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Published: 2005-11-22 08:24:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 5047; Favourites: 170; Downloads: 2036
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Meet Shaft. Shaft loves rain.Painted in PS, prints available. Enjoy.
"Shaft" Copyright Β© 2005 Tracy Trowbridge "Machine-Guts"
Except for wallpaper usage, Do not alter, copy, redistribute, etc. this art/design without express permission from me, the artist.
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Hehehe he looks like a sneaky dragon. 
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Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
SHAFT!
Ya damn right!
Who is the man that would risk his neck
For his brother man?
SHAFT!
Can you dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about?
SHAFT!
Right On!
They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft.
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!
He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
JOHN SHAFT!
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Thatβs awesome, where did you learn how to paint in Photoshop like that?
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grinning like a mofo and rainy times for that green dragon
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Ooooh, purdy glow. 8D I hope =dizturbed will enjoy it. :D I love the rain to itty bits, too. <3
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i like it the colors and the creature that it is its so awsome looking im makeing it a
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Wonderful work!!!! Its good to see you again!!!
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yay your back! and this is great, i love the green..ness
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That's fricken amazing. The effects of the rain and the glow, the BG, and such all add to the mysterious mood that I'm feeling from this. Very nice.
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Yet another incredible dragon pic. You truly have a gift for these.
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veautiful green colours, and such a beautiful dragon! I'm so jealous at you!!
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Awesome! Yay for the green radioactive swampy ghost dragon!
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Ok, I see a bunch of stuff in this image that I'm sure you could improve drastically with a bit of thought. I'm not going to try and hurt your feelings here, just list some stuff I KNOW many people find useful, ok?
/end disclaimer
I can't help but notice that the super-glossy/glowing edges style of rendering is an ineffective way to try and describe actual forms, and looks really odd when put besides muted, 'calm' objects like the trees.
The shiny style is nice in a semi-abstract kinda way, on 2D stylised images, but falls short if you're going for anything more than that (i.e figurative and illustrative).
The colours are kinda unattractive IMHO - any damp, earthy, foresty kinda mood is killed by the over-saturated green and lack of colour range. Colour theory helps with this, as does studing real scenes, photos etc. If you have a clear photo of a scene, you can learn how the colours work through colourpicking and messing around in PS.
I think Craig Mullins ([link] ) is very good at describing mood through colour, especially damp rainy forests (eg [link] )
Also the 3 elements (dragon, trees, rain) are presented as very seperate, so the picture comes across as pieced-together, or even like a PS collage. One thing I've noticed that can hold an image together is texture, not some crappy overlayed photo texture (as seen in gothy photomanips everywhere) but proper painted texture. Reference is great for this (eg a photo of a forest floor).
When images are as smooth and digital-looking as this, there's simply not enough to attract and interest the eye and the image seems very simple and plain. Also textures, like every other element mentioned, help set a scene and a mood. Don't neglect them!
If you want to learn to make great compositions, I'd suggest studying traditional compositions, old masters have amazing stuff (try www.artrenewal.org) and fantasy artists like brom and frazetta might give some inspiration, too.
Last thing, if you have a certain character and intend to use him-her in multiple images, an awesome trick to use is to make a model, be it real (outta sculpy, clay, paper mache, whatever) or in a 3D progam if you know how to use one, and draw a bunch of studies from this model to get a really good understanding of him/her from different angles and stuff. Also, making the model forces you to really think about the character's 'look', so it's a part of the design process too (This dragon looks very vaguely thought out, like you haven't thought about his/her design much beyond the dragony profile shape and the colour.)
And when you wanna do a proper picture of them you can stick the model in certain lighting and use it for reference.
Excuse the novel-sized comment
Have a great day
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Heheh, this is absinthe inspired. If you knew the feeling, you'd understand the picture. ^^
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I admire your dragon art so much! I like the look on the dragon's face. He looks mischevious.
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I love the crazed grin and the beautiful green glow. Amazing work as usual!
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Oh man thats so cool. I love the glowy seethrough quality. +fav it is
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very tasteful... I LIKE IT! 
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awesome drawing,I like the green,awesome color
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Wonderful,
I lack the English vacabulary of adjectives to describe what I want to, unless you speak German...I'm ESOL.
So I'll leave it at that, in case I don't end up doing justice to it.
Fantastic colouring, imminent
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Sweet picture ^^, and so very kind of you to dedicate it to her. I'm sure she loves it muchly.
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Good to have you back, interesting name for a dragon... very nicely done too. The green definately gives it attitude.
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Horray! I've missed seeing your arts here.
Very eerie piece, I'm loving the green.
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WELCOME BACK! heres a welcome hug
and this is a fantastic peice. i love how he looks all transparenty. and lime green=yum
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I absolutely love your rain pictures. With no other people's rain art do I get the sense of actually being in the rain, just listening to it.. and getting drenched lol. I love it XD
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Preeetty dwagon! Love the green and how he seems to just glow. Excellent work!
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dude hes like a ghost ^.=.^ pretty awsome GREEN
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very moody, especially for having been laughing at an Orb song. good to see new stuff from you
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great pic and welcome back, i missed your amazing dragons. this one is just as good as the rest, if not better. :applause: 
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Wow! I love the glowy green detail and the rain effect!
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this is totally awesome. I love it 
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a beautiful piece 
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oooooo...shiny dragon!...I did a neonish green dragon with black background a while ago xD...but yours came out WAY better xD! its really nice ^^
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