First I want to say ahead of time a big thank you to anyone who
me or adds me to their watch list. My online time is very limited and making it to DA on a regular basis has been & will be difficult. Please forgive me for delays or oversights.
Holy crappers, I have completed so many of these "about you"s here lately. I am getting tired of talking about myself cause I am really boring. It would be more exciting if I were someone famous or someone who did exciting things all of the time like travelling alot or lived someplace really cool, or was even really good at what I do cause then I could just slap up some work and hide behind it and throw up some fog brush work and say "POOF! Look at what I can do!" and everyone would be like "Oooooo!" and be all mesmerized and in awe by my awesome sauce. But, here you are, reading about another boring person with, well, let's be honest about it, probably not a very good sense of humor to anyone but herself, and is just another fantasy artist who happens to be inspired by... what was that? Oh yeah, not anything like everyone else... GAMING, yeah, I am unique huh? LOL.
Ok, so about me, yep, I am a gamer and have been for longer than alot of viewers have even been alive maybe cause I am a grandma. My grandson does have a great great grandmother & great great grandfather alive & all of his great grandparents though so I am not ancient; I am only half as old as dirt. I am only a few years older than Pong and it was the first video game that I played and I grew up with Atari and all kinds of other video games so when I say gamer, I mean GAMER. I am into MMORPGs & have been since early 2000 when I got my first computer. Most of my work is inspired by the games I have & do play and are of the characters that I have created over the years. Yes, I have a connection with all of my characters. I not only have spent countless hours playing them, but I spend days or weeks, sometimes even months in some cases creating a character so once she is made, she tends to be permanent and stays with me for years & follows me from game to game. Each has their own story & history. Some are siblings, some are bonded to each other by guild family or by marriage. Why is all of this important one might ask? Well because this is what makes me the artist that I am - it was my gaming that got me into my art & what keeps me at it.
I am a self taught artist. Been at this since Aug 2011. I think in that time I have completed around 10 pieces now and that is not including my masterpiece. I am not releasing that one to the public though because it is so awesome that it would fry everyone's brains to stew before burning everyone's eyeballs out of their sockets then because of the vocal reaction of the people who saw it, due to the nature of its content, it would cause our sun to go super nova resulting in a black hole sucking in at the very minimum our entire galaxy... you see what kind of galactic impact my masterpiece would have if I released such awesome sauce? Trust me, I must be a responsible person and leave it to be released after I am long gone and when humans and technology can handle such things, ROFL.
Photoshop & Gimp are my worst enemies. I will work in Gimp before Photoshop but I can't load my brushes into it or it crashes and I have ZERO clue how to put my brushes, FX, & actions into photoshop. I have PSP X4 but haven't even tried to figure it out yet - again, self teaching it all. Right now the only work I do in any of these programs is adding in any copyright & logo layers. Which until recently have been constantly changing cause I could not make up my stinking mind lol.
I work exclusively in DAZ Studio 4 Pro right now. I have Poser Pro 2012 but am still learning. My work takes me forever to do; I do so much tweaking, fine tuning, microscopic changes that it is not funny. Soooo, it is my hope that the rumors about DA are not true cause I put too much work into my art for people to say that because I do work in DAZ it is not art. Now, if you want to say that me and ONLY ME doing work (right now) in Poser is not art, I will be happy to back that up with a render of my carnations in a vase. Now, they look pretty, but it is on the default brown screen and all I did was pop them in there, and after hours of not being able to figure out how to put a background or anything else in there, I gave up and hit -RENDER- LOL.
I can handle constructive criticism - you know, the kind that says, "hey, this or that is a little off or looks a little off or might look better if you did something a little different - but, I have some advice for you on your piece that might be helpful...yada yada yada". What I cannot handle are flames or blatant disrespect. If you do not like my work, it is as simple as going on to another piece by someone else or closing your browser. Not all of my work is for little eyes and I WILL error on the side of caution when it comes to my work being flagged for filters. I would rather flag it and it not need to be than to not & there be trouble over it.
Ok, I think this is it for now. My brain feels like it is going to explode. I am a chatter so the need to go on and on about anything and everything is getting harder to control.
One last important bit about me, this is not my original DA account. When I first started off, I had no clue what I was doing (like I know everything now LOL), I hadn't decided on an art name, and I needed to start a deviant art account quick out of necessity. After the first several months with this first DA account, I finally realized I was in this to stay and figured out some answers to some questions and most importantly, my artistic identity. I will be working to move my work from LadyBree1703 over to here and close that ID down. I hope this will explain some of the "signature" differences on the art itself & the fact that when I move them over here, they show up as new work even though they are not - Nor are they ripped off pieces LOL.