Late Update: 5th June!

Hey, it's only more than a month late.





Continuing the Troll Trio series...



An orc futa and a blood elf woman make some heat in Grizzly Hills.

Alley Deals and Updates

Heya, folks.  Pics seem fine and dandy again.  Woo!

Here's a quick status update and, because status updates by themselves are boring, also a picture.

©WCD - Now Serving #17

Draenei!

At last it's under way.  I give you...  A draenei!  And not just a draenei...

Yep, a mini-series of draenic naughtiness!

@.@

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.

Ongoing Projects...

Ah me, ah my.

It's been a little while since an update. I've actually not played with LuxRender since the picture of Aya I posted. I'm doing more work trying to get a wider selection of race types settled. I managed blood elves with no real difficulty (the glaring exception being their ears) and I quite like how Lacey, my gnome female, came out.

Then I turned my hand to the female orc and behold, Chekaya was born. I'm not overly pleased with her as she feels a bit scrawny for my tastes - but then again maybe she just needs to grow on me. She is meant to be fairly young.

A brief return to blood elves in order to create Atryth and I was left wondering 'What next?'

©WCD - Orcs Will Be Orcs

What next indeed.

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.

Atryth and Nalorani!

Atryth is Nalorani's fiancée*.  She's a dancer and businesswoman and has a really nice backside.

Atryth Rubywing

Atryth and Nalorani

This is really just a pair of portraits, one of Atryth Rubywing herself, the other of Nalorani and Atryth together.  Their size difference is significant - Nalorani is well above average height (6'3").  And, of course, that raises a different issue: what is average height for an elf?

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...

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.

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.