a challenge!

[Alicia]

I have seen much talented art here...but is there anyone who draws dragons...? Pix help me with my writing and I like collecting dragon pix, and would like to add a few more. I have yet to see a really good pic of a wyvern...particularly a red one

[shandril]

well here is a couple of pic's plus an address if you are into sketches

http://www.skreap.com/Dragons/

[Alicia]

Thanx for the pix (I especially like the red wyvern with the black background. I also enjoyed lookin' at the sketches...are you the artist behind them...?

[kyektulu]

The red dragon has been a personal favorite of mine for years it is just how I envision a dragon to look like. I even did a HUGE painting of it on my old flat wall! When I moved an old man got my old flat, appaently it took him 5 layers of paint to paint over it... oops!
The artist is Paul Jauques.

[Tim Bond]

cool, but, too bad.

hope you got a picture of it before it got painted over.

most who do good art have all lost artwork at some time and
can feel for you and know what that must feel like.
alot of people with an interest in art also read - who knew.

[kyektulu]

Thanks Tim, Luckily I do have a photo or two with my pic on... I have learnt from my mistake, now I paint on canvas board!

I would REALLY love to put up some of my artwork on here but I still dont know how to make the pictures small enough.. I thought that by just making the image size smaller it would be able to be attached but that hasnt worked....

I will learn how to use photo shop, fireworks and paint shop pro 9 one day!

[Tim Bond]

well even if u lost one peice of work on one wall - i don't think i would really call it a mistake. many greats paint on walls. some cool paintings on the walls of some resturants and caffe's all look cool and even if vulnerable to interior re-design - could never be called a real mistake - just daring, art that carries a little risk with regards to rent controls and change of tenets.

if you get another opportunity to do cool work on a wall - interior or exterior don't let one loss stop you - people always remember the resturant wall painting a few years back.

even if its gone.

glad you got pictures - i don't think you made any mistakes.

[An8el]

Talk about temporary art - I designed my best dragon for a backdrop on a stage production; about fifteen feet long dragon! Have a pic somewhere, but it's not digital, and it's in storage.

So it goes... My solution is to just make another one - I save the pattern or the original art that I enlarged.

[Teir]

Originally Posted by kyektulu

Thanks Tim, Luckily I do have a photo or two with my pic on... I have learnt from my mistake, now I paint on canvas board!

I would REALLY love to put up some of my artwork on here but I still dont know how to make the pictures small enough.. I thought that by just making the image size smaller it would be able to be attached but that hasnt worked....

I will learn how to use photo shop, fireworks and paint shop pro 9 one day!

if in photoshop, and decreasing the size is not sufficient enough to lower the memory enough to allow you to post, change the format. Jpeg images require less memory then psp files. When youve finished resizing, and go to save, just select a jpeg as the file type. *shrug* worked in my case

[An8el]

I use a tiny free program on windows called "irfanview." It's really simple and does all of the image manipulating that I need to make photos tiny, etc. for posting on my website. So you don't have to get huge, expensive programs to do what you need...not to discourage you from learning them "one day."

[Teir]

you dont have to pay for those programs at all if your neighbour
is an I.T guy

[Rosemary]

Just thought I would 'post' these sites for you. Both artists do very nice Fantasy art, some of which I was very impressed with.

http://socar.epilogue.net/

http://www.MCarnaham.com

[Alicia]

Thanx for the links, Rosemary! I especially liked "Green Sky" and "Hare Thing" from the first one. Although...there was that one in the second link...

[Rosemary]

Glad you enjoyed it Alicia. There are so many sites like these, and most of them apppear to have very good quality artists. One could spend hours just browsing through each site, fighting the urge to purchase!

I love to see how each artists portrays a particular subject matter in so many ways. Using various mediums as well gives the final effect a different aspect.

[Alicia]

Too true...too true!!!