SELF PORTRAIT
No, I am not really an
"Alien Cheetah Lady" from the planet "Kai's Power Goo", but it
was fun to morph myself there! For a real portrait photo see the bottom of this
page.
As for who I "really" am, I am a fantasy/Sci Fi artist, who has glommed
onto
computer graphics as a means to augment my creativity. I have come a long way from
shaded pencil drawings of horses to illustrate the stories I wrote as a 10 year old.
[click here for my art history] Today I do all my creative
endeavors exclusively on
my PC "super computers". [click here for the specs]
I use various programs
[click here for a list of programs I use] to create 3d
models & art images. I am still
learning more every day, and I enjoy communicating with friends over the net to
discuss art ideas, programs and techniques, as well as other interests.
[click here for a little more about me]
For a page & picture that explains in layman's terms just what computer
graphic art is,
& what 3D models ARE, click here!
It was my love of horses that got me started drawing as a child. I could not have a
real horse back then, so I wrote stories of young girls with horses. I illustrated those
stories with shaded pencil drawings. Later in life, I learned (self taught) how to do
horse portraits in ink, pastels, and oils. I did horse portraits commercially for a while,
along with horse photography, all free lance. Still later I was privileged to own
real
horses for a few years. See a photo portrait of my sweet Arabian
mare and foal here.
My love of horses and fantasy lead me into the fantasy art subjects - Centaurs, Mermaids,
Dragons, as well as Carousel horses and animals. I sold my creations on stationery,
notes, and in original coloring books, commercially, for years. When the profits no longer
outweighed the expenses of the business, I gave it up. That turned out to be a real
positive
for me, because I could now devote all my energies to learning to work with more advanced
computer systems, and graphic arts programs. My goal was to be able to enhance and expand
on my 2D art images. Computers had opened up a whole new world for me, allowing me to
expand into Sci Fi art, as well as innovative new styles of "still life"
art.
Much to my delight, my art can be found on many web sites,
and in many on line galleries
throughout the world. Some of my images have the honor of being in the Select Gallery -
of Bruce MacLeod's Bryce Gallery. I have had several images chosen to grace the covers
of on line Sci Fi magazines. In 1998, I was interviewed by PixArt on line magazine for
their section on "Digital Women" - I am proud to be a part of this ever growing
community
of women artists. It has been a male dominated area for too long. See my Favorites Links
section for links to Bruce's Gallery, and PixArt magazine. Update: I
feel like I have "arrived",
finally having so many visitors to my web site, that I found I needed the additional
bandwidth
and space provided by getting a "domain name". My art has gone by Lyne's
Creations for
more than 20 years, and it is a thrill to have a presence on the world wide web as
www.lynescreations.com !
And now having my own on-line model store is a dream come true!
CLOSING DEC. 30th, 2007 DUE TO HEALTH PROBLEMS. :(
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I started out with an early Radio Shack Tandy PC clone, upgrading over the years as
the technology and my skills improved. I now have two computers. (Yes, I am lucky -
my husband builds computers! He knows hardware and how software works with it,
like the back of his hand.) I have upgraded over the years too many times to count.
AS OF LATE 2010 FOR SECOND LIFE & ART - I HAVE:
Video card: ati radeon HD 5850. W/1 gig
GDDR5 ram
Processor: intel I-7 875. 7 core processor (unlocked). (that means that it over
clocks itself)
Ram : 4 gigs DDR3 1600 MgH ( real fast )
Power : 850 watt modular power supply
Hard drive : western dig 1 tarabyte (sata 6.0)
Motherboard: azus atx m/b 12 USB ports 8 USB 2.0 - 4 USB 3.0 -
onboard high def sound and superfast 1000 megabit eathernet card.
2 pci-e ports to expand video to double card (with crossfire)
Windows 7 sp1 ultimate edition
2 dual layer DVD/cd burners (sata)
Thanks to my genius computer wizardry of my son Bill!!
I started out in the early days, using the tiny windows 3.1's paint program, coloring in
line art with that awful 16 colors. I graduated to PC Paintbrush and simple gradients,
that I was thrilled with at the time! My how times have changed! (but all that practice
with those programs gave me a real base to work up from) I worked my way up from
Corel PhotoPaint 7 Plus to Photoshop5 for painting and touch ups, and special effects.
Ray Dream has become indispensable for making
"morphs" of my Poser models. Never
thought I would be 'manipulating meshes'! It is hard work, but great fun! NOTE: At
this
point in time, my "patched" and "updated" Poser 3 & Ray
Dream Studio 5 "speak"
to one another perfectly for all the necessary interaction for creating poser
"morphs".
I have watched with interest as my fellow artists upgrade each of these programs, and
find that they are not always as compatible as before. I dream of the expensive
higher end modeling programs... although I am doing quite well with Ray Dream, still!
Bryce has taken a back seat to my new love: Vue d'Esprit 4,
with it's Vegetation
Generator that makes "real" trees and plants! Now My fauna has a flora -
place to live!
UPDATE: While health has kept me from modeling now, I have dived into creating
new
unique ways to present my 3D art - QuickTime Panoramas!
I do this with Vue5 Infinite,
and my MAC driven program ArtMatic Voyager!
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You can tell a lot about me from my favorite links page... I love cats (am owned by two
boys - indoor, over protected, and spoiled boys!) whales, dolphins and wolves. I am a
Trekkie, complete with Star Trek Action Figure DOLL HOUSES that I
built myself.
I also loved Babylon 5 (oh-oh! they have action figures, too!) and a lot of other Sci Fi
shows. I collect fantasy statues, art and trading cards of (entirely too much!)
Trek, B5,
Superman, Dragons, Carousels, horses, and cats. My husband and I both enjoy
football,
Science Fiction, the outdoors (especially the ocean), and obviously computers! Note:
collecting has taken a back seat to all my time and efforts these days, as I have
learned
(and always learning more, improving), the creations of my own 3D models for Poser,
Vue
Bryce and other "scene creator software" programs. I finally have the
career I love!
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Present Day me along with one of the pastel horse portraits I did over 20
years ago.
For a Photo of me and my kids ~
click here! :)
LIVING WITH SILENT SYNDROMES
my experience living with the "silent syndromes" -
chronic, painful health issues that happen inside your body - hidden from
view... Do you have FM, CFS, IBS, and/or perpetual menopause symptoms? Ready my
story, & perhaps benefit from the research I have gathered I face these
challenges that I am STILL and always trying to rise to, and conquer!
Comments? Questions?
Note: all the e mail links on this site are "fake". I did this
because of the heavy use of "spam bots".
If anyone wants to contact me, they can via the Instant Messages at Renderosity,
PlanIT3d, DAZ.
The Other part of who I am... the story of
my Spiritual Journey