[Dazzlinkat]

You should do more pics when you in a 'mood'. This one is really good.

[Radthorne]

You should do more pics when you in a 'mood'. This one is really good.
Thanks! (I had a feeling you might take a liking to him... ;) )

[KatG]

Why do they always pick high powered people to be on technology panels who don't like the particular technology being discussed? Gary being stuck on a panel with an editor who doesn't understand the Internet, etc. I mean, why have the panel then, just to have people then say they don't think they should be having the panel?

I again trot out my Ben Bova story (though by all accounts Mr. Bova is a very nice man.) Where I went to a panel on agents at a sff convention. I was one at the time, but I was there undercover, in the audience. They had one agent on the panel, who had already impressed me at other talks, two unpublished authors who had trouble finding an agent and didn't seem to be very happy with the whole profession, and then the guest star was suppose to be Barbara Bova, who is a very major sff agent and Ben Bova's wife and agent. She was called away, so Ben subbed for her. And promptly trashed his wife's profession as unnecessary and vaguely suspect. It was very weird.

Anyway, congratulations on the sale, Kev. The new one, the guy looks kind of vampire/zombish. Trying to decide if I like that or not.

[Radthorne]

Well, you know Dazzle said she liked people with emotion, so... :D This guy's got it in spades!

During the previous night's art show tour, when Mark Ferrari led folks around and made observations, he pointed out with reference to mine (as many of you here have) that the light hitting the characters is not always consistent with the apparent source of the light in the rest of the image. He understood the difficulty, as he is presently working (with great reluctance, I think) with a 3D package, and it is not easy to get the computer to simulate all the nuances of real light. Surfaces reflect and scatter light, and while the computer can do some of this, it doesn't always do it the way 'reality' does it, and thus it doesn't look correct all the time. Hence a lot of manual manipulation of lights is required to make it 'look' right, introducing all sorts of potential for messing it up.

Many of the backgrounds I use are pre-done works sold as parts of background packages, and naturally many have a focal point of something like the angle of the sun, or of the moon. As the chacters are of course in front of said background, it makes dealing with lighting them somewhat tricky to say the least. But, if you put the moon in front of them, then that sky above their heads is just black and not quite as interesting... Hence the difficulty. However, I am putting it on my list to do more work on getting the light to work better.

One other item of good news is that another SFF site, The Zone (http://www.zone-sf.com/), has one of my works now adorning the splash page of their site, as a result of encountering my things in this thread and its predecessor. Y'all will recognize the picture in question, I'm sure.

[Rheingold]

Hey,

I've been looking through all of your drawings, and I love them all! I haven't posted anything until now, because I haven't really had anything to say other than that your drawings are awesome....I don't notice any details that are off until someone else posts them here, so I've just read and looked.

But a few days ago, I was at school, and I saw someone wearing a shirt that looked shockingly familiar. It was a yellow background with one of the fairy pictures from the last thread, and I asked her if Kevin Radthorne had designed her shirt, and she said yes and looked at me really strangely because I'd recognized the designer of her shirt's picture....

So yeah....That was really cool. :D

[Dazzlinkat]

Oh, yea, the cyborg plotting to take over the world !!

Newsletter and a website taking on your work ... what's next?

[Radthorne]

Hey,

I've been looking through all of your drawings, and I love them all! I haven't posted anything until now, because I haven't really had anything to say other than that your drawings are awesome....I don't notice any details that are off until someone else posts them here, so I've just read and looked.

But a few days ago, I was at school, and I saw someone wearing a shirt that looked shockingly familiar. It was a yellow background with one of the fairy pictures from the last thread, and I asked her if Kevin Radthorne had designed her shirt, and she said yes and looked at me really strangely because I'd recognized the designer of her shirt's picture....

So yeah....That was really cool. :D
:D Thanks for sharing that info, Rheingold! (And welcome - glad you're enjoying all the pix!). That's quite a hoot, that someone likes the images enough to make a shirt out of 'em! Given that these are all sized for web viewing and not printing, I'm surprised it turned out well enough to be viewable. Would seem to me, too, that the odds are high that the person wearing the shirt would also be a denizen of this thread, since I'm not exactly a household name (well, at least not yet) (he says with supreme opitmism :) :rolleyes: ). So, if the mystery shirt wearer is in the house - pop in and say hello! ;)

[Radthorne]

Being now in a much more serene mood :) I decided to re-visit this image, since I felt it was worth getting right. It now has a rather more upbeat mood. I also altered her pose to fix up her arms, and adjusted her facial characteristics.

https://home.comcast.net/~radthorne/Data/Pictures/Fall.jpg

[Rheingold]

I like it a lot more this way. :D

Is she levitating the leaves with her telekinesis, or are they blowing in right above her hand? She looks like she's concentrating really hard on something....

I don't think the girl I saw wearing the shirt posts here; she doesn't seem like the kind of person who would.

[KatG]

Hmm, do we upbraid this young lady for obvious copyright infringement, or applaud her for making a cool shirt and spreading Kevin's art around? Since she isn't selling the T-shirts, I'd vote for the latter. But is this funky or what, KR?

The new version of the lady I also like, though it is 180 degrees from the mood of the first version. But I think you need more leaves floating around. If they are blowing in from the doorway, there should probably be some between the door and the pile she's playing with at least.