Wetsuits !

A new wetsuit design.

identity - Everyday suit

You thought I had stopped working, but no! I have been working away on completely new designs and they have been taking all my time.

I am very fast on the graphics packages but I spend ages trying to get things right, testing various materials, shading, colours and styles. Well now I am happy with my new suit designs and starting to move them from hard-disk to Second Life.

This is a business suit designed to flatter the body, make you look good and to give the correct first impression. This version is from the Everyday range which comes in classic colours of Grey (shown), Blue and Brown and includes matching shirt and flexi tie.

Model is wearing.

• identity Everyday - Grey suit
• identity - GC Shoes black
  
• identity shape - Alain body shape
• Armidi - Cadiz hair
• identity [eloh] - male skin
• laqroki - male skin
  

A bridge for Middle Earth

This is a bridge I am working for a Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings) sim. This is one of several buildings and the others will include a throne room, library, work room and temple. Then there are all the small props to build, such as a tapestry frame, seats, books, lighting and so on. I just love SL and the ability to try out various things I could never do in real-life.

Disconnected

I am offline and may be for a while longer.
My ISP (Internet Service Provider) has been bought out and to cut costs the new owners are moving everyone across to a cheaper network.

They disconnected me on Thursday 23JAN08 and, this being Monday, I have been offline for six days. I was told I would be re-connected last Thursday but things are not looking good.

I am just angry and frustrated and terribly unhappy with my ISP and we will be moving to an alternate supplier as soon as we can.
We started with Pipex some years ago Pipex and have been on the same tarrif of £20 for a 2Mb connection. Meanwhile Pipex introduced cheaper and better services with a 30Mb connection availabe for te same £20. I also found out that our connection is throttled under heavy usage which accounts for the speed dropping to 1.5Mb when playing SL.

Now Tiscali have taken over we have been disconnected for some time. Seems like time move ISP! Their service desk charges 10p/minute and whenever I manage to get onto them spend something like ten minutes waiting and paying to listen to their selection of music.

Read more here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/tiscali_pipex_migrations/
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3373-tiscali-slowly-migrating-pipex-users-to-its-own-platform.html

RPM Car Dealer of the Future

My free racing outfits were reviewed at:
G.L.A.M.orous Thanks to Cherlindrea Lamont for reviewing them so carefully and visiting to find out where they could be located!

Animal print

Three Animal Print designs and my favourite is the Leopard.

Note: The Giraffe and Zebra are from Zoo animals and the Leopard print is from a Leopard hit by a car.

New design postponed

I have a new clothing design which I thought was ready, but I checked it in the new Windlight viewer only to find that windlight renders the clothes with lower contrast so my new top looks flat and listless where in the old viewer it was subtly shaded and coloured. I need to redo the texturing and shading before releasing it.

The same happens with my skin. I have several skins that I use for modelling and all of them are quite light. Under Windlight all the light colours get washed out and my face looks pale and chalky with no detail. My blushed cheeks have gone as well as my eye makeup. I will need too buy new skins which is going to be very expensive. My suggestion is that if you are buying a skin to go for the more suntanned version.

I hope to release two new designs next week.

Racing designs

Hard Days Night

Picking up on the 1960s, the era of the Beatles, Kinks and Rolling Stones, this suit was designed for a Monkees tribute group. With black felt collar and light gray suit I have included various coloured shirts, including white and black. I named it "Hard Days Night".

Short sleeve sweaters

Original short sleeve sweater designs with large yarn patterns in five colours. These are designed to mix and match with my Ms Jane and Formuala ranges, or a good pair of jeans. I will be adding a different shade of blue to give more colour combinations.

Six Ms Jane shoes

Classic everyday shoes by identity

RPM-Car

Three of my outfits at RPM-Car, two of these outfits are free courtesy of RPM-Car who are giving away branded outfits. RPM-Car can be seen at Dutch Business Park where you can drive a free car, play an asteroid game and have a car built around you.

Fashion show 4NOV

Modelling my Dress 50 is Dirjha Summers who kindly took this photo as I crashed trying to do the same!

The show was held in Business Bureau Island and attracted over 40 people. The incredible Seraphine Khorana directed the show, remembering to describe the clothes and introduce observations as she talked. The models were great, including my own Kane Thorne making his first appearance. Kitten Ouatcha had set up the catwalk and reduced drag on the sim. Can't wait for the next show!

Fashion Show November 4th

I will be showing the Felicity womens suit, Ms Jane shoes and the BC Mens gray suit at the
Business Boutique Fashion Show 4th November.

I feel tense about as this is my first show. None of my clothes were used at the last fashion show as the male model(s) could not get there as the sim was full. It has been over two months since then and my collection has grown significantly.

Marybell - Dress

A simple honey coloured dress. The pattern is of egg shapes with a dark and light pattern though others have seen Giraffe and Tiger patterns.

RPM-Car

I have been doing a commision for RPM-Car of free racing clothes. They are a company who understand SL and have a permananet display at Dutch Business Park.

I am making several sets of clothes and the prototype red and black set is show above. This will have a shirt, mens pants and mini-skirt.

Dress 50 in black

I am very pleased with this one, red and black are always a good combination.

Autumn fashions - Dress 50

Inspired by the latest London Fashions this skirt, trousers and sweater combination picks up on the seasons themes. Combinations of wool and velvet materials, knee-length skirt and cropped sweaters.

The colours of this outfit are based on the Blackberries that I find walking this time of year. Mixing deep ripe blues with the purples of ripening fruit.

Six parts, twelve looks. Includes a knee-length skirt, trousers and top. Accessories include two cropped woolen jumpers.

I called this "Dress 50" as this years fashions seem to look back to the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Re-release of my chinese tops

This is an older design but re-released. The top is partly inspired by the Mandarin collar, but I wanted a sexier look. The pants are pinstripe with a slight sheen to them.

This is a darker top. I actually have about five colours but decided to see how they sell.

Update from July to September

I have not posted for a while although I have still been busy. My clothes line, identity has been very good for me, but I have not seen sales go up or down in five months. I have tried increasing my advertising through classifieds, openened new shops, put clothes on SL Exchange and OnRez; despite all this my monthly sales have not changed. I need to bring in more Linden Dollars to pay for my Island as I will not use actual real-life money to pay for SL.

I dissapeared for about two months trying to establish a line of fantasy clothing, but have made no sales, despite being happy with the designs.

Now I am back and making more for identity. In the last two months I learnt more about the graphics packages I use and hope to get closer to my original vision. I hope you like my new designs and extensions of old designs.