nelc: This is a redraw of the cover of

nelc submitted:

This is a redraw of the cover of Savants & Sorcerers, seen here. It was done using Poser and Photoshop, as is my want. The model used is an unmodified Victoria, with a fisheye camera angle, and the clothes were painted on in Photoshop, because I still haven’t figured out clothing in Poser.

The pose itself isn’t too bad, seen in a normal view, I think, considering that the subject is supposed to be making mystical passes to form the Exalted charm Death of Obsidian Butterflies (which summons a host of sharp-edged butterflies to cut one’s enemies to ribbons). She’s vertical and not unbalanced or overly bent or twisted, though she is placing one foot directly in front of the other. Probably something to do with the spell-casting.

The camera angle exaggerates the hips somewhat, but not as much as in the original picture. I think I could have made the model more hippy while still within human norms, but it still wouldn’t have matched the ultra-callipygous, wasp-waisted original. I couldn’t get her boobs to point in the directions of the book cover; I had to either bend the model down, or alter the camera angle, which totally altered the composition.

I’m still not sure whether I could have given the picture enough headroom to place the arch in the cover’s position without altering the camera angle. I may experiment some more, now I’ve got the redraw done.

The clothes are still ridiculous, of course. I don’t quite see the point of a teddy with pauldrons, for instance. But who am I to comment on what a sorcerer in mythical times may wear?