Lady Dre

multidimensional artist

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I still live. I just finished with peak season at the retail hell I’m at.   I love Kesha’s Praying. I want to listen to the album entirely.

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Melanie doodles. I’m getting inspired to actually write this story out. It’s been a brain baby for years. It’s evolving into a very character building piece with the three central girls.

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Aquamarine gives no shit. 

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Yeah, that needs to be a thing.

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I’m sorry my fair tumblr. I haven’t been posting a lot because most of my art is spent on production work with background art. From time to time, I do allocate it to my brain baby Witching Hour and cg models.   Left: Sesha  Right: Isadora 

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This piece was a response to chaos after a colorism conversation started by a thought piece “The Secret of a Light-Skinned African-American Girl”.   I won’t go into details but it became really divisive and gruesome. All in all, we can’t ever move on and grow from this in sisterhoods if we’re not willing to listen to each other. We need to stop being defensive and condescending with this conversation; we need to stop listening to respond but to understand.   How do we expect others outside of our community to hear our voices when we silence within our own? 

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Carousel Boutique

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Work in Progress

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I should’ve done concept paintings of the trees. I didn’t like the original set up for the leaves, so I did a paint over. It’s resulting to the “less is more” argument. I may make 2 more, or NOT.  Make some shrubs and varying grass patches and throw in Rarity for proper scale.

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Aaaw look at this cute lil ass tree being.   If only Arnold the render was being a poo-head and just failed for a script error that NO ONE knows a definitive solution for. ~-~

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It’s progressing well. I had to do some readjusting and research. Maya 2015 was hitting a lot of bumps rendering with mental ray; it will abort it every time I reopened it. My end result of my search for a solution was to uninstall and reinstall. Little did I know mental ray package isn’t a part of the current Maya program. It’s now owned by Nvidia so artists will have to pay to use it as usual.  I moved on and tried out Maya 2017. I skipped 2016 because it was EXCESSIVELY buggy for me; coincidentally when I was trying to apply to be a 3D artist for a comic book artist. With 2017, I had to crawl, stumble, fall, and weep to understand Arnold.   I’m pleased with the results. Now I just have to model a few low poly foliage, have fun texturing, make panorama based off of the color script of the bg, and fin!   This will take me a while since I am in a short film production. I’m many thing including the background artist. Pacing YOURSELF DRE!  During this, I’ll want to research a new video if that’s my lag in mudbox, the overall stall on my Meganium. I need to finish that puppy.

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The Grammy   “ One thousand girls raise their arms. Do you remember being born? Are you thankful? Are the hips that cracked, the deep velvet of your mother, and her mother, and her mother? “   Doing this gave me a lot a reflection to appreciate my mommy. 

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I’m doing more blocking as I set and re-arrange the uv’s fo the assets. Since enough of them can be tiled, I’m stacking them on top of each other, which is still time-consuming. It’s still worth it since I’ll have to paint less. With some much I have now, there are a lot of things to touch up before I can push into full-blown rendering.

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More Witches

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Drawing my witches.

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Everything is modeled. I’m just blocking out textures including tiling. :D HAND PAINTED TEXTURES! I honestly wanted to start small with hand painted texturing like the KH BBS: icecream. I’ll be able to play with rendering different materials etc.  I do think after blocking ALL the textures for EHTHANG I need to assess different material types for it won’t look flat.  Sure artists would’ve processed that when optimizing their scene before starting, but I needed to dive in fearlessly since this is a first.