Silica's Art Blog

A secluded nest for a youngling artist embarrassed of her own works. Namely nudes. B-b-but also other things sometimes! Really! I also have a reblog blog over here, if you're into that! [ silicasurf-reblog.tumblr.com ] P.s. I'm a trangirl! Weird, right? I sure think so. Fuck if I can figure out my own emotions.

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(I keep reblogging things to the wrong blog. Haha.)

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ART DUMP. I was picking through things, and I lumped together a mixture of old drawings from deviant art, practice sketches, and character refs that never really saw the light of day. 

(Oh, and one update to an old drawing that for some reason I never tossed up)

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I revisited the old Venutian correctional fascility, added some details, scattered some lights around, and played about with flat colors! Fun stuff~~

Good thing I souped up it up too. Sky cities  have the worst time with crime, don’tchya know? Why, a single engineer with a bad day could take an entire district with them into the abyss if they so wished, and yet ejecting problem citizens from the air locks is hardly a better option. Not when the gene pool is shallow as summer puddle already. Thankfully, the eternally pragmatic, resourceful, benevolent, and infinitely wise Meritocracy of Venus found an ingenious solution to the plight of their citizens that not only took care of the law breakers, but also sky rocketed the moral of the planet’s colonies to levels unprecedented throughout the solar system...

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Streaming!!

I’m setting up for a multi-stream with http://saane.tumblr.com/! She's gonna be drawing a thing, and I'll be sculpting a thing! https://picarto.tv/Saane

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Stag beetle girl side-side-side-side project.

I’m ADD af

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ANOTHER UPDATE. It’s almost back to back, now. I decided to definitely go for the more cliched head shape, but I gave it a little bit of character by fluffing out the space around the head with gross squishy things. It’s kinda making my stomach queasy... so I think that means it’s working? That, or I really need to work on my nutrition. I haven’t really been eating right sense Saturday... so... gonna go get on that, yeah. 

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Just trying to keep my mind off things by staying busy...

I figured I’d touch up some of the things that bothered me about the old head and play around with materials. (Also debating if I should just give in and elongate the mantle backwards because I just don’t think this shape is working for it...)

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Hey look, I still do pencil art sometimes~! These three are the highlights of of the last couple weeks.

The top pair has Rain and Becca, some ancient OCs that I haven’t shown any love towards for the longest time. Rain’s put on a bit of weight sense I last drew her... and Becca certainly looks a lot snippier. She used to be such a sweet girl. The heck’s she got against a healthy meal?? (And whhyyy did I try to rub in the shading on her leg when I knew I had makeup residue on my fingers???)

The bottom left is Ellie, an RP character of mine from Second Life. Horrible game, 0 out of five stars, can’t put it down. Incidentally, because she’s a Second Life character can’t exactly claim that Ellie’s character design is entirely my own. Every item on her was just bought on the marketplace, but it’s all so heavily modified that there really isn’t a single person like her. (Ya know, I was really worried when I made her that she might attract foot fetishists like flies, but it seems her overall spookiness has been able to keep most of them at bay...? And here I was thinking that she’d never scare a thing! Goodness have I ever miscalculated.)

Oh, and do you see that picture on the bottom right...? A friend of mine needed a little help on a project of theirs, and for some reason they went strait to me! This one is sort of a rough...? I gave it some pretty detailed shading but most of the actual features are kind of preliminary just to see what she thinks of the direction I’ve taken her creature in.

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I’ve been stitching myself up a sweet little zombie friend! She has a pretty beautiful smile, if I don’t say so myself! (-even if we did have to yank her back teeth when they started turning green.)

By the by, that mechanism on the back of her neck isn’t quite done yet! I’ve got extra work to do on her spine, so I figured that I’d best postpone it until that’s finished!

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I made an orc lady today! Or at least the head of one. She was a lot of fun!

I actually feel a little naughty for this one though. I used a bit of help from MakeHuman! Creative Commons license or not, it was an undeniably lazy shortcut. (I had to make up for it by completely ruining the model it gave me in blender afterwards.)

I don’t think it’s my favorite work, but I think I have some friends who might take a liking to her~?

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Weary old Baerlet, the martin heifer. 

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I needed some practice, so I worked on a disgruntled bird granny today! I’m not really too sure what I’d use her for... but she is kinda pretty in her own, uniquely avian way, huh? I might have to keep her in mind for something special later... we’ll see...

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I was digging through my achieves when I found an old picture I made months ago and never shared!

I made it for Lost Beach on the CoLA sim chain in Second Life originally, but that whole region started sorta disintegrating... and you can’t find any trace Lost Beach was ever there today! Grey might still have it, now that I think about it... but I don’t think he’s doing anything with it if he does. *shrugs!*

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Just messing around in sculptris! 

My initial goal was just to mess with sinus passages and redesign them into inferred sensory organs, but I had the darnedest time with the eyes while I was working... I’m not entirely happy with the solution because I probably could have stuck more faithfully to the original idea by just covering the eyes up in skin to make her look like some species of cave creature, but this did end up heading in some interesting directions after I let it deviate a bit!

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Hey guys! My email was hacked sometime yesterday, apparently. I don’t think they’ve gotten into my tumblr accounts or SL or anything, but I figure I might as well notify you guys just in case.

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This is just a doodle of some sort. It’s still kinda messy in some parts with the crinkled edges still (just needs to be remeshed) and somehow lacking something despite several hours of fiddling... If I ever resurrect the idea, I might add in some more plumage I think. Maybe not feathers, but something more like the external gills on axolotl; something wispy and vascular sprouting out of its abdomen to help it resperate and regulate its body temperature. 

(I’ll also probably change the orientation on that abdomen AGAIN because I can never be happy with it! The body plan was interesting, but the balance is all screwy.)

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Slowly, slowly the cracks deepen!