "retired" with two incredibly designed jets escorting. The quality of the photograph, and the usual crappy urban utopia in the background. This would be an incredibly sharp and telling illustration by Freas, or Finlay in the forties or fifties, pointing towards the bizarreness of the future, and how strange could be the everyday. And I can see myself, on the next page as a smaller illo, surrounded by story. An old man sitting outside in a plastic transit booth, and looking at my personal info tablet, and shaking my head. On the tablet is this same picture but only slightly different, having been taken and loaded onto a social network...

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My friend Karl Kofoed also likes cats, so one of his cats, "Mille" is on an earlier blog post here, and I have another photo of Nium, his other cat, that I will post eventually. Karl is also a remarkable artist, with two unusual talents--he can "see" color in black and white images, perhaps from years in the tv industry dealing with black and white images; and, I swear, he can see into outer space. (He took some of the early Huygens raw data and brought them up to a level of detail that not even the Huygens team could surpass.) He has done some visualizations of Titan and Enceladus that turned out to be scientifically accurate -- some of his images are on the Cassini site. As a sideline to his other art and his photo restoration business, he's been doing the "Galactic Geographic" for years, turning out pages of future history for Heavy Metal Magazine. Recently he updated his website and started uploading pages of it there, if you would like to see t...