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• How I created Guardians
  by Julie Langford

  Ok – First I want to pay credit to both Susan Davies , who provided the base image of Castell…

  Ok – First I want to pay credit to both Susan Davies , who provided the base image of Castell Coch and to Rose Moxon , who kindly created the 3D dragons that I used in this composition. Thank you both – I could’nt have created this without you guys. / / I used Photoshop CS2 to create this image / / I started with Susan’s image below / / / / I used a duplicate layer [made the background invisible with the eye icon in the layer palette], and used a medium hardness eraser to erase all of the backgroung behind the castle to produce the image below. / / / / Then, I had to remove all those trees from the image, that were covereing the castle. For this I used various sized, soft clone brushes and fine paintbrushes to paint back in detail that was lost due to the cloning process – Very time consuming, but also very rewarding at the end of it. The image then looked like the one below. / / / / I then wanted to place the castle onto a rock tower, so I used a shot that I took at a local beach in the summer of 2007. This rock is only about 12 ft high. / / / / I pasted this rock image onto my composition as a new layer behind the castle, then again used the eraser to remove the parts that I didnt want, until I reached the result below. / / / / I then merged these two layers and used the edit transform perspective tool to change to perspective of the image – I wanted the image to look as if I were looking up at the caste slightly and I wanted the rocks to appear large and towering. The result is below. / / / / Now for the sky – I used an image that I took of a sunset in Cameroon in November 2006 / / / / I placed this sky image behind the castle – rock layer to produce the image below. / / / / Next I worked on the sky and castle layer in turn and adjusted the colour, using edit adjustments colour balance, until I created a nice tone for each layer, which both balanced with each other. I also adjusted the exposure slightly on the sky layer to give it a bit more kick. The image now looked like the one below. / / / / I wasn’t happy with the shadows and highlights on the castle in relation to the sky, so next I worked on both layers in turn and used dodge to add highlights and burn to add dark shadows and gloomy clouds. / / / I then adjusted the levels to make the castle layer a bit darker so it blended in with the sky – the result then became my base image which you can see below. / / / / I now wanted to add atmosphere to the image, so I created a new fill layer and used a very soft brush to paint in a light green fill at about 30% opacity, covering the whole layer in one go. I added a litttle noise and changed the blend of this layer to Colour Burn. The result was a deep rich feel that you can see below. / / / / I then flattened the image and just went over it to add any final highlights and shadows with the dodge and burn tools. / / I then used two dragon images that Rose kindly created for me – you can see them below. / / / / / / I placed these images onto the composition, using edit, free transform to resize them and then added a new layer to create some foggy mist around them. For this I used a lasoo tool, with feathering set to 30 to select the area that I wanted to have mist and filled it with white at about 30% opacity. I then added noise and added a box blur. I then added a glowing edge with a high spread to this layer by adding a layer style. The last step was to erase any mist that had covered the dragons with a fine eraser and using the dodge tool once more to bring out highlights on the creatures, before flattening and saving the image as Guardians / / To see the finished piece, click Here /

• Cloth Serie - Spirit Guide
  by japu

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• A Collaboration between Trace Lowe and Myself Makes Hits the HomePage!
  by Randy Monteith

  Hi eveveryone A collaboration between Trace Lowe and myself has made it to the Home Page. ...

  Hi eveveryone A collaboration between Trace Lowe and myself has made it to the Home Page. The theme seems to be Dragons!! This was alot of fun and wouldn’t have been possible without Trace’s great photo!!

• Recipe for Making Dragon's Eye
  by Randy Monteith

  Recipe for Dragon Eye: Take one wild looking texture shot Mix In a nice photo of a cat’s eye Go crazy with 100’s of mouse strok…

  Recipe for Dragon Eye: Take one wild looking texture shot Mix In a nice photo of a cat’s eye Go crazy with 100’s of mouse strokes to make the eyelash Create some lips from scratch Make some sharp mean looking teeth Add a touch of wild imagination Add a little PhotoShop Magic And voila a mean looking dragon you don’t wanna mess with! Click Here To See

• The Lady and the Dragon Reworked
  by frogster

  First I want to thank all of you that comment on this image but the more I looked at this the more I felt it was not finished yet so I re…

  First I want to thank all of you that comment on this image but the more I looked at this the more I felt it was not finished yet so I reworked it some and I like the way it turned out. I put a little softer touch to it and added a bit of smoke breath from the dragon and a bit of background. Let me know what you think.

• The Fantasy Group is looking for you
  by BySilent

  If your art or stories are based on the lore of dragons, fairy legends, alien worlds, landscapes from other realms, or if your work is in…

  If your art or stories are based on the lore of dragons, fairy legends, alien worlds, landscapes from other realms, or if your work is in honor of the heroes and heroines of mythological worlds or other sources then the Fantasy Group would love to have your creativity displayed and viewed. Fantasy Group

• Dragon Keep : A Collaboration with Trace Lowe and Myself
  by Randy Monteith

  Hi When I first saw his photo called Pink Bliss It inspired …

  Hi When I first saw his photo called Pink Bliss It inspired me the great colours and hues of this photo are outstanding So I Bubble Mailed Trace and he was all excited to work on a collab together and here is the result . Dragon Keep Thanks Trace this was alot of fun and well worth it! Randy

• Old Blue Eyes
  by Stephen Mitchell

  Check out this amazing photograph that my wife shot! / Well, after I pointed him out to her. This little guy landed on the reeds …

  Check out this amazing photograph that my wife shot! / Well, after I pointed him out to her. This little guy landed on the reeds I was photographing … and didn’t want to leave. / But “SWMBO”: had the macro lens, so I quietly asked her to quickly but slowly move next to me. Thankfully Frank Sinatra decided to stick around for his photograph. But he didn’t stay for his autograph, there was no second shot! Not bad! Whaddiya think?! Frank Sinatra? Old Blue Eyes? Still wandering why we called him that? / Then go in for the LARGE view to see the size of that eye of his. He was watching us watching him!

• A boy , his teddy bear and his dragon
  by Randy Monteith

  My 5 year means the world to me, he is amazing in so many ways. When I got up today he surprized me with all these questions about dragon…

  My 5 year means the world to me, he is amazing in so many ways. When I got up today he surprized me with all these questions about dragons. So this is dedicated to you Rory, long may you dream and ask questions. Rory posed for this shot this morning while still in his pajamas. Click Here

• Dragon Power!
  by Leoni Venter

  Someone just bought a card of Golden Dragon ! Thank you so much. I thi…

  Someone just bought a card of Golden Dragon ! Thank you so much. I think it’s almost my personal favourite of all my works, just because I looked so long for it and worked very hard to get it just right. It’s wonderful to know someone else likes it too!

• Gary Gygax died today :(
  by Nausinora

  Cancer finally got him. I owe that man gratitude of sorts for the years of fun I had in D&D.

  Cancer finally got him. I owe that man gratitude of sorts for the years of fun I had in D&D.

• ORDER:SQUAMATA Lizard Calendar!
  by Shannon Plummer

  / / This calendar is available for purchase. I…

  / / This calendar is available for purchase. Includes common and scientific names. Exceptional quality prints which can be used as posters or framed if the calendars are cut off = great value!! / / EARLY BIRD SPECIAL FOR AU$40! / + Shipping within Australia / / To order simply tell me your email and postal address and I’ll send a Paypal invoice and once paid I’ll have Redbubble post directly to you – EASY! / / shannonsphotography@mac.com / / ©2007-2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com / / / Cover – Western Smooth Knobtail Gecko / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

• red hot dino
  by robert murray

  I had my first t-shirt on the home page this morning…wow thank you RB a first for me

  I had my first t-shirt on the home page this morning…wow thank you RB a first for me

• "WHOO HOO!!!!" My FIRST SALE!!! :):)
  by Ruth Kauffman

  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, to the wonderful person who bought a card of my design, “GREEN DRAGON”!!! I only thought it was possib…

  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, to the wonderful person who bought a card of my design, “GREEN DRAGON”!!! I only thought it was possible for the “other people”!! You have put a smile on my face today!! God Bless!! /

• Behold the golden dragon!
  by Leoni Venter

  Well, here I am back in the internet cafe at Riverside Mall, Nelspruit, South Africa. I’ve just spent 45 minutes persuading a brown&white…

  Well, here I am back in the internet cafe at Riverside Mall, Nelspruit, South Africa. I’ve just spent 45 minutes persuading a brown&white “paint” horse called Puzzel (no typo, that’s his name!) to trot, canter and not throw me off, so I’m at least enjoying the air conditioning right now. The golden dragon is now full-size in hopes that someone, somewhere will want to have him on their wall. I’m also uploading some other fractals if this network connection doesn’t slow down any more. Speaking of prints, I had ‘Alien TV’ printed on sticky vinyl (my neighbours happen to do large-format printing) and mounted it last night. It looks pretty good! I’ve always liked working in light-emitting mediums, like computer screens. Printed versions of my work never seems to have quite the same impact, but this glossy vinyl print actually looks good enough to satisfy even me! Edit – 30 minutes later: This connection is useless! It times out or something and all that’s moving is the little counter ticking away my money. I don’t know how one is supposed to do anything online. This place surely has ADSL? My satellite connection at home seems to be more reliable, but it’s got that 500mb/month volume cap. Sigh. I wish we could get rid of our telecomunications monopoly here! / I’m giving up, sorry, will upload some stuff end of the month then, from home!

• Chasing the Dragon
  by Ham Sandwich Azzopardi

  The smell of fried scorpion on a woman’s breath always reminded Matt of Shin Shin. / High heel cock rock boots, tiny white teeth. The love…

  The smell of fried scorpion on a woman’s breath always reminded Matt of Shin Shin. / High heel cock rock boots, tiny white teeth. The love child of Hello Kitty and David Lee Roth. Shin Shin. / “This could be very fucking bad you know,” Matt says to Roger, turning his frustration to the film script he’s been working on. / It’s about to be made into a movie but the producer’s son has been cast into the lead role. / “This could be ten years of my life that’s going straight down the toilet. / “If this guy’s a bad actor, I may never recover. I have to just grab it. Snatch it back. That’s the only way anyone will respect you.” / “But wouldn’t it be good to at least see it get made?” asks Roger. / “No. No it wouldn’t, not if it’s going to come back to ruin my entire professional career.” / The men play acoustic guitar at a weekly jam night. / It’s the only night at the local restaurant that diners consistently avoid. / But the unplugged enthusiasts don’t seem to notice. / Harriet joins them. / They invited her for a drink after she walked in on their “gig”. / They order a bottle of red wine. / Matt’s running his hands through his hair. / Roger’s acting dark and mysterious, but it’s not working, he’s American. / All he really wants to do is play guitar like Hendrix so he can get a girl who loves him. / He is convinced all the girls in China prefer Matt so he tries to smile less and hides the fact that he manages stocks and shares on the internet. / When people ask him what he’s doing in Beijing he tells them he’s making a documentary. / The men pick up their guitars and bang on the strings as though they are laying bricks. / “Listen to my wildest dream, I’m going to do this, stop playing and listen to my dream will you?” says Roger slamming down his guitar and pawing his friend’s shoulder. / “I’m going to make a fucking documentary. About how it really is for Chinese people. It’s not all about censorship and repression. – most Chinese people don’t feel that way at all. / They don’t give a shit about politics, they’re going to their jobs and falling in love and walking their dogs in the evening.” / “That’s fucking right,” says Matt. / “There is so much bullshit reporting going on in the Western press.” / “Can I say something,” says Roger butting in. / “I don’t mean to bitch but can I just say something about the gig tonight? / “Do you think someone was singing out of key?” / “Yes, I do,” says Matt all clipped British sincerity. / “It was Narelle, right?” / Matt nods. / “What was her problem tonight anyway? I don’t really mind that she sings off key but she was definitely in the shits about something.” / Harriet looks bored. She doesn’t care about Narelle’s lack of musical skills. / She knows the whole band is core fucked and will play out of key forever. / She just wants to drink and sing some songs in a place where nobody knows her. / She opens up the songbook and starts. / The men are rapt. She can actually sing in tune and they’re looking at her like she’s Joni Mitchell. / Matt’s eyes are rolling into the back of his head with pleasure. / “We need you,” he says pointing at her like a drunk in pick-up mode on the dance floor of a country disco. / “You are exactly what we fucking need.” / Roger agrees but blames all the band’s failings on Eric, who uses jam night to learn the mandolin and hit on women. / “You know I hate to bitch because I love Eric, but I wish he didn’t play his mandolin so damn loud. / “To tell you the truth,” he says, “and I hate to bitch because I love Eric, he’s one of my best friends but do you notice how the decibels go through the roof on that mandolin as soon as a good looking girl walks in the room?” / Harriet tries to look interested and she’s noticing that Roger is patting her arm. / She chooses another song. Again the men are astounded. / “I love this girl,” says Roger turning to Matt and putting his arm around Harriet. / “Let’s go to the Forbidden City tomorrow,” he says. “I’ll show you around.” / They sing another, Harriet enjoys accidental moments of drunken harmonies with Matt as Roger plays the guitar. / Roger throws his guitar on the tiled floor, outside the first shade of daylight. / “She likes you more than me, I saw it. I just saw it,” screeches Roger unleashing his jealous streak and, smashing his head on the table. / “I saw it before. She likes your dark brooding miserable demeanor and what am I to her? Nothing!” / “She doesn’t like me,” says Matt calmly. / “And besides, I’m in love with Shin Shin.” / “Well I don’t care anyway,” says Roger, “I don’t even believe in love.” / Silence for a few seconds. / “But Narelle!” / “Can I just say something about Narelle?” / “We were going to do a gig at the Sandglass on Friday night. / And Narelle – she thinks she’s good friends with the owner of the place but really she’s outstayed her welcome, hanging around there all day and night like it’s her lounge room or something. / And anyway, she knows this other Spanish guy Carlos who actually plays guitar really well. / And before we know it, she tells the owner that Carlos is doing the gig. / Why did she do that?” he yells banging his fists on the table and throwing his head down onto Harriet’s shoulder. / Now even Matt is bored. He tries to change the subject. / “I just want people to respect me,” he mutters, hands wringing with renewed anxiety about his film script. I just want people to respect my work!” / “You know Matt, I respect you” he says stumbling over to Matt’s side of the table, putting an arm around his shoulders. / “You know, most people can’t stand Matt – they think he’s a complete prick.” he tells Harriet. / “But I love him, he’s one of my best friends.” / Matt dissolves into misery and laughter. / “Matt. You are a great guy and who cares what anyone thinks anyway? / You and I are going to make a great fucking documentary.” / “You know Roger, I asked Shin Shin to marry me,” Matt says in a quiet voice. / For the first time in many hours Roger is quiet. His mouth is open, eyes bulging and he is swaying. Almost like he’s choking on a pork dumpling and has just realised he can’t breathe. / “Don’t you fucking tell anyone Roger!” Matt screams and reaching over the table to grab Roger’s collar. / “Promise me, you won’t fucking tell anyone!” / Roger makes a quick recovery. / “Matt, Matt, Matt, how long have you known me?” he says in his sunny American way, now reaching over the table. / “Roger… Roger!” Matt knows he’s made a mistake. / He sees Shin Shin’s tiny white teeth laughing at him mockingly behind his back with every ex-pat in Beijing, her cock rock grey suede high heel boots relentlessly stabbing his ego into oblivion as he lays helpless, kicked to love’s curb. / “Matt. I won’t tell anyone anything about me that you don’t want me to,” says Roger, eyes closed, head flopping down. / Matt is relieved. He knows the man in front of him, black hair falling over his pale, overweight face, will remember nothing in the morning. / “Roger,” Matt says softly, looking up from the table, embarrassed to ask. / “Do you think Shin Shin will say yes?” / “Say yes to what?” says Roger. / “Yes to marrying me.” says Matt. / “No.” / “Why not?” Matt says. / “No – because the only thing Shin Shin can think about is herself. She’s too busy slicing her way through people to appreciate what she has with you. / “Maybe in a couple of years time she’ll look back and realise what she lost but no, I don’t think she will say yes to you.” / Matt is quiet. Harriet is too. / “But Narelle!” Roger explodes, throwing himself on the table. / “She’s a bitch! She stole our fucking gig man. She gave our gig to Carlos. How could she do that man?”

• Watch Me Work
  by Rowan

  If you want, you can watch the rendering on my fractal “darkside” here This, again, uses…

  If you want, you can watch the rendering on my fractal “darkside” here This, again, uses the program Context Free to recursively draw the design. It can save the image by rendering to any size (or a video).

• DO NOT SEE DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT!!!!!!!
  by Nausinora

  Seriously, any fans of Dragonlance should not see this movie. Just don’t. DON’T!

  Seriously, any fans of Dragonlance should not see this movie. Just don’t. DON’T!

• Dragon Calender
  by SMorrisonArt

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• Dip me in batter and fry me surprised!
  by jakiblue

  Well, that’s interesting. My “Mother of Dragons” is currently on the home page. Didn’t expect that. I’ve never worked out exactly HOW…

  Well, that’s interesting. My “Mother of Dragons” is currently on the home page. Didn’t expect that. I’ve never worked out exactly HOW the images on the front page are decided. I used to think it was because of popularity and comments received. But it can’t be that. I uploaded that image last night and it’s had 6 comments (not counting my own thanking someone). So it certainly didn’t receive enough comments to shoot it to the front page – and it’s had 39 views, which isn’t a massive amount – so I’m a bit confused. Are they chosen by a RB staffer who sees the new uploads and thinks “oooo that’s cool” and they mark it front page? Don’t get me wrong – I’m thrilled it’s on the front page! I’ve just always been confused about how they are chosen!

• Collaboration with Sarah
  by George Petrovsky

  Please take a moment to view a collaboration Sarah has produced as the last in her Avalon series, using my misty forest shot … “the fin…

  Please take a moment to view a collaboration Sarah has produced as the last in her Avalon series, using my misty forest shot … the final resting place: . Who would have imagined what was hidden in the mist!!!

• How Exciting!!!
  by Ruth Kauffman

  Dear Friends / How very exciting that my image, “Green Dragon” has been featured in the Bubbleicious group!!! This has just made my day!!...

  Dear Friends / How very exciting that my image, “Green Dragon” has been featured in the Bubbleicious group!!! This has just made my day!! / Thank you to those responsible…

• Are you a roleplayer, or inspired by them?
  by DivaMom

  Then there’s a new group just for you! Anything RPG-related or inspire…

  Then there’s a new group just for you! Anything RPG-related or inspired is welcome. This group is ALL about the RPG! / (Any RPG, not just the fantasy-based ones. Heroes and mechs are just as welcome as elves and gnomes.)

• Work Featured
  by ajax

  Was I pleased? You bet,my water dragon is featured on the Reptile and Amphibian group.{>:

  Was I pleased? You bet,my water dragon is featured on the Reptile and Amphibian group.{>: