Happy Halloween from Bettie

Happy Halloween, one and all. It's time to get my scare on by decorating my house (as some of you know, that's a big deal for me and takes a few weeks to get it all up and running). In the meantime, here's a little illustration to get you in the mood.

As usual, I started in Poser Pro 11 and completed my work in Clip Studio Paint EX. I was originally creating this character for use on a fanzine cover, but I ran out of time (I've got to do a quick turnaround on a cover for another Galaxy Prime book).

Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun creating this concept illustration and decided to share it with y'all.

© 2019 Mike Mitchell

The base figure is good ole Victoria 4, but I have a Bettie Page morph loaded (it came with the Betty Hair model from Daz 3D).

Nite Flyte Cover 04

This is the cover I mentioned last week. It's for a fanzine that will appear inside the SNICKER SNACK APA. This is actually just my contribution to the issue, but I like to do a cover for each issue in which I contribute material.

I started work on a large illustration with a lot of cool stuff off to the side, but the more I looked at it the more I realized that the skull was more effective when seen up close. So, this illustration is what I came up with. I particularly enjoyed inking the background – and I even think I did a pretty good job with the candle glows. But when I finished it, I really didn't like it. There's just something about the creature that isn't interesting to me.

© 2019 Mike Mitchell

So, even though this design was 100% finished, I decided to create a sexy little "red hot chili imp" and I was going to place her on the skull in some sort of sexy pin-up pose. Take a look at the next post and let me know what you think!

But... alas, her turn at stardom 'twas not to be!

I just ran out of time. I'm behind schedule on creating a cover for a new Galaxy Prime book, so even though I have the imp character ready to go, I just don't have time to create a new illustration. So, I went with my original cover (mailed out today, in fact).

Oh well, that's just the way it goes. Perhaps I can find use of her in another project or illustration. Time will tell.

Ultra illo selected as a Poser Staff Pick of the week (16-Sep-2019)

Got another surprise today!
My latest illustration, which was a quickie, was selected by Renderosity as a "Staff Pick of the Week." 

Ultra™ made it to the big leagues this week,
being selected a "Staff Pick of the Week" by Renderosity

A total of seven illustrations were selected this week, and the entire list can be seen here: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2937735&page_number=1#msg4362220

I think you need an account to see them, but I could be wrong.

This is the fourth time I've made the list, and once more I'm surprised because I really did this as a quickie. Which makes me wonder, maybe some of my other illustrations are overworked a bit and this quick ones contain more energy? Definitely something to think about!

ULTRA™ Quick Illustraion

Sorry for taking so long between posts these days, folks. I've just been tied up creating art, and that leaves little time to write about it. Here's a quick illustration of my ULTRA™ character.

Ultra flies to the rescue!
© 2019 Mike Mitchell

The usual workflow applies here: Poser Pro 11 and Clip Studio Paint.