Creative interpretations: Oriental Dragon

[Swampy]

Here's a photo that might be fun to play with. Use your imagination and painterly skills.

[i.ilievski]

Here's My attempt... hope you'll like it

[patriciakay]

Great unusual pic Swampy...Thanks...


i.ilievski...nice pic...like the colors...



I used Painter lX...Dens funky chunky brush,Jeremys oil cloner changing the bush size as and when.equalize. Into Photoshop CS2 accented edges and an action for the frame...

[Kraellin]

thanks dee dee

patricia, i like that one! very bold!

craig

[Swampy]

i.ilievski.. very nice :-)

PatriciaKay... great colors!

[pavel123]

Patricia,
Very nice picture.

An old legend

[Gary Richardson]

Great Image Swampy, had to play.

[lkroll]

What can I say. I really like the effect.

[patriciakay]

Thank you Craig,Swampy and Pavel for your kind comments...It was a fun pic to do...

Pavel...Love the red dramatic sky...sets the dragen off perfectly...

Gary....like it lots...isnt it amazing how many different interpretations you can get from one image...could play forever...and probablly will!!!

Patricia....

[Drach]

..some quick entries from me, all done with Impressionist.
I'll take another look at it with Artrage when I'm at home

Enjoy..

[Swampy]

Great stuff. Keep 'em coming? :-)

[pavel123]

Next one ...

Found a page from an old manuscript ....


Pavel

[Kraellin]

gary, i like that. you really brought out the colors. shading is good too. sets it off nicely.

craig

[oltenius]

Thanks Swampy for this photo!
Dan

[palms]

Great photo and great subject Swampy, but boy did i find this one hard to come up with something didnt want a "normal painting" so opted for a mix of impressionist settings Sumi - e of course

Palms

[Gary Richardson]

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]

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]

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

[lkroll]

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

[pavel123]

tried to make an oil painting

[Janet Petty]

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

Janet

[Kraellin]

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

craig

[서한우]

hi all!!

image resizeing 550 * 440 work....


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[Swampy]

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 PS 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]

Swampy, looking geat even with the color shift.


Pavel

[lkroll]

Well I'm getting better with my sewing technique. I created the orientation map using PS'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]

Wild! Ikroll!

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Wild! Ikroll!

And who says men can't sew?

Glad you liked this one Swampy.

[Cassidy]

Looks amazing Ikroll

[Steve Conway]

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

Steve