The company I keep

• life

Or rather hang around the periphery of and watch.

I saw this on the front page of deviantART (hey the front page is good for something after all ;) when I went to log in:

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Lightning La Buff Bust by mattj324

In my usual fashion after dropping in to leave a boring “wow” type comment, I went through the rest of the person’s gallery and then watched them.

8 hour freaking speed sculpt. I’d seriously be happy if I got something anywhere approaching that in a month (but more likely more considering the speed at which I work). I can run the usual excuses about how I generally don’t get 8hr sittings for anything (okay sleep but I’m generally lying down then) but it gets to a point where I wonder if the people I watch are prodigious or whether that’s a normal amount of time and I’m just exceedingly, agonisingly slow (my usual thought).

There’s also people like this who are concept artists:

The above was allegedly a rush job.

And then there’s the people who are “just learning”:

And while I’m on a roll I should mention one of the few good Poser/DAZ artists that I’ve found:

See you can do cool stuff with Poser and DAZ, it’s not just for the most boring porn with the most terrible lighting (which is most of what I used to see when I dared poke my head into the 3d gallery of dA).

It’s nice to have inspiration, even if it does often make me feel incompetent.

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