Another nude, and some gore for good measure

Hi everyone – I’ve begun my first few drafts for the project and so far it’s been a difficult but very educational process.

For tree references I used a lot of banyan tree photos since they have a great viney texture. To impose it onto the model, courtesy of some tasteful porn site, I used layers and tuned down the opacity. Even though I spent a long time trying to figure out how to use masks, it turned down I didn’t even need them. I also went to the Digital Output Centre for help with printing my proof – the lab tech being is indeed very knowledgeable. I will be going back, for sure.

After struggling with the texture I’m gonna have to work on lighting. Gah. So much work.

In other news, I fell off my bike yesterday. I was going down Broadway whilst trying to talk on my cellphone at the same time.

“Isn’t that kind of dangerous?” asked the person I was talking to.

“Yeah,” I said. “So if you hear a crash and it cuts off, that means I’ve fallen over.”

And BAM. Within 5 seconds, I was sprawled on the sidewalk, and my cellphone was strewn in pieces next to me. This is a photo of the raw skin peeled off my left hand:

After realizing what had happened, the first thing I did was sit up and burst into laughter. I didn’t really expect to fall off.