Thursday, January 18, 2018–Day 18: Today is a "three-fer Thursday"–3 images instead of 1! All 3 are from "The Greek Girls", Apostate’s wonderful story that I illustrated in 2011. The first of these 3 was a study of what the girls might look like–sort of a proof-of-concept to see how the characters might look. The girl’s dresses are Grecian but I really couldn’t use them in the actual story because the dresses were for an earlier version of the Victoria character and didn’t really work on the V-4 character I was using. Too bad. They looked pretty good. I did use a variation of this rendering for the cover of the story and also for the funeral masks that appear at the end of the story. The second rendering is a test of what the girls would look like naked (and I think they look pretty good, if I do say so myself!) The last of the three is a recent re-working of one of the images during the girl’s crucifixion, specifically when the girl’s nurse, Alberta, arrives to comfort the dying Adonia. While I am pleased with much of my work in the story, some of the scenes on the cross, got a little sloppy. I was using a newer version of the software and a newer computer and I wasn’t really used to doing multi-figure images and we were anxious to get the story done. There are a number of things that still bother me a little in how it all turned out (not enough to redo them all, however) but this third image is sort of test of how I might have done it, if I were doing it now.