Fiery Redheads... and Summer in the City

As you may notice, I've been fairly quiet - and I will be, seeing that my public exams are once again pressing upon me. But that won't stop me from one more story-writing contest before I go! And here she is - Sissel Foxcraft, based off another character I had written up. The dress isn't really anything special - but as you can see, it's my first attempt editing hair and it... uh, turned out kinda floppy. I'll try working on it, but remembering that I just finished this entry three minutes before casting ended... meh!

(Also, MiaChanelle is one hell of a motivator... -coughs-)

August Mod Contest Entry - Yuki-Onna

I actually wanted to do this for the June contest, but my exams interfered... so now I have a chance to enter this edit in this month's contest. Surprisingly, my original concept for this month's theme was a living puppet, but I figured I didn't have the sufficient skill to do it... so here you go, my yuki-onna with her whiteness and slightly blood-stained kimono.

Oh, and if you see the hint of gray, your eyes aren't fooling you - I did shade one side of her face gray. Might've been a tad bit too light though... hmph!

To be entirely honest though, this month's entries are, as always, as stunning as ever, and I already have one or two favourites! I wonder how the results will end up...

Another Gown - Where Blood is Thicker than Water

Yes, in case you've noticed, I do love editing long ball gowns with the regular bimbo pose. There's something about them that is so... I don't know. I'll never be able to wear - or afford - one of those in real life, so I guess I'm just living vicariously!

This was done for the final round of the Cross Academy multi-round contest. The original idea was to have the dress base white - but after a little prompting, here is the end result! Thanks to my lovely and awesome co-conspirator for world domination sisu, Artemis226 for pointing it out to me. Sianne looks lovely in red, doesn't she?

I apologize if you're coming in from the Cross Academy thread - but I just had to put this there. Though I really have to stop doing split dresses/sash down the front style things. Will go back to editing with poses and whatnot after this - single rounds, after all, take up a lot less time comparatively!

A Quick Update

You've probably noticed that I haven't been updating as much - which I apologize for. Usually, when I start a multi-round contest, I tend to neglect the single round areas... and thus, I don't have as much time to edit. But if you do want to check out what I've been doing lately, you can go to the Cross Academy contest that's running at the moment, I've been doing most of my edits there :D

I'll be heading off to Europe for this year's holidays too, so I'll be back in August, ready to edit and all that!

Knit Dresses, Epaulets... and Chains

This one I made for one of those contests which I had been itching to get my hands into... if I could, I'd send brownies to Addidut and give her a lifetime supply of ice cream. But I can't, so I figured I'd pour my heart into making my edits for the contest instead. Or at least, as well as I can handle, so that at least outfit-wise I don't disappoint... much.

Yes, I haven't had time to do a more "large-scale" edit, so now I'm just doing the basic bimbo pose. I found out that I love doing chains - if they're done properly. I'd highlight the ones on the epaulettes (aren't they pretty -is proud of herself-), but it'd be too flashy and there isn't really much room for a 1px chain to "highlight"... hm. Anyhow, I present to you my epaulette'd knit dress!

Short Dresses and Skirts (I)

Inspired by what I saw in an MV - I figured it'd be fun to do, so I just went ahead and - well, here's the final result. I tend to find editing on the normal bimbo pose so much more easier (though not quite as fun) than using a custom pose, partly because I'm still terrible at shading and texture. Uh, it's a jeans-top/baby pastel skirt combo thing, but the end result came out a little different than I had envisioned. But I'm still proud of it - especially the top. The creases were hell to play with.

New Background and Sparkly Dresses

What the title says. I made a spiffy new background - took me a few tries to shrink the size of the file, but I managed without losing out on quality. The brushes are all found on the original Deviant Art, credit to the original artists. They're gorgeous, aren't they? I tend to have a thing for dark colours and white semi-transparent images, so... yeah, there you have it. Not sure about the header though - I was thinking a header might be a bit much on the blog. If you think otherwise, just drop me comment in the comment box, and I'll read through them - and if I have time respond.

And another edit - this one was actually done the same day as I finished my Steampunk Riding Hood, and now that I've discovered the joy of sparkly dresses, I might actually make more to use for future contests in MRs where you need gowns for prom and whatnot -coughWaverlycough- I think this one's a bit on the plain side, so I'll go tweak it some time later - or redo another one, goodness knows I love editing gowns like these. Especially if they're taken straight from Egyptian fashion =D

Steampunk Riding Hood

With his EMR slapped over his shoulder like usual, he looked kind of like a Little Red out to beat the sh*t out of a big bad wolf and cook him for dinner.

- A Fetish for Secrets? by ShadesofImagination, Fanfiction.net 

Yes, I was dying to put that line there because - well, this was pretty much what inspired this edit. Of course, that quote referred to a Queen of Hearts with a lolita twist than a Little Red Riding Hood, but it pretty much stuck with me when I got started. It took surprisingly longer than I had anticipated - six to seven hours, I think? Probably had to do with my indecision on my gauntlets, weapons, the basket and probably everything else in the edit, and I'll mod it once I have time. But for now, I present to you a Little Red who's gone steampunk! Oh, and a little tribute to Reno from FFVII -coughfacetattooscough-

Pick me up - read: Tiramisu

I finished this edit yesterday for MM2007's "You Are What You Eat" contest. It can hardly compare to the entries there (my favourites are AcLey and MissCox's), but here it is! She's supposed to be tiramisu - and you can see how that turned out... haha.

So what am I up to now? Uh, a few things, really: writing, listening to music, attempted to edit a pose but failed, so now I'm back to editing gowns and whatnot on the regular bimbo pose. Hey, I gotta prep for another of those highly anticipated contests that are coming up soon ;)

Guess who?

So, yes. After around two weeks of exams, I found this lying around - it was for this MR contest I was doing two weeks back or so, but I'm kind of proud of it, so I thought I'd post it here. Cookies for those who can guess where the outfit came from! The theme for that round was Halloween... and so, being the otaku I am, I put the two together and voila! Here she was.

Yes, I know exactly which game this comes from, and judging by all the reviews the game got, it was... mediocre, at best, and at worst... uh, yeah. But there's no denying how pretty the graphics were - or how badass this particular character was! Though I was miffed at what she ended up as at the end of the game. Well, the sequel to this game was announced only yesterday at the E3 convention for video games, so I'm hoping that the plot improves somewhat... Come on, Square Enix, don't let me down! And you still owe me the FFVII port that you've been talking about for ages!