RELEASE: Flurry Cowl

After weeks and weeks of sculpting, shading and texturing, the Flurry cowl is FINALLY out - and it's on ridiculous promotional sale! This week only, you can get one color for just L$8 and all four colors for $28. I'll say it again, that's less than $10 for a top that's fully detailed, shaded, with a sculpty cowl collar. Gryph has gone crazy. Myep.

The Flurry Cowl comes in Scarlet and Cocoa, shown, as well as Charcoal and Verdant. All four colors have the gold feather embellishment pattern and a fully shaded and textured sculpty cowl. The tops are tunic length. Wear them with your favorite jeans or pants, such as the Steampunk Virtuoso Classic Trousers *hint hint*. 

This is the first of the Feather Collection. I decided to work on a series that could be immediately recognizable to residents as "Oh, that's a GryphonWings design." This series will cover a variety of clothing styles but is held together by a few elements and motifs:

- Natural elements like raw leather
- The color gold (black and gold, brown and gold...)
- Feathers, both prim and painted (pretty!) and the GW feather logo
- Variations on a new GW art logo, a silhouette gryphon in flight (see sketchbook excerpt in previous posts)

 The next few items in this series will play with the gryphon silhouette.

Cheers!
~Gryph
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P.S.: As if you needed another reason to visit the shop, everything there is on MEGA SALE.

Altitude Series: Partial Release and Preview

As mentioned before in the Process post for the Steampunk Virtuoso series, I'll be coming out with companion items for the already-out Altitude Boots, shown here:

Originally these were conceived as part of the Steampunk series, but they branched off into their own wintry style. So, I separated them into their own series, Altitude, which could be a reflection of being a steampunkey dirigible pilot or just living in the mountains all rugged and stuff.

I realized a black version might look nice as well. On a whim I even did up a black-and-red version included free with the black boots to match Intrepid from the steampunk series.

These are also my favorite vendor images so far. They're simple and clean. I'm trying to figure out how to clean up my vendor images and take better product photos. Tres difficile.

The rest of the Altitude series will be coming after I get some work done on the brand-image collection with a gryphon logo. Next post for a sneak peek on that.

This should look familiar - it was in the Steampunk process post. The concept sketches for the rest of the Altitude series are in the bottom panel.

Cheers!
~Gryph
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Steampunk Virtuoso: Release

This is what my nonexistent readers have been waiting for: a writeup of the newest GW release, the Steampunk Virtuoso collection!

Though the corset and chemise rotted on my hard drive for months, I finished everything else in just a week in a frenzy of Modo and Photoshop and photo-taking and sleepless nights. Truly the artist's life.

You saw the sketches and screenshots in the Process: Steampunk Series post; here's the final result, in all its vendored glory. I chose to sell each separate item in color fatpacks to save prims and photographing time; the price is still comparable to what one would shell out for just one or two of the colors because of the lack of single options. Anyone wanting just one color can message me to work out a deal.

Originally overlooked as just a complement to the corset, the chemise grew into its very own item, capable of vague shirthood. It's a shame that people will often wear it covered the corset.

The soul of the steampunk ensemble, and the most clearly Victorian steampunk-inspired. All other elements could, at a stretch, be considered either modern or naturalistic; I haven't festooned prim gears over everything (terrible LOD).

Since steampunk is such a broad and undefinable genre, I felt I had the artistic liberty to stretch the definitions a little to suit modern practical tastes (read: I don't want to wear a bustle. Do you?).  

The corset is pretty detailed for a primless piece, with jacquard fabric pattern (yes, it's seam-matched - frak that took forever), Victorian-style button row, visible boning seam shading, and of course, back lacing.

*Whispers* I like corsets.

 

The laced trousers came out somewhat more risque than I intended (the sketch seemed somehow more tasteful). I try not to delve into the tacky, oversexed end of SL design work. With that in mind, I considered not putting these up for sale. However, I really do like the detailing of the cord, especially down the back leg which you really can't see in the vendor image. Perhaps eventually when I have more time, I'll replace them with a closed-hip version. In the meantime, I'm sure this will spit irony at me by being obscenely popular.

I'm much more proud of the sculpty-enhanced Tied and Classic trousers. It took forever to get the shading to remotely match up on the sculpt attachments, but they look reasonably smooth now. I'm also quite fond of the unique asymmetrical hip closure. Brass buttons - steampunkey!

I put two ensembles together to demonstrate the "look" of the items as a whole.

Erudite is definitely my favorite of these two; as I said before, the laced leggings shown here in Intrepid (especially in that color combo) toe unfavorably close to the unoriginal and oversexed end of design. I admit I caved to customer/friend pressure in the design process when adding that set. As I predicted, though, Intrepid mocks me by selling far better than Erudite. I fear for the collective taste of SL residents.

Anyway, the whole shebang is up in the GW mainstore front and center, so come check it out!

~Gryph
GryphonWings Designs