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karibous-boutique In reply to lumberlung [2014-10-03 02:34:18 +0000 UTC]

Goodness, you're going to give me a big head!  Don't spend too much time poring over my early stuff.  I keep it in my gallery to remind myself of how much I've learned over the years.  I'm entirely self-taught, so my early work was... awkward, lol.

This piece is one that I am extremely proud of, not only because I feel it's technically and aesthetically sound, but also because I put a lot of thought into the details.  I've always been fascinated by the symbols on tarot cards.  I have collected many, many different decks and I love to pore over the unique interpretations on each card.  There are always written explanations of the cards' meanings in the deck package, but I find it more interesting to absorb the image.  We often feel a more primitive understanding of something via a picture, as opposed to a caption.

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lumberlung In reply to karibous-boutique [2014-10-03 16:53:26 +0000 UTC]

Goodness, you're going to give me a big head!  Don't spend too much time poring over my early stuff.  I keep it in my gallery to remind myself of how much I've learned over the years.  I'm entirely self-taught, so my early work was... awkward, lol.I think it's wonderful — and very healthy — that you can do that. I would rather play frogger on the interstate than look at what I wrote yesterday — forget about what I produced, say, twenty-five years ago, when I first began to "write seriously" (lol). It's also useful for someone like me, and even more so for budding digital artists, to be able to see that trajectory. It helps me understand the fundamentals of your medium better see the growth that I see in galleries are timelines instead of "the greatest hits," and it also sheds some insight into the limitations of the software and hardware that you and your peers have work with and through since this form has been pioneered.
  I have collected many, many different decks and I love to pore over the unique interpretations on each card.(This is the second time that I have caught you using the verb "pore" correctly. I believe that I will pour a libation (only coffee, alas) and toast your skill with the written word.) I think when we reach the kind of point that you describe, yours being that at which you have "many, many different decks," that should be how one approaches things. You know what each card signifies: what becomes valuable is seeing how another artist creates a signifier to convey that meaning.

If you have not, you should find the time for a trip to New Orleans. I can think of one shop in particular that sat near a bar I once frequented that sold nothing but tarot cards and voodoo supplies (there must be a better locution for them than "voodoo supplies" but I have no idea what would be).

We often feel a more primitive understanding of something via a picture, as opposed to a caption.I think there are times, one of them being when a seasoned artist gives another seasoned artist a WIP for a hard critique when it might be valuable to "give it a caption," verbally. "This is what I'm trying to do, but I can't bring it out. Do you have suggestions?" But, as a general rule (and there are always exceptions), captions should be left to curators and critiques. The artist should let the work speak for itself. But that's just my opinion as one who work comes from a primarily "modernist" aesthetic, and there are any number of opinions that are just as valuable.

But, in truth, there are few things in life more tedious than sitting through a poetry reading and listening to a ten minute explication of each poem before the poem, which takes one minute to read, is read.

yrs, Matthew

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karibous-boutique In reply to profutur1971 [2012-12-17 05:37:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I think she's my favorite Tarot render so far.

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karibous-boutique In reply to Ariel-X [2012-10-01 17:32:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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karibous-boutique In reply to Kachinadoll [2012-08-10 22:24:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, sweetie!! I had fun making the whole scale/hourglass thing. Chopped off the base of the scales using 3DS Max, then used Poser's grouping tool to create a material group where the hourglass sits. I made that group transparent, and scaled the hourglass to fit in the gap. I felt very accomplished -- and that was BEFORE I began postwork!

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Kachinadoll In reply to karibous-boutique [2012-08-11 20:13:28 +0000 UTC]

Your most welcome hon! Yay! I love to tinker with models like that as well! It just goes to show how innovative you can be! weeee!

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karibous-boutique In reply to Chance-Karen [2012-08-10 22:21:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, as always! The original render wasn't this bright or contrast-y, but Photoshop is an amazing program! I had fun with this one. And the character texture (PD Nina) is shaded so beautifully -- her skin looked like porcelain.

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karibous-boutique In reply to FreyrStrongart [2012-08-10 22:19:48 +0000 UTC]

I was kind-of hoping she'd be a little dangerous! Walking the line between right and wrong is a little scary!

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karibous-boutique In reply to dragondoodle [2012-08-10 22:18:54 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I was going for the whole "piercing and mysterious" look.

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dragondoodle In reply to karibous-boutique [2012-08-11 04:10:15 +0000 UTC]

It definitely has that quality

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