Why can't a rough 'n' ready butt-kickin' barbarian warrior dude relax and snuggle his kitten once in a while? Huh? Well, why not!?
Poser 4, Photoshop 4, Super Blade Pro
Physique is by R_Kane
Dr Morpheen texture by
Syyd
Enzo's Braveheart Hair by
me
Kitten built by
me, with
9Lives Morphs by Capsces
This is Physique, a Poser 4 character by R_Kane, sporting my Enzo's Braveheart Hair. He's wearing other stuff, but you can't see it in the pic (DAZ's Michael's Santa belt and Traveler's loincloth freebie from BBay). Posing a hugely-muscled guy is hard! I turned on limits and bent his arms pretty much into shape, then turned them off and twisted things to where I wanted them.
The kitten is the Poser 3 cat (actually, mine is 'Cat
2,' which has advanced engineering) that is scaled and morphed to be younger
and cuter. The texture is one I made for "The
Fledgeling."
I laid Physique down and then brought in the kitten and
sized it. Then stuck it down so its hind legs rested on his chest,
and turned on the back leg IK. The rest is basic posing, and morphing.
to close the eyes, etc.
Technically, this is a Vue background. I didn't render it, though, I swiped it out of my "Two Tigers" pic. I sliced out the top bits of the trees and stretched them to fit behind the figures in 'Shop. Then I chopped out some grass area and stacked it up in three layers between the figures and the trees. The grass was kinda dark and dull, so I hit it with a lighting filter, which made it look all embossed. But some judicious Fade-ing fixed it right up. The foreground grass is a copy of the background grass layer, scaled up a bit. The shadows are another duplicate of THAT, skewed, blackened, and turned into multiply with lowered opacity.
The hair and fur were fluffed, as usual. The usual
trouble spots were smeared/blurred/cloned into shape: the elbow creases,
mainly. I painted on the armband, wrist cuff, and scars.
The arm band is made up of two squiggles, with a shot
of Super Blade Pro on them to make the silver and gold. Most
of the effort was spent on making it look as if it is molded around the arm,
rather than just slapped on. I duplicated the layer and put a
white-to-black gradient in the shape to multiply for some sort of shading.
I painted shadowing on a layer behind the band and multiplied it with
the skin beneath. Then I smeared some flesh over the edges of the band,
and did some smoothing and erasing of the edges here and there. Hopefully,
it looks as if it is pinching into the flesh somewhat.
The armband is a copy of the wrist below, selected with the lasso tool and some careful drawing. I copied and pasted it to a new layer and darkened it to that leathery brown colour. I also sized it up a bit bigger, and painted the inside edge on. The nifty texture is two shots of Craquelure (however ya spell it) that were Faded into darken mode only.
The scars I made by using the lasso to select a jaggy
scar-shaped area of the skin, copy and paste. Then I messed with the
lightness and saturation and painted up shadows and such like, and messed
with different types of blending to get them to look right. The scar
on the chest, I hit with Super Blade Pro, to try to make it rounded looking.
Lots of airbrush painting behind to try to get it shaded.
The big spiky red scar was three or four layers of me
messing around with it. One copy lightened and pinkened up, one copy
multiplied, one with shadows multiplying.... and then I airbrushed shadows
behind and underneath, and used the smear to tease it out the edges, some
blurring, some transparency... Finally, I quit messing with it.
Hopefully it looks like one of those big pink scars.
The rest of the scars are on a Luminosity layer, brightened
up and airbrushed darker over the skin.
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