The Butterfly Project.

So? What is this all about? Well let me tell you about myself first off. I am a digital designer I have been in the industry for the last 6 years now. I spend most of my days toiling at a computer and sitting around drawing all day long. This has drastically effected my health. I have gained almost 50 LBS in the last 5 years so I am averaging out 10 pounds gained each year. That doesn’t seem like much in a year but what about 5 years from now? I have to make a change now. I try diets and exercise on and off but when work gets in the way I just seem to lose focus after a while and pretty soon all my hard work becomes wasted as I sit in front of my computer and render out some new characters.

So I have been thinking…. My husband is a stock photographer on this site and he has inspired me with a new idea. I would like to become a stock photographer… Not just any stock photographer but a character sheet stock photographer. I want to create a gallery full of turn around poses for any digital designer/artist to use as reference for his or her character sheets.

These sheets will include
Front
Back
Right Side
Left Side
¾ pose


Torso Turnarounds

Portrait Turnarounds

T Poses

They will include my weight and height


Ok so back to my health…. The doctor has told me I have hyper Tension. and that without some sort of life change I may be at a high risk for heart disease, stroke or heart attack. It also runs in my family you see. My work has gotten me into this rut its only right that I use my work to get me out of it.

I always need turnaround references and I feel that as lovely and inventive as some of the stock photographers are on this site I cant seem to find a proper/normal/straight forward turnaround pose to save my life. So I am going to do it. And its not just a project to help out the artistic community but a way that I can get my weight back on track.. I will be posting every 3 pounds lost a new character sheet. I will be doing a variety of characters but it will mostly start off with characters that you would probably see at my weight and height and then as my weight goes down I will be transforming to more stereo typical “beautiful” characters until I finally reach my goal and post my final character sheet which, you guest it, will be a butterfly type character.

I feel like this way not only can I see the progress but I can be held accountable and also that I can have support from the artistic community. Cause I can guarantee that I am not the only chubby artist out there and a lot of you will get where I am coming from.

I hope that this project is a success and that many great concepts can come out of the work done here.

Thank You

and wish me LUCK.


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You can check out my other galleries through these links

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Also my husband is this stock artist.

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