Matron of Darkness

Thanks to Lisajen~Stock from Deviant Art! Edit: Special thanks to OliviasArts for pointing out my raven sources weren't allowed - i've reuploaded the image, this time using bats. Thanks also to GolemAura for helping me out. I personally don't like it as much as the first one, but i think th...

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Steampunk submarines

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watashi kirei?

The legend is said to originate with a young woman who lived hundreds of years ago (some versions of the legend state the Heian period) and was either the wife or concubine of a samurai. She is said to have been very beautiful but also very vain, and possibly cheating on her husband. The samurai, ex...

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Doing fine

Source 3: thanks to micromoth @ SXC.HU, he/she is also notified.

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Steampunk Dolphin

I have found some amazing stock based on PNG files that I think are really really useful and of a very good quality! Credits to: - "magneto1969" for the dolphin under water pack: at http://magneto1969-stock.deviantart.com/; - "unholy stock" for the amazing old boat PNG, at:...

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The Time Tamer

Ok....I have only one word to say about this....looooots of work...and lots of sources! I have dreamed to create a steampunk image for a long time now...and I'm happy I got the chance to do it! Hope you find it interesting for a first try! First of all million thanks to Becky Stock on deviantar...

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Imagine

Only source ..

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Confronting His Alter Ego

This is primarily photoshop with one outside source. I used smart sharpen on the mask image and worked to marry photos with illustration. Even the background is from the contest source. Combination of noise and texture filters with gaussian blurs created the textures.

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Troll

A troll is a member of a race of fearsome creatures from Norse mythology. Originally more or less the Nordic equivalents of giants, although often smaller in size, the different depictions have come to range from the fiendish giants to a devious, more human-like folk of the wilderness, living underg...

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Shadow casting man

Role reversal... Please see SBS & high res, this wasn't easy! :)

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the pidgeon

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Wind Chime

Something's not right. I like the head part and the pole and strong. The body and the tail...tell me what's wrong..lol.. Thanks Mark Lonsinger for the chain. http://dracoart-stock.deviantart.com/art/Chain-1-18844892 And thanks Lucie for the back ground. http://lucieg-stock.deviantart.com/...

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Alighting

Only the source image is used.

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Come on daddy, It's funny

The first chopper Hope you like it

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Granpa's bike

No outside source used.

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line horse

what I saw looking at the source were lots of lines and this is how the line horse was born. after countless layers and lots of time I think the result is simple but also complicated like the horse I wish to have one day (this time a real one)

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Still Life

Only the source image is used. Please don't laugh at its simplicity. This entry is historical. I started it last year when the same contest was active, but could not finish it and left it on the side. Yesterday when I was looking at the images in this contest, I recollected that I have something h...

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The Trial

Dead Can Dance...! All my senses rebel Under the scrutiny of their persistent gaze. It took a lifetime to get here, A journey i'll never make again. For those who have accepted the burden of shame, For the innocent only guilt will remain And our lives will be forced to accomodate The per...

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Redesigning the Past

This was a fairly easy job, but I thought that due to the fact that the source image is quite difficult, the easiest way was to use the pattern on the wood. So I did a selection of that pattern and put it on top of the Parthenon columns. Changed blending mode to hard light and then duplicated laye...

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Misty Morning Fun

Children always remember the fun times.

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Screaming Leafman

Old entry, did a few edits on it since last time, like the bottom of the nose.

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Some kind of monster

Oldie one :-) ------- Only source used and plenty of PS :-)

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Spider trinket

Had a lot of fun making this trinket. Only source used, I used my own spider photo I took for reference which I will post in the SBS ENJOY

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Warrior Princess

An oldie... I had began it with an illustration for the face, but changed it when I was notified I couldn't use it ;) (edit: lightened face)

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