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Very interesting poll results (so far) regarding the serials! Four serials are practically tied for top spot and Raiders, I'm pleased to see, isn't far behind. I plan on turning up the peril dial in Raiders soon, so maybe I should have waited to hold the poll until then, but... whatevs. 
I'm very interested to see that the ManniQueen series that
commissioned did so well. Clearly a lot of you have a statue/mannequin fetish. Hmm... Or maybe you just like bright primary colours. Maybe Tuckerverse will be encouraged by the series' popularity to continue it sometime in the future. I know that 
got a little riled up (in a friendly way) and was thinking her OC Mercy and Tuckerverse's ManniQueen should get into some sort of superheroine-capturing competition. Sounds like fun, we'll see if it pans out.
I see a lot of you still have a soft spot for the Test Lab serial, so I'll have to consider continuing that sometime in the future. First, though, I want to draw the other high-ranked serial, Reap the Whirlwind, to a close. I have a definite plot planned out for that serial whereas I don't have any fresh ideas for Test Lab yet. I'm sure they'll come to me, though...
And the Duster/
team-up ranked a lot higher than I expected, considering it's only two images and barely qualifies as a "serial"! I will have to do some more images of them at Mistress Winter's mercy, though they may be too risque to post here and end up on my blog instead. 
And of course Raiders will continue. I've been very busy fulfilling commissions for the last little while but that seems to be settling down so I'll have more time for my own work soon.
Overall, I'm obviously not the only artist who does serials but I do a lot of them and I think they help distinguish me from other artists in our superheroine-in-peril genre. Since I started out as a writer it's not really a surprise to me that I enjoy leveraging the visual medium to tell more stories. They are generally easier to do than all-new images as I can use the previous image file as a template/starting point. Sometimes all I have to do is re-pose the figures and tweak the camera and lighting a bit to create the next image. So yes, there will be more serials in the future. But let me finish some of the ones I started first!
I'm very interested to see that the ManniQueen series that
commissioned did so well. Clearly a lot of you have a statue/mannequin fetish. Hmm... Or maybe you just like bright primary colours. Maybe Tuckerverse will be encouraged by the series' popularity to continue it sometime in the future. I know that got a little riled up (in a friendly way) and was thinking her OC Mercy and Tuckerverse's ManniQueen should get into some sort of superheroine-capturing competition. Sounds like fun, we'll see if it pans out. I see a lot of you still have a soft spot for the Test Lab serial, so I'll have to consider continuing that sometime in the future. First, though, I want to draw the other high-ranked serial, Reap the Whirlwind, to a close. I have a definite plot planned out for that serial whereas I don't have any fresh ideas for Test Lab yet. I'm sure they'll come to me, though...
And the Duster/
team-up ranked a lot higher than I expected, considering it's only two images and barely qualifies as a "serial"! I will have to do some more images of them at Mistress Winter's mercy, though they may be too risque to post here and end up on my blog instead. And of course Raiders will continue. I've been very busy fulfilling commissions for the last little while but that seems to be settling down so I'll have more time for my own work soon.
Overall, I'm obviously not the only artist who does serials but I do a lot of them and I think they help distinguish me from other artists in our superheroine-in-peril genre. Since I started out as a writer it's not really a surprise to me that I enjoy leveraging the visual medium to tell more stories. They are generally easier to do than all-new images as I can use the previous image file as a template/starting point. Sometimes all I have to do is re-pose the figures and tweak the camera and lighting a bit to create the next image. So yes, there will be more serials in the future. But let me finish some of the ones I started first!
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DusterJam 2024: The Gallery
The official journal/gallery of the art jam where the theme is alternative versions of Duster... Candy from other dimensions, and everyone's imagination! @Nathanomir opens the Jam (no surprise) with an elegant Zorro-esque version of Duster that's sure to swash your buckle! From @atomicwick we get "Diner Duster", a delicious version of my gal he created for a story some time ago: @RagingCyc0ne triples the alternatives by giving us Duster, Mistress Winter, and Min Yin... IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!! (with pizza) Next up, Duster the She-Devil by @BinJIBriganD: From @misstakenmanips we get an animated GIF that, if it ever happened, would REALLY complicate my life...! A couple more from @BinJIBriganD: Duster as a medieval warrior queen and as a Jedi. (In the latter she may be running into some of the issues @Nathanomir's sword maidens were complaining about recently...) And another from @RagingCyc0ne, an homage to an unnamed 80s SF flick: @olympiaman contributes a surprise
DusterJam 2024
Announcing the first annual Duster art jam! Sure, I’ve held art jams before—both planned and impromptu—but I think I have enough followers and Duster has enough fans to justify an annual event! Similar to, and I admit partly inspired by, the art festival my buddy @Nathanomir throws for his girl Aura (which should be coming up again this August, right, Nathan?). First of all, we need a theme. This year, it will be “Alternative Duster”. Take my girl and modify her in some way: plunk her down in another time period, or insert her into your favourite pop culture franchise, or import her into your own fictional world… whatever you can imagine! Make her an elf, or a space adventurer, or a spy, or a vampire, or a 50s housewife, or… you get the idea. Just keep her recognizable, somehow! I leave the “somehow” up to you. ;) As for the situation, do whatever you choose: put her in peril, or in battle, or depict her triumphing, or, I dunno, shopping for shampoo. It’s all good! Art of
Quick Daz Tip: Extreme Closeups
Maybe a lot of you know this but I just discovered it by futzing around. If you push the camera in on something for an extreme closeup, the object will become distorted. A human face/head, in particular, will become "compressed" and look thinner than it actually should be. A fix for this is to select the camera and access its parameters. Then reduce the Frame Width (mm) setting from its default of 36. Like, maybe in half to 18. You'll then need to change the camera's position to take account of the new setting. I also find that using the mouse wheel to adjust the camera's position is too inexact, so I use Perspective View and the Translate Tool to drag it. It takes some trial and error but you can get there. There are probably other ways to do this, but I found a way that works and thought I'd share. If you know other methods, by all means share them in the comments. ;)
Favourite Environments
@nyctophobia11’s new “Thanks for Watching” image, as I pointed out to him, makes very good use of one of my favourite digital environments (more on that below). It got me thinking about other sets I commonly use. I suspect that several of my fellow digital artists have noticed me making repeated use of these, and possibly some of you who aren’t digital artists as well. The dominant feature of any image is the people, of course. But “setting”, as you’ll recall from grade school English, is another of the four basic story elements (often neglected in favour of character and plot, and sometimes theme). When I create an image I select the environment/background based upon both what I think is appropriate for the “story” the image is telling, and also for the general mood I want the picture to convey. The setting can also do an extra job of revealing character. Think about your own home: it says something about you, about who you are. In a superheroine-in-peril image, the setting is
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