Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category

It’s been too long since my last post!  I have been very busy with another (!) expansion to the store, and with the design of the male faery series. I’m delighted to introduce my full Male Faery series, royal consorts to the Atea Avatars Faery Queens.

Each faery is a complete avatar, with custom fae skin, fantasy makeup, shape, hair, eyes, faery ears, faery boots, dagger, outfit and scripted flexi-wings. Also includes prim eyelashes and facelight.

Mataara Twilight Male Faery – Mataara is a mystical male faery created in twilight tones. His twilight faery eyes compliment his hair, wings and fantasy skin.

Mataara Twilight Male Faery Avatar

Mataora Forest Male Faery – Mataora is a mystical male faery created in forest tones. His forest faery eyes compliment his hair, wings and fantasy skin.

Mataora Forest Male Faery Avatar

Matatane Autumn Male Faery Avatar -Matatane is a mystical male faery created in autumn tones. His honey amber faery eyes compliment his hair, wings and fantasy skin.

Matatane Autumn Male Faery Avatar

Mata’ura Wine Male Faery Avatar – Mata’ura is a mystical male faery created in dark red tones. His wine red faery eyes compliment his hair, wings and fantasy skin.

Mata'ura Wine Male Faery Avatar

Matahuira Shadow Male Faery Avatar – Matahuira is Tahitian for “dark appearance”. Matahuira is a mystical male faery created in shadow tones. His shadow faery eyes compliment his hair, wings and fantasy skin.

Matahuira Shadow Male Faery Avatar

Matai Aqua Male Faery – Matai is a mystical male faery created in cool aqua tones. His cool blue eyes are a stunning contrast to his aqua hair, wings and fantasy skin.

Matai Aqua Male Faery

The Male Faery Series may be purchased in world at the Atea Avatars Main Store in Qissence.

You may also purchase the avatars using my Xstreet Webstore.   Thank you for your interest. –Atea

This has been a busy time for Atea Avatars as we expand into fantasy markets and participate in some of the many fantasy fundraising events happening during this time of year.

One of the events we attended at the end of May was the wonderful Mystical Festival hosted by Lyr Lobo. The Mystical Festival features some of the best build classes I have taken in Second Life, along with concerts, games, and activities. This was the third annual event and the third festival I have attended! In 2007 I met the first Isle of Wyrms dragon I saw in Second Life at the Mystical Festival, the majestic Skylarian Isachenko, who will be a contributing author to this blog.

All proceeds from the Mystical Festival events benefit Relay for Life in the fight against cancer. I created a special faery for the event, the Mysti Summer Faery. All of Mysti’s sales benefit Relay for Life. Mysti is currently available for purchase at the Qissence main store and in some of our fantasy market shops.

Mysti Summer Faery

Atea Avatars will be a featured creator in the upcoming First Annual Friends Fighting Cancer Fantasy Faire, which is a multi-sim happening taking place from June 15th to 21st, 2009. Here are some of our featured shots for the Faire:

Fantasy Avatars

Faery Avatars

Neko Avatars

Find out more about the upcoming Fantasy Faire at http://fantasyfaire2009.wordpress.com/

Mysti Summer Faery may be purchased at the Atea Avatars Main Store in Qissence http://slurl.com/secondlife/Qissence/121/97/49

Gosh, it’s hard to believe that May 1st has come and gone. Where did the time go? I’ve been busy continuing the expansion of the Atea Avatars faery forest. On Friday SomethingReal Atkey from Artisan Prefabs dropped by to create some steps and sidewalk to connect an expansion to the main store. He also customized the expanded store for me. It’s still a work in progress.

I also added a Treehouse to the grounds as my private home. Marion Lean of Blue Pearl Homes and Furniture is one of my favorite home builders in Second Life, and this is one of his designs.

I haven’t quite finished furnishing the interiors, but started with a fabulous leather living room suite by Candace Hudson, who does some of the best texture work in SL. She has been one of my favorite furniture designers in SL for quite a while. Here’s a shot of the living room in progress:

One of my fondest additions to the faery forest is the dragon tea party from Julia Hathor from Creative Fantasy. What a fun, imaginative piece of work!

On the avatar front, I’ve been wrapping up some avatars that I have been working on this spring. I have two more ready for the ladies, and will hopefully complete my male avatars in progress soon.

Moira Modern Female

Moira is a sexy modern girl next door. This is a complete avatar, with a custom freckled skin, 3 hairstyles (one with biker scarf, one with a hat), natural brown eyes, three designer outfits, sneakers, shoes, and earrings.

Miriama Elegant Evening Female Avatar

Miriama is a lovely female dressed for an elegant night on the town. She comes with an exquisite golden ballroom gown with gold shoes; an elegant red flamenco gown with red shoes and traditional hairpiece, and a lovely blue gown with matching shoes.

Visit the Atea Avatars Faery Forest and Main Store at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Qissence/121/97/49.

The interesting thing about creating avatars in Second Life is that I never really know which avatar might appeal to Second Life residents. Sometimes I create an avatar that I personally love but for some reason isn’t really popular and doesn’t sell well. Other times, I create an avatar or a series that appeals to a broad audience or attracts a niche. In the case of my fantasy avatars, the faery queen series is quite popular.

Before making the faery queens, I made a very basic faery that I called Maeva.

She was my first attempt at a fantasy avatar and, though lovely, nowhere near as complex and interesting, in my mind, as the faery queens.

I was actually going to retire her after releasing the faery queens. However, one of my customers talked me out of that, explaining that she was a great starter faery for newcomers to fantasy avatars. Here’s the interesting part: once the faery queens went up and attracted a strong following, little Maeva also started to attract a following of her own and became a very popular item.

I thought it was time to create a few sisters for Maeva. Here there are:

Miri Pink Faery

Mauve Lavendar Faery

Matahina Blue Faery

Come see them for yourself at the Atea Avatars Mainstore. Stop for a while and take a stroll though the pathway in the faery forest. If you explore the Atea Avatars grounds you might just find the faery queen’s residence. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Qissence/121/97/49

I’ve finally finished the Faery Queen series I have been working on this fall. The Atea Avatars Faery Queens are elegant, sophisticated faeries who command their realms and hold dominion over forests and waters, fire and air, dusk and dawn, and the turning of the seasons.

Each Faery in the series is a complete avatar, with custom fae skin, fantasy makeup, shape, hair, eyes, ears, cloak, sculpted shoes, faery gown, faery wreath, and scripted flexi-wings. Also includes prim eyelashes, a facelight, stockings and gloves. The faery queen outfit may be worn as an elegant long gown or as a short modern faery dress.

The Faery Queen Series currently includes:

Moerava Winter Faery

Mareva Moon Faery

Maeva II Spring Faery

Mahana Dawn faery

Mahina Fire Faery

Moerani Autumn Faery

Atea Avatars, specializing in high quality complete avatars and distinctive characters in fantasy and realistic forms.http://slurl.com/secondlife/Qissence/33/51/52