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So, I've been learning how to do my own textures and such in DazStudio. I came upon that was perfect as drow skin, w/o being too cartoony like most "Drow" skins are when made for Daz/Poser/Etc. So, being happy and excited, I wanted to make something with a drow, but realized that I don't have any drow characters or know enough about them to really feel comfortable attempting something BIG. Then I remembered coming across Xull'rae ages ago in my looking at drow art [I actually found a couple the artists on my watch list that way, saw how great their artwork was and watched them! LOL]. And so yeah, I decided to try something with Xull'rae. She's the RPG character of *XullraeZauviir And even has her own fan club here on dA.

I feel I did a fairly ok job at getting her down. There are a couple small things wrong, but they were so small, that I didn't think it worth spending an hour cursing at the computer trying to fix these things and waiting another hour for the picture to re-render. LOL And if you just look at the picture as a whole, it's not really obvious either. Also, I know her eyebrows should be red, and I tried to change them the same way I did the eyelashes, but for some reason, it didn't work. I tried it several different ways, so beyond trying to paint them red in PaintShop post-render and screwing up, I just left it as is, with the circlet there, it's not really a big deal. The circlet is silver and so the eyebrows just kinda hide in there with it. I was VERY surprised I was able to get that strand to be silverish! I was afraid I was going to have to put two sets of hair [one red and one silverish] on her and sit there for a day or two clicking, moving, resizing, readjusting, until the silver hair poked out just right. But the hair I chose for her had a strand in just the right spot that was easy to change the color without fuss! That beyond anything else was my biggest worry, the hair. I knew I could manage everything else in the picture someway or another, it was the hair that I was afraid would give me the biggest trouble. LOL Turned out what gave me the biggest trouble what the spider bracelet. The controls for it are odd. On most props, clothing, and jewelry in DazStudio, you want to move it forward/backward you just move a little nob and it does it, same with up/down and side to side. When you do that with the nobs on the bracelet, it moves off in some bizzare direction that makes NO sense whatsoever. I had a matching necklace to go with it that I wanted to put around her waist so it would dangle just below her belly button, but once I got it sized just right and started to line it up, it started doing that weird motions that the bracelet would do, so I gave up on that, deleted it, and just left it with the spider bracelet. Then added all sorts of different lovely jewelry since she is supposed to love her sparklies

HUGE file, almost 7mb. It's 2345x3316 pixels in size which translates to almost 3 feet wide if it were printed up at it's true size. Took around an hour for it to render. My computer hated me, ALOT.

Close-up

Second picture I've done

Xull'rae belongs to the lovely lady that created her :devxull'raezauviir:
The artwork is mine, with lots and lots of resources thanks to Daz and Renderosity.

Description
So, I've been learning how to do my own textures and such in DazStudio. I came upon that was perfect as drow skin, w/o being too cartoony like most "Drow" skins are when made for Daz/Poser/Etc. So, being happy and excited, I wanted to make something with a drow, but realized that I don't have any drow characters or know enough about them to really feel comfortable attempting something BIG. Then I remembered coming across Xull'rae ages ago in my looking at drow art [I actually found a couple the artists on my watch list that way, saw how great their artwork was and watched them! LOL]. And so yeah, I decided to try something with Xull'rae. She's the RPG character of *XullraeZauviir And even has her own fan club here on dA.

I feel I did a fairly ok job at getting her down. There are a couple small things wrong, but they were so small, that I didn't think it worth spending an hour cursing at the computer trying to fix these things and waiting another hour for the picture to re-render. LOL And if you just look at the picture as a whole, it's not really obvious either. Also, I know her eyebrows should be red, and I tried to change them the same way I did the eyelashes, but for some reason, it didn't work. I tried it several different ways, so beyond trying to paint them red in PaintShop post-render and screwing up, I just left it as is, with the circlet there, it's not really a big deal. The circlet is silver and so the eyebrows just kinda hide in there with it. I was VERY surprised I was able to get that strand to be silverish! I was afraid I was going to have to put two sets of hair [one red and one silverish] on her and sit there for a day or two clicking, moving, resizing, readjusting, until the silver hair poked out just right. But the hair I chose for her had a strand in just the right spot that was easy to change the color without fuss! That beyond anything else was my biggest worry, the hair. I knew I could manage everything else in the picture someway or another, it was the hair that I was afraid would give me the biggest trouble. LOL Turned out what gave me the biggest trouble what the spider bracelet. The controls for it are odd. On most props, clothing, and jewelry in DazStudio, you want to move it forward/backward you just move a little nob and it does it, same with up/down and side to side. When you do that with the nobs on the bracelet, it moves off in some bizzare direction that makes NO sense whatsoever. I had a matching necklace to go with it that I wanted to put around her waist so it would dangle just below her belly button, but once I got it sized just right and started to line it up, it started doing that weird motions that the bracelet would do, so I gave up on that, deleted it, and just left it with the spider bracelet. Then added all sorts of different lovely jewelry since she is supposed to love her sparklies

HUGE file, almost 7mb. It's 2345x3316 pixels in size which translates to almost 3 feet wide if it were printed up at it's true size. Took around an hour for it to render. My computer hated me, ALOT.

Close-up

Second picture I've done

Xull'rae belongs to the lovely lady that created her :devxull'raezauviir:
The artwork is mine, with lots and lots of resources thanks to Daz and Renderosity.