Far World

This is a compilation of work done with CS5, 3DS Max 2010 and VUE 9.5 XStream.

For: mixed media 7 contest

Vigil

Thanks to fakethislife for the cliffs.

For: weave contest

I'm not Joker

Believe me.. I'm not Joker... No others stock adapted, what i like here is detail from the mouth

For: white face contest

The Darker Side

For: white face contest

Retro Poster

Used Illustrator and Photoshop As guidelines used also these 2 tuts: 1. http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/photoshop/retro-modernist-poster-design-3d-typography/ 2. http://designinstruct.com/graphic-design/make-a-retro-space-typography-poster-with-colorful-lights/

For: retro contest

Ace-of-Spades

Sources: for texture: http://www.pxleyes.com/images/users/m/mqtrf/419/fullsize/4a7087f650c63.jpg tutorial guideline: http://pshero.com/photoshop-tutorials/graphic-design/antique-ace-of-spades

For: retro contest

Quilter's "Dill-Lite"

For: dill flower contest

Down by the Bridge

Sections of the source were used to form bird shape, and the bird was completed using brush and pen tools. Please take a closer look for up-close details of the bird. Thanks to gharness at flickr.com for the lovely background scene.

For: round metal contest

Elven Hideaway

Deep in the forest, in a clearing hard to find, six magical little elves cavort around their elegant, comfy, quirky home. UPDATE: Replaced the background altogether. UPDATE #2: Added fantasy effect, explained in SBS. Many thanks to: Krappweis for the forest (new) juliaf for the elf Northam...

For: shoe fantasy contest

Wasp For Lunch

No outside sources used. Birds are made from parts of wasp which they are now eating for lunch!

For: wasp closeup contest

Coral Reef

Selections, fills, filters, Transform tool, Dodge / Burn, Liquify - warp. Some of the suggested elements for this contest. No brush or painting used at all. Just an old PS program that I still have. Anemonae desaturated and lowered brightness. Fish, one of them, burned more lines to make it d...

For: no painting contest

travel by foot-wear

For: shoe fantasy contest

The Sacred Golden Warrior

--- The Goddess of the Goldenspear tribe, long since exiled from their ancestral lands in Pixelian Vale, joined the Guardian Forces for monetary purposes. However, weeks turned into months, and fighting alongside the many holy warriors with fearless souls inspired her with the responsibility o...

For: golden gate contest

Bad Magic

After carousing all night with his wizard buddies, he decided to skip the hangover by just popping himself a few hours into the future. Unfortunately, he ended up popping something a few centuries into the past.

For: hoegaarden contest

A Mother's Love

A contemporary composition, designed using only the source photo.

For: hoegaarden contest

One Does Not Thank Logic

Heard the title on Star Trek :)

For: hoegaarden contest

Fruit, Sweet Fruit

Used only the source and photoshop

For: hoegaarden contest

Battle Seahorse

I knew I wanted to do this contest but it took me a long time to deiced what. I was almost going to but armor on a regular horse, but that just seemed to typical, then I realized I was just thinking of the wrong type of horse :)

For: armour all contest

Room with a View... or Two

Thanks to Lieven Verbelen for the perfect background. Special thanks to these photographers for their painstaking work in preparing their stock: AbsurdWordPreferred for the window, and JinxMim for the light fixtures, wicker, and garden pieces. I made the moon by drawing a circle (ellipse ...

For: indoor view contest

The Duel of Oranges

First idea that came to my twisted mind was an orange with magic circle around it. Then, I began to draw another things beside that initial ideas, so the final images grew outside my early imagination... Fantasy Theme always brings imaginative things comes into play. So there will be no questioni...

For: orange fantasy contest

Forest Lights

Check Step 7 for an animated gif of the steps in this piece. Sincere thanks to artistatplay (or atistatplay) for the inspiring base image, and to hirekatsu for the butterfly.

For: orange fantasy contest

Lullaby

It is said that music soothes the savage beast... it apparently works on baby beasts, too. Thanks to atistatplay and Stock-Karr for the images. Background is my own image, and "trees" is from CGTextures. Scale texture is based on a tutorial (link included). Brushes from rL-brushes. ...

For: orange fantasy contest

Libellule and Firetail

Queen Libellule and Her companion-dragon, Firetail ... dreaming of far-off places and worlds of green and blue. Full view is nice and Step 4 in the SBS is an animated GIF . Thanks to lockstock (from her Elizabeth pack). All images but the figure are my own. Any brushes used are stock PS or cr...

For: orange fantasy contest

Chinese Dragon

For: white cups contest