Hello good people of Renderosity, I hope you are having a great Friday evening. I plan to have a very good weekend myself, and get a lot of writing done. One way of staying inspired is to make portraits. When I'm too lazy/tired to do full body poses with every little joint in place, I focus on portraits. Character is custom made by me by creating a morph in Zbrush. Skin is by MaskEdit. Hair is My Renderosity buddy WarpedHalo pointed me in the directions of A_'s excellent tutorials, and I have tried to make good use of her tips. As for WarpedHalo - aka Tina - she is an inspiration to me as well, I love browsing her gallery. My poor dog Jarmo has a cone around his head aftr surgery (neutured) and he walks into every piece of furniture we have. Poor Jarmo, he had to forfeit his jewels in order to get a baby sister this summer. We're getting a black Labrador Retriever girl in July! I know he will think it is worth it by then. (Right now he regards us with a "et tu, Brute"-look on his face.) So, with these selective topics I say goodnight, folks. :-) *grin* Gun aka Redheadgrrl