Friday, February 25, 2011

Character Portraits: An Elf, A Gnome and an Orc

So, I've been working out viable ways of doing character portraits now that I have the studies worked out.  As one might expect all of these pictures are of female characters but fear not!  There are boys in the works.

Nalorani Silvershine Lacey Goodwrench Chekaya Bloodthorn
Read on for more detail...

Monday, February 21, 2011

Character Study: Ayalessa Leannen Winterfall

Last night I sat down and whipped up a new White Cairn Designs background to use with some of my art pieces.  I had in mind the idea of using them to make portraits, character studies and the like, to give them a nice cohesive feel and a recognisable look.
Ayalessa Leannen Winterfall © WCD
I give you the Character Study.  This one, predictably, is of Ayalessa Winterfall.  I'm very happy with how she turned out.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Visitor to the Cairn

This is a girl you're likely to see a lot of.  Her name's Ayalessa, and she's my main character on World of Warcraft.  She's a very common figure in my renders, along with a few of my other characters and those of my loved ones and friends.

If you're familiar with the game you'll recognise her as a female blood elf (sin'dorei).  She's quite young and rather alarmingly clever but has an unfortunately blunt manner.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Predictable Succubus Picture

Here's a picture I was working on a while ago: a succubus!
It's a succubus!
A lot of the character-style images I do tend to be complex and detailed.  This particular one has sections from about five different products available to users of Daz Studio 3 (which I use) and Poser (which I don't).'

Really I'm just posting it here to test out the thumbnail and hosting capabilities of the image host I'm using.

Succubi are fairly common in mythology and have been since the heydays of ancient Judaism.  Lilith was said to be Adam's first wife, who refused to remain with him and later slept with an archangel.  This somehow resulted in her becoming the first succubus (the name of which comes from a Late Latin word, succubu, which means 'strumpet' and ultimately derives from the verb cubare, 'to lie', prefixed with sub-, 'under').

Does this mean that if Lilith had taken the Archangel Samael in cowgirl style she might have become the first incubus (in-, 'on') instead?  The mind boggles...

Either way, this succubus has nice hips.  I think, anyway.

Rendered in Daz Studio 3.

Welcome to the Cairn

Welcome to White Cairn Designs' new site!

This is the place to find all of our designs.  Here you'll find 3D rendered art, mostly, though perhaps also some 2D stuff if you're lucky (and if any gets uploaded).

Have a look around!  More will be posted as it's gotten to.