#taw update

I’ve been tagged by @themildestofwriters​, and it’s been sitting in my notifications for a few days. I tag anyone who would like to do it, a lot of people that I follow have already done it.

How to know you’re in a Rose A. Lacroix novel:

If you fuck up with nature, nature will fuck you up. Trust me.

Humans aren’t at the top of the food chain. There are lots of things out there that want to eat you.

Main characters have kick-ass adventures, but they’d rather stay home and chill.

Straight white guys are NPCs.

Here’s a test render for Astrid! No postwork, done in DAZ Studio>Reality>Luxrender, with one HDRI and one mesh light above the scene. Decided to stick with Reality, because I wasn’t happy with Iray’s results. Materials are easier to control in Reality, and it interprets light better in my opinion.

What I want to correct so far:

Lips are too shiny and a bit too dark (looks like she’s wearing lipstick).

Hair is too thin, shouldn't be that see-through.

HDRI picture resolution is too low, and lighting negates the shadows on the ground.

Remember when I said that I would stop fiddling with Astrid’s features? I LIED.

I had issues with her previous face, because of all the morphs I had to apply. There were creases at places where there shouldn't be, and correcting everything in ZBrush was a pain in the ass. That's when I remembered that I had a figure from a previous generation that had the right features for Astrid. It took me a while to make it work, but I transfered Genevieve 7's face morph to Genesis 8. From there I only changed her brow arch height, and eye shape.

The Aroostook Witch will be less traditional fantasy now, but something closer to magical realism. Without being that completely. Magic and the occult in general will be more subtle, less about flashy special effects.

I should update my WIP page, but I also want to make my website which should be fully responsive, so mobile-friendly. I unfortunately don’t have the time and energy to do that right now.

I’m trying to work about The Aroostook Witch, but so far I have trouble to find the right time to write. I have like one free hour in the morning and in the evening thanks to the bus ride, but before school my brain is still asleep, and after I need to relax so I’m just listening to music and stare into the void. When I get home I usually work a bit on what I learned during the day, prepare next day’s lunch, and go to bed.

Me, planning the slowest burn that ever slow-burned.

My dumb characters, mid book 1: