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It's been awhile since I updated, I've decided to put my gallery move on hold so I could update with something new, just so, you know, you people don't think my limbs have fallen off or something.

I've always had trouble with full body poses, especially movement, so I decided I'd pick a nice dancing pose to practice on. Surfing through Google I found a nice image of a ballet dancer, it really was wonderful, the a perfect mix of muscle, movement, and grace that I was hopping to work on. I think the hardest part for me turned out to be the neck and shoulders, the perspective was much trickier then it seemed. Once the image was done I was left with a faceless, nude sketch, it seemed too good to just leave on paper so I turned it into some gift art.

Malisa is a feline with a little nereid mixed into her blood, she's also the owner of the Blue Jewel over on Furcadia and Blue's new boss. She's a tame house cat, mild mannered and on the prudish side, however things have been changing for her; don't worry, Blue's corrupting her good.

Anyway, I decided that I'd have Malisa dancing on some water, but not just any ordinary water... Glowing water, because lighting and glow effects are teh shit, yo. And I say that because it'll make me seem cool. This gave me a chance to try out some water tutorials and filters in Photoshop, learned a few interesting things while playing around with some of the knobs and buttons. Heh, I said 'knobs'.

I'm rather happy with the way this turned out in the long run, Malisa's role player was very happy to finally have some art for the character's web page. Full view please, careful through, its a large image; sorry dial up users.

Tools and References used:
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Russian Classical Ballet: Natalia Ledovskaya
Water Tutorials [link] [link] [link] [link]
Brush ~exotika-brushes

Copyrights and Inspirations:
Image © Copyright 2006 Raquel Richardson; Please do not copy, alter or redistribute this image.
Malisa © Copyright 2006 ~ranjha
Madredeus - Destino

Description
It's been awhile since I updated, I've decided to put my gallery move on hold so I could update with something new, just so, you know, you people don't think my limbs have fallen off or something.

I've always had trouble with full body poses, especially movement, so I decided I'd pick a nice dancing pose to practice on. Surfing through Google I found a nice image of a ballet dancer, it really was wonderful, the a perfect mix of muscle, movement, and grace that I was hopping to work on. I think the hardest part for me turned out to be the neck and shoulders, the perspective was much trickier then it seemed. Once the image was done I was left with a faceless, nude sketch, it seemed too good to just leave on paper so I turned it into some gift art.

Malisa is a feline with a little nereid mixed into her blood, she's also the owner of the Blue Jewel over on Furcadia and Blue's new boss. She's a tame house cat, mild mannered and on the prudish side, however things have been changing for her; don't worry, Blue's corrupting her good.

Anyway, I decided that I'd have Malisa dancing on some water, but not just any ordinary water... Glowing water, because lighting and glow effects are teh shit, yo. And I say that because it'll make me seem cool. This gave me a chance to try out some water tutorials and filters in Photoshop, learned a few interesting things while playing around with some of the knobs and buttons. Heh, I said 'knobs'.

I'm rather happy with the way this turned out in the long run, Malisa's role player was very happy to finally have some art for the character's web page. Full view please, careful through, its a large image; sorry dial up users.

Tools and References used:
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Russian Classical Ballet: Natalia Ledovskaya
Water Tutorials [link] [link] [link] [link]
Brush ~exotika-brushes

Copyrights and Inspirations:
Image © Copyright 2006 Raquel Richardson; Please do not copy, alter or redistribute this image.
Malisa © Copyright 2006 ~ranjha
Madredeus - Destino