EscapistAngel

Long time no sea, no lake nor posting. I saw the movie Chocolat (a wonderful one, if possible, do watch ) a couple of days ago, and tonight I started wondering if I could make a picture of the taste of the perfect cup of hot chocolate. I also had the urge to try Sharp's line sig tutorial. Behold, the mighty ostrich! Also to be found under the Misc. category in first post.

Hopefully I'm in time.. I would've submitted this yesterday, but my computer crashed and I decided to go to bed and try again this morning. If I missed the deadline, I'll take this back, just notify me, please Anyhow, 100% by PdN http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3710/aotw6layers.png

Sounds like you could use this tutorial: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=28790

Wonderful! I did the skin's texture by some noise with a couple Reliefs. For the flesh, I stretched some noise that had went through Dents and used Polar Transformation to get it in a ring. Other than that, it's by the tutorial.

Sorry, Welsh, I rudely used your image But, with just a couple of small steps, some depth and more gloss can be introduced

Another, if small, update (located under Fanart)! Made just tonight, following aguba's wonderful 3D tutorial (viewtopic.php?f=31&t=33668) And, also! The whole main post is now fitted with links to full-size images either in my dA or ImageShack.

Wow. Pure awesomeness. This, my sir, is a tutorial worthy even of stickying, perhaps? Clicky

If I can recall correctly, it was quite according to Ash's legendary chrome tutorial, but with some motionblurred, grayscale noise, a few duplications and blend modes on two, differently luminous, straight rectangles which, after I was all happy and had flattened them, I used Polar Transformation on. O Almighty Carp, the Creator and Maintainer of all that is fishy around the forums, what a sentence

Update in the Wallpapers/Backgrounds section! EDIT: I could of course say something about it.. Started playing around in PdN after coming across this (viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27095) old beauty, and half an hour later...

That looks fantastic! I'll have to try this as well.. See you later this year, I believe this is a project that's going to take long As far as I can see, it seems to be possible in PdN. We'll see

Thank you all, surprisingly many have come so soon :O That was actually a tutorial by MadJik, I'll see if I can find it. Nope, seems to have been lost to the abyss of Legacy Tutorials. That specific piece is my first proper glassy image I copied the original black thingy over and over again decreasing its size, contrast and opacity every time (scriptlab by pyrochild saved the day and my wrist ) and lastly just a dark-red to transparent gradient on a new layer with funny blend modes.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After a long wondering (and wandering around the forum), I've made up my mind: I'll open a gallery thread of my own. I'm not very creative in terms of "pieces of art per elapsed time" (meaning I'm slow ), but I like to think I take the time to fine-tune the few pieces I ever finish, let alone showcase. For the time being, enjoy these if they are to be enjoyable. Be Welcomed! You who have daringly entered these quarters, pray, continue with the same astonishing bravery, and witness what some imagination, some awesome, inspiring music, some skills with graphics and some incredible luck can produce! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fanart xP Nah, say, art inspired by certain artists or music Hidden Content: Fanart Warning! Full size on average 1680*1050 and all are .png Wallpapers/Backgrounds Hidden Content: Backgrounds Warning! Full size on average 1920*1080 and all are .png Abstractish/ All the rest (Miscellanous) Hidden Content: Miscellaneous Realistic (tries) Hidden Content: Realistic See Also: My dA for some bonus material I didn't find worthy of adding here. Any criticism, most likely constructive, will be appreciated and received with pleasure. Also, if you'd happen to be so kind, forget the "Angel" from my name. I signed to this forum mighty long ago and didn't use my account for a year or so. So, the -Angel is just a reminiscence of a folly of those long-gone times and I would get rid of it if I could (or would have the effort to plea one of the mods for mercy ) In short: Just call me "Escapist"

If this is just the start for 2010, I can't wait for the rest of the year! Thank you for existing, oma!!!

SkullSplitter, that's nice, but I think there are quite enough sig tuts. After all, though it looks nice, it's not that unlike all the ones the forum already has. Yesternight I was listening to Rammstein and had an urge to recreate their logo.

Thank you for this! Very nice. Just to try it out:

Yellowman, that IS beautiful! The first-ever picture by PdN with my new laptop. Though it's some few months old, I thought I'd show it. It's originally 1920*1080 (resized to 900*something to show it off) and was my background for a long time, and just yesterday I had the urge to find it again, and now it's up once again

I once made a fir and it turned out quite nicely, if I remember correctly! Just let me find it from that other computer I'll edit it in once I find it Here we are It's not that good now that I look at it... It's far too uniform and altogether boring. But there isn't much more to getting a nice tree than creating a good branch and copying, twisting and turning it around all over the tree. Patience I even had something in mind when I created that: I'm actually proud of that water and the candle the grass is horrible

I believe I have just found the perfect way of demonstrating what it means that tilt shift makes things appear miniatyre. This video is incredibly great It really shows the power of tilt shift on a parade in Paris

I've been wondering for quite a long time now about the deepest secrets of DPI, and this just did all the wondering for me Thank you very much! Just one thing.. Either I've missed the whole point of the lesson* or there's something amiss there: *Which would be a shame since it's such a nice one

Oh my, what are you implying?! This is a family-friendly forum Of course I knew it could be interpreted in many varying ways That's part of the fun in Rammstein's lyrics, isn't it? The main point of this post: 1680*1050 & .png

Axle, I like that. Simple and stylish! Here's a Rammstein-background I made harshly misusing a tiny stock picture that was made (probably with just as harsh misusage) using the coverart of 'Rosenrot'. Be warned! For it is 1920*1080 and .png Seine grösse macht mich klein "His great size makes me small"

It seems to be quite tileable, and it's nice and shiny (and metal, even?) Perhaps with some noisation (it's nice to make up one's own words ) it could be a texture for a stone wall? Maybe it's halloween's approachal or I'm just getting blurry, freak and dim all around Here's the Undefinable Thing waving across from the Just-as-odd-a-place-of-Things-Defying-Definition EDIT: Failed spelling, as always Perhaps spontanious perfectionism is a curse laid on me EDIT2: EDIT3: Now this's just ridiculous :roll: EDIT4: GAAAAHHH :o :evil: EDIT5: Never mind

Frontcannon, that star is pure awe-inspiringness!! And Possum, Abstract No. Five's nice and vibrant and.. This umbrella seemed the best place to put this I looked through a site of optical illusions and came up with an idea after a few pages... It's a towerish...thing coming towards the viewer,eh? Every pentagon has a corner that's lighter than the rest of the same pentagon? If you don't already know this illusion, do the magic with the eyedropper

Now that's wonderful! Any tips on how it was made or might I have missed them not going through all the pages of your gallery? EDIT: Oh, hey, flip. I agree

Yellowman: I'll second that tutorial for the curtains/generic fabric And Possum: that planet's something out of this world Here's a knife I did the other day.. Just decided to try out Oma's different tuts and they got somehow mixed EDIT(s): Won't say anything about my spelling :-P