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Hello, all you groovy hep cats!


Well, I am open for commissions. Right now, my mind is blank when it comes to image and story ideas. But I want to do things! So, why not do YOUR ideas.


I will take up to Ten for the month of March. Let's see where that goes. Comment here if you want to hire me, and I'll add your name to the list. Then, send me a note with your idea and we'll talk about it.


Please give me 72 hours to finish your commission. That darn arrhythmia and heart procedure took more out of me than I expected, and I'm still getting back on my feet. But it's better than having the stroke I was about to have.


Current Client List:

1 Dragon11003

2 Exeter42

3 Member9

4 ACWhite1994

5 Bauerman1978

6 LoneStranger

7 Razzia3124

8 Eskanor

9 KnightWriter666

10 Legatron72


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COMMISSION GUIDELINES


Browse my gallery to see if my style and subjects suit your idea. My specialties are fantasy and superheroine with an emphasis on fluid action scenes (my inspiration is Frank Frazetta), and newspaper cartoon type jokes. Send me a note with your idea and we’ll talk about it.


PRICES:


Base Price: $30 per image, up to three characters in each image. I will do up to three scenes of one storyline with the same characters before I consider the project a serial.

Additional Character(s) beyond Three: $10 for each additional character (even my rendering beast starts choking on four, so multiple character scenes are time consuming). Background characters, such as passersby on the street or revelers in a tavern, are billboards, or cardboard cutouts. They aren’t 3D characters and don’t use computational resources. I won’t charge for them.

Character Setup: $15 for character setup. If I don’t already have the character created. This is a ONE TIME fee. Once the character is created, you never pay for her or him again.

Asset Modification: $10. Meaning, if I have to take an outfit into Hexagon to rip it to shreds for your image, I’ll charge you for the time. Those are extreme situations, and probably won’t ever happen.

3D Assets: This varies, and isn’t a guaranteed line item. It depends on if I have to buy something for your image, and it isn’t something I’d use for my own art. I’ll charge you half of what I paid. This is also a one time fee. Once I have it, I have it and can be used in any other project of yours going forward.

Comic Elements: As in voice balloons, narrator thoughts, etc. I’m not going to charge you for that on one to three images. Consider it a courtesy of the house.

Serials: As in a series of more than three scenes with one storyline, or an actual comic. Right now I can’t commit to a long term project. My health is still unstable. But we can talk about it. If I do agree to do it, that price will be negotiated. Obviously, a six panel comic page would be prohibitive at $30 per panel! I mean, I’ll take it if you have the cash to pay it.

There may be additional charges for unusual projects (see the Rules section below). I will never slip a hidden fee into the job. You will know how much the commission will be up front, before I ever begin work. If I do have to charge extra, I’ll let you know as soon as I know, and you can decide what to do.


RULES:

1. I have to be able to do the scene to begin with. As a 3D artist, I’m limited to clothes and sets that can be purchased. If it doesn’t exist, I can’t make the scene exactly like you want. If something similar exists, I’ll tell you and we can talk about changes to the concept. If it doesn’t exist at all, we’ll work out a new scene.

2. I am much more comfortable and competent with fantasy and superheroine than other genres. I know those. I can work in science-fiction, jungle, war, western, horror, but may fumble a bit.

3. I have to be interested in your idea. Oh, I can render anything, but if I’m not emotionally engaged in the concept, it’s going to show. You don’t want a bored artist. If I’m not interested in your idea, I’ll recommend someone who may be.

4. I will definitely use your characters.

5. I will use the character of another DA artist, provided you have permission for me to use her or him. I would rather know the other artist. That not only guarantees we both have permission, but I have a working idea of that character’s personality.

6. I will use my characters, but I’m picky about them. I will do a heck of a lot more with your character than I will mine. I will use Aura, Katie, Stephanie, Jessica, Desiree, Sherman, and I’ll even call Andromeda out of retirement. Ask me about them first, and don’t be surprised if I decline. This is especially true of Aura.

7. I WILL do the following: classical fantasy, action, superhero/ine, slice of life, obviously jokes, nudity, eroticism within the DeviantArt TOS (unless it’s a private image for your own collection, in which case I can go further), naked bondage peril, murder aftermath (it isn’t a mystery story without a body), violence (standard comic book and action movie type fights). I do have a bawdy sense of humor, and am the most politically incorrect man you're likely to meet, so don't shy away from boobs, butts, and knees. The best way to tell what I will do is browse my gallery. If I’ve done it before, I’ll likely do it again.

8. I will NOT do the following: Incest, scat, vore, actual violation, dismemberment, execution, actual moment of death, mind control (that one’s personal), statufication, Female Muscle Growth (on my characters, we can talk about yours), female boxing matches (they just get boring after the 34th image), futas. Again, browse my gallery. If you don’t see it, I probably won’t do it.

9. Minors. I will do a scene of a teen or child being rescued, because that’s an accepted trope, but for the kid’s sake (and mine), keep the scene rated PG.

10. Multiple Limbed or Headed Characters. I can … I’d rather not. There are a lot of caveats with this concept. This requires a figure within a figure, and I’d charge you for each because of computer resource and time usage. Six arms is three figures is $45 per final character. That one character also qualifies as all three for the base $30 image, so anyone else is an additional figure. This sort of image is just hard on the computer. Same with heads and breasts. I won’t put a multiple limbed character in clothing. It’s impossible for me. There are no clothes that fit, and I don’t have those kind of Photoshop skills. A Barsoom type character is feasible, but expensive.

11. All nudes and seminudes MUST be at least 18 years of age. And look like adults. No 250 year old Drow who looks 13, and no 13 year old mutant who looks 35.

12. No real life people. For one thing, that’s asking for us both to face a hefty lawsuit. For another, I’m not really impressed with the 3D models of real celebrities. Now, I can and will use Scarlet Johannson’s face for Black Widow. It’s a caricature anyway. Which leads me to …

13. Mainstream Characters. This is thin ice. Sorta. We can get away with it if it’s parody. For instance, Batgirl being tied up is parody, especially if you tag it as such in the description. You’re just joking about a trope that happens in the comics anyway. Or, change the name to a blatant pun like Fledermausgal. Fan Art may be stickier. On some days, Marvel and DC don’t care. On others … It depends on the moods of Disney and Warner, and right now, they aren’t in good moods. This goes for Star Trek and Star Wars, too. And don’t forget the DeviantArt TOS prohibits the aging for prurient reasons of a mainstream character who is established to be a minor. Yeah, no stripper college age Kim Possible.

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Hello, all you groovy hep cats!


Dangerguy01 recently wrote about his favorite (or favourite) environments. Check it out here:

That's a great subject! Not only do we learn about each other's artistic processes, but we get tips for sets we don't know about. So, here are some of mine.


My philosophy for writing a story is the environment is a character. I want the reader to not just see it in his or her mind, but hear it, smell it, and feel it. That further engages the reader's emotional sense. I have the same philosophy with a render. Fortunately, it's much easier in 3D, which visually is a still from a movie, than the more abstract panel in a comic book or painting.


Back in my Reality days (good God, that was ten years ago!), I was a fanatic about the set. I'd spend an entire week constructing a set of Homeric proportions and Parisian grandeur, only to realize it swallowed the story and characters, and rip it all out and rebuild it. That taught me to build the set after I composed the concept and characters.


I like to kitbash a set. It's rare for me to use a set right out of the box just like it is. I'm an old model railroader, so I still think a model ... or 3D environment ... is a box full of raw materials. Just because a component is in this set doesn't mean I have to use it, and just because that component is in a second set doesn't mean I can't use it. That lets me use the same six environment kits over and over, while maintaining freshness. Those of you with a sharp eye will have spotted the times I reuse walls or lamps.


The problem with working in both the Fantasy and Superheroine genres is I need to split my hard drive space between Medieval sets and props, and Modern sets and props. Those are two different concepts. In the past few years, the Medieval set category has exploded in options and quality. I'm like a kid in a candy store! Modern is still lagging behind. Ever notice how apartments are either dingy, grubby post-apocalyptic horror sets or places only a major corporate CEO could afford? Not much that looks like the world we live in. It's pretty much the same with cities. But I do what I can.


MEDIEVAL / FANTASY


MICK (Medieval Interior Construction Kit), by Faveral


https://www.daz3d.com/mick-bundle


MICK is literally a box of components. He does include a few assembled rooms, but mostly these are walls, floors, ceilings, and furniture for you to assemble as you wish. This set is useful for a more elegant fantasy room.


I used a floor, window, and wall from MICK here:

Everything here (except Aura) is from MICK:

MICK floor, wall, window, and column:

Medieval Fantasy Bedroom and Red Crow Inn, both by Rougey


https://www.daz3d.com/rog-medieval-fantasy-bedroom


https://www.daz3d.com/rog-red-crow-inn


Both of these are highly detailed sets for a bedroom and a tavern. The sets do come with premade environments that are actually usable right out of the box. Like MICK, I raid them for props and architectural details for kitbashing. They provide parts of a good third of my fantasy scenes. You'll be able to spot the floor chandelier and wall sconce.


The floor and wall are from Medieval Fantasy Bedroom, while the lamps are from Red Crow Inn:

The wall is actually the ceiling, turned on its side and scaled down to 50%.


All from Medieval Fantasy Bedroom:

All Red Crow Inn:

More Medieval Fantasy Bedroom:

Again, with the Bedroom, and that floor chandelier:

One of the few times I've used a set out of the box. All Red Crow Inn:

At the Inn Redux

I used the door from Red Crow Inn and walls from Medieval Bedroom for the background here:

Do you think I like that floor chandelier?


A Serious Dungeon, by Powerage:


https://www.daz3d.com/serious-dungeon


This is a darn good goto set for a basic dungeon. Those of you into SHiP might want to consider it. It mixes well with Davo's props. It also makes for a good dark set without dungeon implications.


Just a few times I used it:

There's that floor chandelier again! Also, see what I mean about Davo's props?

Castle Gravestone, by The Management:


https://www.daz3d.com/castle-gravestone-dungeon-bundle


This is relatively new in my arsenal. Like Rougey's sets, it comes with both pre-assembled rooms and hallways, and a wide variety of individual parts. It's grim. Talk about an environment for a dark fantasy scene.

The Castle Door

Most of the examples are on ArtUntamed. I couldn't post them here because they crossed the TOS line big time.


Modular Ruins, by Stonemason:


https://www.daz3d.com/modular-ruins


Talk about a collection of raw materials! I love this set. In the past, a few of you commented how many times you see the wall and floor used over and over. It is older, and has to be converted to Iray. However, it does take retexturing quite well.


Stock use:

Retextured:

Gothic Construction Kit, by Stonemason:


Alas, this one is NLA now. It was one of the first 3D assets I bought way back in 2009. Like Modular Ruins, it still looks good and takes retexturing well. The kit contains a floor, wall, window wall, wall with gate, vaulted ceiling, and two types of columns. If you can get your hands on it ...


Just a few times I've used it recently:

It's the floor chandelier again! Also, the wainscotting from Medieval Fantasy Bedroom.

MODERN


As far as I'm concerned, the king in the Modern category is Stonemason. The primary environments of his that I use are ...


Urban Sprawl 3


https://www.daz3d.com/urban-sprawl-3


There aren't too many environment sets that include individual buildings. This one does, and I abuse it.


Great rooftop environments:

Dark Side of the City and Urban Alley


I use these two so much, and interchangeably, I can't tell which I used for what scene in my gallery. So, here they both are.


https://www.daz3d.com/the-dark-side-of-the-city


https://www.daz3d.com/urban-alley

Second to Stonemason are


Iray Brickworx, by KindredArts


and


Homestyle Iray, by J Greenlees


https://www.daz3d.com/iray-brickworx


https://www.daz3d.com/homestyle-iray-shaders


Wait. Those are texture sets, you say. Yeppers. They look darn good on simple planes for rooms. Yes, I cheat! The benefits of three years in college theatre is I know how to use a flat.


Brickworx has a wide variety of stone and brick walls, while Homestyle features wood, tile, and carpeted flooring, and walls in paint, stucco, or wallpaper. The result is easy on the resources, and often provides the basis for a modern room that is otherwise lacking in the DAZ store.


I'll just show you a few times I used "flats" for a room. You can go through my gallery and see exactly how much I use this technique.

You ought to recognize that wallpaper.

Monotober 2023: Video Game

So, what are your favorite environments?


I may have to do a follow up on my favorite pose sets. There are a few that form the foundation for 75% of my renders.


And that's the way it is, Friday, February 16, 2024 (where is this year going?). All y'all groovy hep cats treat yourselves kindly today, you hear?

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I consider most of you my friends. Meaning, you would be welcome crossing my threshold, which is a rare occasion.


So, when I ask you to help me out here, I trust you.


Here's the problem. I'm short circuiting myself financially. It keeps me from making commissions. It keeps me from positioning my YouTube videos for monetization. It keeps me from making a profit on the Aura novel, and likely keeps me from writing the next one(s).


The problem?


I AM AN EFFETE SNOB!


The mere idea of making money doing something I love makes me feel like a mercenary, a sellout, a bloody HACK!


In my mind, I know that's batshit crazy. There is nothing wrong with finding financial security doing what you love. It's the American dream, after all. One of the best job advice books I read was Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow. Heck, even Cormack McCarthy stopped living in his car and moved into an apartment (granted, it was after Oprah Winfrey dragged him kicking and screaming into the spotlight). If a writer who refused to use punctuation can move up in the world financially, what's my problem?!


Well, my heart is a different matter.


There has always been a disconnect between my mind and my emotions. If my emotions are not engaged, I can't do something. Right now, when it comes to having enough cash to move from a worn out apartment we've lived in since 2011, the emotions win. And that's stupid!


So, talk to me. Convince me that my emotions are wrong! Convince me my mind is right.

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Hello, all you groovy hep cats.


Yesterday was a quiet birthday. It came and went with a little more than the usual introspection, but none of the depression and dread that accompanied last year. Sixty-one is a piffle. In fact, I think I'm beyond the time of Milestone Birthdays, unless I live to be 100. Milestone birthdays are personal. We each have different ones. Here are mine ...


18 -- I was the third member of the Class of 1981 to turn 18. I was LEGAL! Okay, so the drinking age had been raised to 19, but that wasn't what I focused on. Mom picked me up from high school and I asked her to stop by the county courthouse on the way home, where I registered to vote.


24 -- For my 24th birthday, I got a wife! My birthday is January 22, and we married on January 24, 1987. The gift that keeps on giving. Which means tomorrow is our anniversary, and Eowyn is still prettier than me!


30 -- Finally! The age to be take seriously!


40 -- How the hell did I get to be so damn old?!


45 -- The hardest one. The first one without my parents, and for an only child, that's hell. My father was also 45 when I was born. It could have been my last, too. A week later, I was in the hospital after losing four pints of blood in one night. My parents' deaths left me with bleeding ulcers I didn't know I had. Okay, so I don't feel pain.


50 -- Old enough to know better, still to young to care! Seriously, I enjoyed this one. My 50s were the best decade so far.


60 -- A FUCKING SENIOR CITIZEN?! SHOOT ME NOW! Yeah, this one was hard.


61 -- Not a milestone, but far from last year. Organically, over the past 365 days, I've reached the stage of GRUMPY OLD MAN! Or, in my case, I'm going to be who I want, do what I want, say what I want, believe what I want, write what I want, render what I want, and play what I want, and if a bunch of pink-haired, tattoo-faced brain-dead TikTokers don't like it, in the immortal words of someone richer than me, "Go fuck yourself." And if a bunch of Evangelicals don't like it, "Go fuck yourself." You be you. I'll be me. But don't get in my way. At 61, I no longer fear the death penalty.


So, what did I do yesterday? Um ... being a certified, license carrying Dirty Old Man, I played with naked chicks. One render is already posted ("Aura Odalisque"). Two more await. They have short stories that need to be written first.


Now, for the traditional part of birthday journals around here. The BIRTHDAY GOODIES!!!


Janus3003 beat me to this one, and featured my girl Aura in the process:

Hey, Janus. Are we developing some sort of Fantasy Art rivalry? Or are we becoming the Frank-Boris combo of 3D?


RagingCyc0ne realized that my girls might be busy elsewhere, but the costumes must be worn. His girls do fill them out nicely:

Lady-Quantum knows me too well:

That's a good looking burger, Katie.


adiffer gave me extra spoons! I'll take them!

Emergency Spoons

From dellcartoons, a Baby Crimson. Ain't she cute?

Baby Crimson Enchantress Has Cookies

olympiaman celebrates the goodness that is being a Boobtit:

A two-fer from atomicwick.


YES! I discovered the Huge Bosom Particle! FF Cups for everyone! Okay, still not big enough for LordLard's taste.

I don't know if this is my gift or Stephanie's:

Dangerguy01 always knows how to present my Main Lady in a good light:

And WeFergieOhOh7 decided to celebrate the birthday I share with Alex Ross:


I must say, it is a joy to have been born so I can know all y'all. Some of y'all I've met face-to-face. Even those I've not, you're on that small list of folks I'd allow across my threshold (no mean feat for a self-declared hermit).


Okay. Before I get maudlin, and forget I'm supposed to be grumpy (GET OFF MY CONCRETE [I live in an apartment]), I'll close with ...


And that's the way it is, Tuesday, January 23, 2024. All y'all groovy hep cats treat yourselves kindly today, you hear?

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Good evening, all y'all groovy hep cats.


That's about it, really. I feel ... okay.


I've lost two years. Most people said that about 2020 and 2021 because of Covid. I cruised through that like just another Tuesday, because it didn't change my life one iota (first of probably several parenthetical side notes: I'm going to stop calling it social anxiety because that's a TikTok self-diagnosis term, and call it what it is -- crippling agoraphobia). I didn't leave the apartment in 2019 or 2022, and I don't plan to in 2024.


However, for me personally, 2022 and 2023 were a different story. I'm still digging out from the arrhythmia. They can call it a procedure (complete with gorgeous Asian anesthesiologist) all they want, but they still stuck a foreign object in my heart and fried a piece of it. I'm still digging out from that. So, artistically, 2023 was mediocre. I made a few pieces I liked, but the rest were artjams and birthdays and uninspired jokes. I'll get to the de rigueur 2023 Top Ten directly.


Maybe 2024 will see the return of inspiration and endurance.


Meanwhile, back at the used battleship sales lot ... I did accomplish something this year that I'm proud of.


I'm 60 years old. In a few weeks, that number will be 61. If I take care of myself, improve my circulation, and lose 70 pounds, I'll live another 35 years. Meaning, I'm a lot closer to the day I draw my last breath than the day I drew my first.


I finally got it through my thick Deep Fried Southern head that I don't have the time left in my life to give a damn about anyone else's feelings. I don't have enough life remaining to be a people pleaser, to play a policy of appeasement with perfect strangers.


I am going to say what I want, write what I want, render what I want, play the games I want the way I want, think what I want, and say what I want. I won't set out to be an obnoxious jackass, and deliberately offend people. However, there will be those who will take offense at what I do and say. Well, that's on them. That's their problem. Their feelings are no concern or business of mine.


It took long enough for that to finally sink in and become part of my psyche, my being. But late is better than never. I grew up around old Southerners who even in their 80s bent over backwards to say and do what someone else wanted, just for good manners or worse ... a total lack of courage. This is why my father and grandfather were crotchety old men. They refused to play the policy of appeasement that their siblings and cousins played. I played that game as late as 45, saying what other people wanted to hear, just to get them to shut up and give me some quiet. Well, screw that! Social currency was unknown to my father and grandfather, and I'm throwing that concept where it belongs -- the emotional landfill.


That won't change much for me around here. I've always been an opinionated grump who kicked the TOS just because it was there. That won't be any different.


Okay. Enough philosophical muttering. Here we go with the countdowns.


THE TOP TEN FOR 2023


If DA Stats can be believed, here are my Top Ten Most Favorited Deviations for 2023.


Number Ten, with 133 Favorites, Flat Earthed:

Number Nine, with 134 Favorites, An Imperiled Rescue:

Number Eight, with 138 Favorites, Routine:

Number Seven, also with 138 Favorites, Another Fine Rescue:

Number Six, again with 138 Favorites, New Recruits for B.I.M.B.O.:

Number Five, with 141 Favorites, Red In Bed:

Number Four, with 152 Favorites, Aura Nude 3523:

Number Three, with 154 Favorites, Whysper and Crimson Fox:

Number Two, with 159 Favorites, Aura 2023:

And my Number One Favorited Image for 2023, coming in with 225, Stretching:

Is it just me, or is there a pattern here? Why do I feel like I could do nothing for 2024 but Aura and the Ashe Girls in naked bondage peril and you people would be overjoyed?


MY FAVORITE BAKER'S DOZEN


Now, my personal choice for favorites this year isn't the same as the list chosen by viewers. I have different criteria for what I like in my own art. in no particular order (and why I chose it).


The Spellsword:

Desiree is a still evolving character. This was one of the steps in answering the still unanswered question, "What am I going to do with her?" I also dig the Ray Harryhausen vibe.


Dragon Attack:

You groovy hep cats know how much I love the fantasy genre. I'm proud of the chaos captured here. And let me tell you what! That set is a beast to begin with (Polish, can you possibly cram more geometry into those buildings?), but add volumetric flames and smoke, and my GPU kicked me in the balls for spite.


The Model:

I expected the humor of this piece (obviously, since I composed it), but I did not expect Katie to look so darn delicious!


At the Pit's Edge:

Hey, I like Aura in naked bondage peril as much as y'all. Perhaps more since I know where the canon story is going and how much of this sort of thing will appear.


In Evil's Name:

What did I say under At the Pit's Edge? I like the lighting and details in this one.


Monotober 2023: Judgment:

Do I need to say it again? Besides, these guys are canon villains.


One Night in the Swamp:

nyctophobia11 said it for me in his comment: "I love how no matter the peril, Aura always looks like it's the baddie who's really in danger and just doesn't realise it yet."


Cellars N Critters the MMORPG:

At the risk of being egotistical, I nailed the Twitch vibe!


Monotober 2023: Foliage:

This is the third render I've done inspired by the same Frank Frazetta painting (I don't feel pulling out my Frazetta portfolio to find the name). Of the three, I think it's the best.


Red in Bed:

I do like this one. As close to an Aura centerfold as I got this year.


The Usual Suspects:

Can I be honest? I don't remember making this one. I think I was drunk that night. But I'm a sucker for this sort of action composite.


Tantilizing:

Not just another nude portrait of my main lady. This was when her original G3F face was finally restored. Now, Aura looks like she should.


Valkyria Silver Age:

2023 wasn't a good year for the Ashe Girls. They were simply the subject of jokes and that's about it. But I do like this one. The background story of why I made it still causes me to chuckle. The Silver Age vibe is funny.


PLANS FOR 2024


Eh, I'm not making any. That hasn't worked out well in the past few years. I'll make up the new year as I go.


And that's the way it is, Sunday, December 31, 2023. All y'all groovy hep cats have a Happy 2024.

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