Outstanding work, Ute

Cette image est absolument merveilleuse... J'adore !!!

You make her look good, Ute!

You can see the years of wisdom in her face, Well done, my dear friend!

Fantastic character, excellent done!

Der Ausdruck und die Stimmung sind dir klasse gelungen

You are a really gifted artist, Ute! Another magnificent image! Bravo and many fine kudos!

What a gorgeous portrait and atmosphere !

Amazing work as always Ute !

Fantastic portrait! :)

Wonderful work on this scene. Beautifully rendered.

Beautiful image my friend :)

Always a pleasure to be back here, Ute. I know nothing about 3D models, and I had to look up vicky3, and I'm still confused, lol...I assume you had to morph her to get this ageless woman's face. Whatever you did, you got a face that has the ages etched into it; and it's chiseled as if it were made from stone. And I mean that in a very good way---some people, as they reach old age, carry the wisdom of the ages in their faces. You've made her hair into a mix of silver hairs and braids, with perhaps a headdress underneath. And it flows like the wind itself. You gave her a necklace with (perhaps) arrows on it, or maybe those are candles...but it's dominant, as a number of Native American decorations are. And she stands against a twilight sky, as if she were at the precipice of the Ages. With a beautiful wolf howling behind her, and primal mountains, and the moon---or it could be another planet, which wouldn't be out of place in an image this primal. She's "frontal," which gives her real strength, though her face looks off to her right (our left), which gives her mystery. Beautifully done and conceived, Ute: It conjures the ageless toughness and yet sensitivity of someone who's lived long and seen a great deal. A Native American writer---herself, a woman---wrote of how women were the true "truth" keepers among her people; how, every dawn, it's the women who go outside and wake everyone with stories of their people and their day. And whose wisdom and love holds the tribe together. She was, herself, a writer and modern businessperson, and she stood for all the great feminist ideals. But, though she was praising a more traditional life, she said we should never forget that those traditional women were the 'rocks' of their people, the mountain ranges that held them together. I always thought that feminism---one of the great movements of our time---got much of its power from women like this; from women who had great power within, and conveyed it to the younger generations, so they could take it into the world. A beautiful portrait.

(The medicine man, Lame Deer, wrote of a rattle that his grandmother made for him: She cut pieces of her skin off, and let them dry, and then put the skin into the rattle. If you've never seen an actual Native American rattle, they're astonishingly tough: If you try to push a needle through the leather, you could break your fingers trying! Anyway, because of this, the rattle had pieces of Lame Deer's grandmother in it. So, whenever he shook it, he'd awaken her spirit. That's how much he revered his grandmother...)

Fantastic image! Very good artwork!