Who is
desdemona? I am
Magda Vasters born in Poland and living in Germany for two
years now. I am happily married and have no children yet but a lot
of animals :) I was drawing since I remember, and always tried
desperately to make my skills better and better. Right now I am
working as a webdesigner and programmer and spending my nights on
drawing and texturing or hanging out on ICQ with my friends from
Renderosity. I am natural born Scorpio and my life and art is ruled
through emotions and my temperament, which are good visible in my
images I think...
How long have you have you been rendering?
I began my adventure with digital art long time ago with Aldus
Photostyler and Corel Photopaint 4, I think it is about five years
right now and with 3D art little bit later from Bryce2 demo version
and experimented with it a little bit. I went through different
software but Bryce was always my first love. I have started to make
serious creations about two years ago from Bryce 3D wich I got as
wedding gift from my husband and someday I missed human characters
on my images so my husband bought me Poser as a birthday gift.
Since then I started to visit Renderosity. First I was watching
this beautiful art here and thought that I would never be able to
do something like this. After half a year I decided to post one of
my images and to my suprise the feedback was huge an very friendly.
So I started to work like a crazy and posted without an end.
What are you currently working on? I am working currently on
a few textures and trying to develope my skills in this direction
cause it makes incredible fun. I am also drawing all the time and
trying to reach the perfection. There is still a lot to practice,
but I hope one day there will be no mistakes in my works.
What
software do you use and why? Right now I am using Bryce4 and
Poser4 and for post work Corel Photopaint and Adobe Photoshop. I am
trying to add my images less rough and more painterly look that's
why I am doing a lot of postwork and working on one image up to
five days.
Why do you like 3D art? I tried many different
styles already, I was painting with oils, pencils and water-colors
but since I discovered 3D art I am addicted to it. I think 3D art
is a future trend and You can make much more experiments with it,
there is so many different ways to create one image to edit it and
rotate as You wish and this is fascinating, oils and pencils do not
give You this opportunity. This is also incredible what is
happening behind the creating process, if You imagine that this is
what You see and trying to make with Your software is basicly pure
machine language consisted of 101010 this is incredible....it is
incredible how easy You can create art from a series on
mathematical operations which are taking place inside in Your
machine.
What inspires you? I am forever a dreamer, dreaming
all the time and I have images in my head which I have to make
simply. The people here give me an inspiration, their art, their
images I see everyday, my dreams. As a child I was fascinated with
surrealism, already a 10 years old child I loved Salvador Dali,
Zbigniew Beksinski and later came the fascination with H.R. Giger
but also with impressionists as Degas and Van Gogh. All of this
gives a shape to my creations till today.
How has this online
community (Renderosity) enhanced your work, relationships, and
learning? When I first came here about one and a half years ago
I thought I will never be so good as the artists here. I was shy, I
wouldn't even dare to talk to people I admired. I was just posting
and hoping that nobody sees many mistakes I was making. After some
time I learned a lot from people's comments and advices, they were
always friendly and I was taking every word directly to my heart.
This place and those wonderful people here helped me and my art to
become what it is today and I want to thank You all for this. I
have made my best friendships here, have met so many interesting
people....I have to say I never believed that this is possible. I
want to thank You all, friends artists and Renderosity staff for
making this place so wonderful - I love to be here and this choice
makes me very proud. Thanks and big *HUGS* to You all....
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