Because I still haven't found anything that I find both flattering, and "Greek" enough for Corinda. So, I've been researching hard lately, about what sort of Ancient Grecian hairstyle would look right on my avatar, while expressing both culture and personality, and this is what I have decided on (or rather, fell in love with as if it were meant to be)
Ganked without permission from here. hey it's better than hot-linking or waiting for a yes or no email.
Yeah, I know. It just isn't going to happen like that. I think the only chance I have of getting this hairstyle, is moding something I buy. I end up heavily moding any hair that I get anyway, it seems. So I don't know why this intimidates me so.
Another thing I must deal with when it comes to hair, is putting a hair base on my skin. Now that I have a trail version of photoshop reinstalled, I can see that there is an optional hairbase layer on the skin templates I use, but it has no actual hair texture, so I guess it will be clone brushing for me. Once I find a suitable base texture. New skin is *not* an option for me. I finally love the skin I am in, I love my bark, I will not change it except to mod my existing one as I go. That is what makes Open source high quality skin templates so fucking awesome.
One of the obstacles here, will be getting the right colour, which, I struggle with anyway. I have found the only way I can reasonable get the redish-purple colour that plums are... is by buying browns, and tweaking with tinting. Which means I always have some messed up color on my head before the hair texture rezes, and I never know how PINK my hair looks on other people's screens and in different lighting. Because, the secret to plum-ifying brown hair, is hot pink. And I *hate* pink.
So I am sure there is a lot of inconsistency when it comes to what colour of hair I am displaying and when, and it flusterbates me.
I also need to get my body shap down to a suitable grecian woman form. I feel like I have compromised a lot of those soft, curvy features for the sake of skirts. I need to strip down naked, resculpt my body, and figure out how to put my clothes on later.
Moving on. If after nearly a year with this avatar, having purchased more toga-type clothes than I wear, I realize I am going to have to get real on Chitons, even if I have to make them. That's the part I can't do, make them! I can put a texture on a shape, sure... but it's the fold, and wrinkles, and boobie shadows that are a challenge, especially since my working ability with photoshop is very limited.
But I dream of knee length Chitons, held together with cord, and pins at the shoulder, with flexy tufts of fabric that never quite make a sleeve or a mantle. I want colours, but not bright colours. unbleached linen/cotton, brown, sage green, with woven greek key on the trim. maybe even some subtle monotone pattern in the fabric.
And ripped! and just a little dirty. The Goreans are good for providing ripped toga-esque clothes. (Though my favorite is Chernobyl Rasmuson's Wine and grass stained toga. Only another wino-nature creature could truly capture a pure sort of dirty.)
So how am I going to do all this? I don't know, but I have been whining about it for nearly a year if you count the old wordpress blog... I have to do it. once upon a time, I never thought I would be able to build a working kiln, or houses, or skins (well I still need a template for those I can't really make them, but edit them)
So, maybe I need to search out templates for bateau and draped necklines, to see if I can combine them. It's insane though, how the easiest costume to make (literaly a sheet of fabric) is so hard to make in 3-d. Allt he more reason it seems so vein of me, to even attempt to make something so complicated.
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