Filling In the Gaps

I mentioned a few scenes I've done in the last post but I didn't actually post them.  Here y'go, here's a scattered few.

After this 'Read More' break, anyway.

Playing with Lux

Lux is Latin for 'light' and is also the preferred SI unit (International System of Units, or Système international d'unités in French, thus 'SI') of measuring luminescence, the less favoured being the lumen.


It's also a powerful hardware-driven rendering program, LuxRender, and something I've been mucking about with recently.  It's open source (and thus free) and has a number of extremely cool features.  But it's also very slow.  Have a look at these two pictures I rendered up today...

The Sommeil, or Le Sleepers

Yes, the name is a joke.

'The Sommeil' or 'Le Sleepers'

This is a render of Ayalessa and her wife* Velispyr, asleep and smiling after a bit of nuptial naughties, based on the extremely avid painting Le Sommeil by the French Realist painter Gustave Coulbert, finished in 1866.  It was a painting he did for Khalil Bey and is considered one of the finest examples of lesbianism in art to date.  It was not permitted to be shown publicly until 1988 because, well, it's of two obviously post-coital women.  Khalil Bey had a taste for them, apparently.

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.

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.