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“Some people just don’t appreciate a well played violin”
My latest picture featuring Gaston, Taggart and a couple of women in Vendalli’s. This one took a couple of days to do and it started out as just a way to work with the two of them in a scene together and it kind of developed from there.
It shows some insight into the reasons Gaston and Taggart hate each other.
This was a lot of fun to do and I was able to experiment with some shader work as well as explore the variations in the two characters. I think it might be a bit dark, but I may relight it and do another render.
New Art added: Nova and Cassi
Hi all. I’ve been working with Daz Studio over the weekend, being sick and not able to do too much else (cold caught while moving–ick!). So I decided to do a portrait of Nova.
You might not remember Nova too much unless you’re one of the folks whose been with DC for quite a while, but Nova is the name of the Sentient in Alex’s ship. While she isn’t a ‘person’ as most intelligent beings in the Fifth Quadrant are, Nova can create a Projection of herself in any form she feels like. Most of the time, Nova’s Projection takes the form of a young Dirandan female. And Nova’s looked this way in my mind forever. 
So finally, I have been able to do an image of her that does her justice.
The second picture is Cassi. This is Cassandra DeAvalon in the current art style that I have developed for all future Dirandan Chronicles character art. It’s the style that most closely resembles my hand style. At any rate, this new image of Cassi is one that I did a few months ago, I just never uploaded it to the gallery.
…It begins…
I don’t know where else to turn. I understand that you have been able to find things no one else has been able to and although I and my colleagues have been dismissive of your profession in the past, we find ourselves desperate and humbly ask for your help.
My deplorable pride has gotten the better of me and allowed me to fall for the false promises of a truly unscrupulous and evil man. He hired us to find a particular Artifact, one that had been rumored a myth, impossible to find. However, I, in my blind pride, assured him that my team could find anything, even this Reylian Orb of which he was so desirous.
I was wrong.
Now, half of my team is dead. The other half are so exhausted they may welcome death if they are pushed any further. And our employer gives us no respite. If we do not produce the Reylian Orb by the time he arrives, he will feed us to the Rysusi, of that I am certain.
Please, Miss T’Kayn, I ask–no, I beg of you–please help us. If not for me, for my team, who never deserved this.
Professor Darran Cass
New Art: Self Portrait
This is the first self portrait I have done in digital. The morph is a custom one and wasn’t actually intended to turn out as a self-portrait at all, it had been designed for another character, Jastal (a new Chronicles character who will appear in future books). The Jastal character morph is built off of the custom morph I created for a current Chronicles character, converted visually from a male to a female.
The resulting artwork looked similar enough that I ended up using it as a personal avatar for a while. I intended to eventually sit down and use the Jastal morph to make a self portrait avatar, which I finally did Saturday night.
This turned out very nice with only a few hours effort. It certainly helps that I have an i7 and a solid graphics card to handle it. I have two of the renders I have done for avatars in the Others section of the Artwork page.
Cheers!
-JK
“This is me, expressing myself…”
So I quit my job today. After 3 years, I finally had it. Earlier (the last few weeks of 2010), I had decided to make some changes so that I could concentrate on my job more, thinking this would reduce my work-related stress and make it easier to work with the person who shares my office space. This didn’t help. The fellow employee hasn’t changed at all. In fact, things have gotten progressively worse since November (they weren’t that great before) and after a small-ish computer disaster (that this person made seem like a much larger disaster than it actually was) the atmosphere in the office was awful.
Today, this person called me a ‘fucking idiot’ (note, I only use those kinds of words in my writing). That was it for me.
I’m done.
I’ve had it with this person. I actually kind of liked my job and I like my boss, but this person (who has job security, I don’t) has made working at this office a nightmare.
Since I work for my father in law, I’m not walking off the job (like I would otherwise) but I’m working until they hire a replacement (if I can stomach it long enough). Then I’m writing full time and going back to being a stay at home mom, which I like better anyway.
This comes at a really bad time for us, since we’re moving right now.
I hope REB will consider publishing me again.
-JK
Image: Jennifer Aniston in “Office Space”
New Tabitha Bradley website
I am working on building my author website at http://www.tabithabradley.com so that this site can concentrate on the Dirandan Chronicles and my art Gallery.
Some new and interesting things have come up in the several weeks since the convention. I should be finishing up The Reylian Orb soon and will let you know as soon as it’s out and available for sale. This book will be available in print as well as ebook formats and I’m sure Dirandan Chronicles fans will find it intriguing.
I am going to be participating in NaNoWriMo 2010, so if you’re also doing it, drop me a NaNoMail (username: Diranda. Click the image to the left or the link in the blogroll) and I’ll add you to my buddy list.
More news and updates on the website, the book and on the new project I am planning will be posted soon.
Updates and more art
After two weeks of fun with my knee, I’m out of the brace and back to work, it seems. I’ve gotten some significant progress on the Reylian Orb this weekend and am definitely looking at finishing it up shortly. While doing that, I have done two more quick character sketches. One is Kazi Gerik, Samuel’s second and House Commander of VonTesmar, and the other is Joshua Wetfire, the mysterious Head of Security 
from Vendalli’s. Both of these are pretty basic pictures, since I am looking at characterization rather than personality overmuch, but I thought they might be nice to put up anyway.
More very, very soon!
Good Risings,
Tabbi
Whee New art again! Taggart Riordan Character sketches
Hi everyone! New art from my incapacitated knee state.
This time it’s two character sketches of a guy I’ve had trouble capturing in art for some reason (he’s so clear in my head though): Taggart Riordan.
He does have hazel eyes, as opposed to the previous descriptions of emerald. I have thought about that for a while, and hazel just seemed to make more sense for him. It’s actually a kind of green-gold color anyway and it really makes him even more visually interesting to me.
So anyway, these two pics of our resident entirely nasty, completely spoiled, extremely arrogant Regent First Guardian are now in the gallery. Since he 
didn’t really lend himself to typical portrait type pics, I did some kind of character pics. One with Alex portrays the emotion of their relationship, and the other is just a pretty typical “Taggart” type situation: Taggart enjoying himself with two scantily clad women (I would have put more women in the pic, but two was work enough).
New art in the gallery
Being laid up over the weekend with knee surgery, I did some editing on the Reylian Orb and, being in the mood, went ahead and did some art with my shiny
new Dell!
So the new pic in the gallery is inspired by the last scenes in Reylian Orb, with Alex and Gaston working together <gasp!>, to escape Jeron Silstrun’s ship, the Zenon. (Warning: A little Alex nudity (long hair works wonders))
As usual, any comments are welcome. 
New Dirandan Chronicles Art
Yesterday I did three test renders. I have two pictures of Cassi DeAvalon and a new Gaston picture up on the Artwork page in the Dirandan Chronicles gallery.
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