Beginning either on Day 49 or Day 635

I'm now into my second Second Life. Day 635 (or thereabouts, I'm a little hazy on the specifics) for my first him/her, coming up on two years. Much of that time was not spent in SL due to health reasons.

Curvaceous, now: she's been around for 49 days, and I feel like my level of experience matches this more closely :)

I've made clothes before. Bad clothes. Clothes that should never see the light of day. I'm determined not to let that stop me any more, though. Natalia and her blog have inspired me to try and create once more and to persist in the face of failure. Of which there may be quite a large amount, given that I'm a complete beginner to this, and tend to overextend myself anyway :)

This is the first shirt I made today in my new clothing endeavor. I'm pretty proud of it :) Yes, I admit I had help - Tateru showed me how to do a couple of things in the Gimp (I had forgotten everything I had learned the first time around) and the texture is not my own, but from deviant-art, but other than that ...

This is a somewhat better shot of the shirt detail - it looks even better inworld. What surprised me was that I don't seem to have fallen afoul of the great stretching that tends to occur across the breasts - then again, that seems to be more of a problem towards the edges, and Curvaceous' breasts, despite her name, are not that big. Style Note: Hair: Sirena Pamela Dipped Blonde (by Natalia Zelmanov), Maitreya Jeans Hotpants and Bootilicious Boots (by Onyx LeShelle)

Now for a quick squizz at the terrible shirt I made thereafter. It's not the worst I've seen, but even at this distance, the clouds from the original image look more like ... blotches of mud, really. It looks like Curvaceous has been in the wars! We won't mention seams and mismatched texturing at the shoulders or anything like that ... nothing can save this shirt.

Let me also reflect upon the awful skirt I made during the week. Alright, it wasn't that bad, just ill-conceived, and obviously displaying my lack of knowledge in this department.
I wanted something that looked just like an RL skirt I have: a mostly straight wrap skirt, with pleating only on the front of the wrap. Things came together for me somewhat once I realised that skirt panels are not flat ... however, no matter how much I wrestled with the panels and their settings, they persisted in interacting with the mesh skirt underneath, even at rest, which just didn't look right. I might try a double skirt in prims next time, or rather, a base and an apron of panels.

In this image, I am also wearing Iris by ~silentsparrow~, gothic witch heels by Shizuna Jeffries, and Tipped Cyan Tart hair by Cake.





This image has nothing to do with what I'm wearing, and everything to do with my avatar's shape. I'm recording it here for posterity, to see how it might change over time. Right now she's at minimal height according to the height slider, so in fact a little shorter than myself, but with my long legs. I've tried to shape her like me, and I think I have the body right. We have a little belly, a rounded ass, and breasts just over 50. Her face - well, I do wear make-up like that some days :)

Here we are in a previous incarnation: with my beloved camera! If you want one of these, check out slexchange.com and search for Medium Format Camera (made by Smoke Mission, the properties tell me). I'd love to find a microphone to complete the set, so that I look all journalist-y when I go out interviewing and not-so-secret shopping.







For my last image today I present myself in my favorite outfit before the Iris: the ~J~ Stealth Techsuit, by Jynne Salome, Octatkna Boots by Ameshin Yossari, mofumofu hair by Seu Ahn.


Here is my profile entry as it reads today:

I like to chat, but be aware that sometimes I am working in SL, and may not have much time to meet a deadline. If you ask me, I'll let you know :)

Blogger, scripter, artist.
Fiction writer, non-fiction reader, roleplayer.
Dreamer, doer, procrastinator.
Compassionate, selfish, patient.
Flawed, persistent, real.
Frogs, insects, orchids :)

Likes: company, music, solitude.
Dislikes: lack of communication.

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As you can see, I'm a bit ... contrary sometimes. I hope that doesn't put you off too much :)