Creative interpretations: Oriental Dragon

Gary Richardson · #16 09-21-2006, 01:25 PM

Thanks Patricia and Craig for your kind words.

This is a great picture to work with, and I've really enjoyed looking at all the varying interpretations of it. So many different ideas.

Look forward to seeing more.

dkcoats · #17 09-21-2006, 02:26 PM

Thanks, Swampy, for putting this thread in motion. You've set everybody's creative juices flowing.

I went abstract on this one. Used Impressionist and added texture in CS2. I'd be embarrassed to tell you how little time it took.

dc

Swampy · #18 09-21-2006, 04:25 PM

Such varied interpretations! You folks are GOOD! :-)

lkroll · #19 09-21-2006, 06:07 PM

Yup; quite uncreative tonight. Glad that I have old friends that I can depend on for these times.

pavel123 · #20 09-21-2006, 07:57 PM

tried to make an oil painting

Janet Petty · #21 09-21-2006, 10:39 PM

This dragon just begged to be cartooned in a bold manner. I obliged.

Janet

Kraellin · #22 09-22-2006, 08:16 AM

janet, that's the look i was looking for! excellent!

craig

서한우 · #23 09-22-2006, 10:16 AM

hi all!!

image resizeing 550 * 440 work....

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Swampy · #24 09-22-2006, 11:52 AM

I love Chinese Red, but in saving this for the web, the colors really shifted to more of an orange.

I took a completely new approach this this.

Did some color correction by doing an Auto Levels on all three (RGB) channels.

Made a duplicate file and completely desaturated then ran the Photoshop Graphic Pen Filter. I then reduced this file to a BitMap (1 bit graphic, totally black and white). Then select all copied and went back to my original file.

Created a new Channel and Pasted in the B/W sketch then added this mask to a copy of the original and set the blend mode to Multiply. Added a little bevel and emboss. I duplicated this masked layer three or four times to bring up the color and merged all these duplicates and set the blend mode to Luminacity. Added a layer below with a bright red fill and some dragon scale texture.

The color shift doesn't do it justice, but it was a fun experiment.

pavel123 · #25 09-22-2006, 03:39 PM

Swampy, looking geat even with the color shift.

Pavel

lkroll · #26 09-23-2006, 07:42 PM

Well I'm getting better with my sewing technique. I created the orientation map using Photoshop's Cutout filter which gives a better sew stitch angle imo. I also (you may or may not noticed) did an outline stitch by using edge detect and Potrace and porting the vector into Mayura and using a dashed line setting for the lines. Hope you all like.

Swampy · #27 09-24-2006, 07:18 AM

Wild! Ikroll!

lkroll · #28 09-24-2006, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Swampy

Wild! Ikroll!

And who says men can't sew?

Glad you liked this one Swampy.

Cassidy · #29 09-24-2006, 09:14 AM

Looks amazing Ikroll

Steve Conway · #30 09-26-2006, 01:04 PM

Ah so....honorable Chinese dragon of many colors.

Steve