Fractured.Logic

Haha. Although you meant that as a joke, you are right :angel: Now, I did not have that joke in mind, of course. The story behind the drawing is:It wasn't until I was nearly finished with the top one that I decided its midsection, shoulders and hips looked more like a male dragon... and those were among the things I altered when I played around with the female dragon. I had originally intended to follow the symbolic pattern of two gender-inspecific dragons chasing each other's tails... but after the sketch started to take on more personality, I decided to make it a capture of sibling dragons instead.On a sidenote, I have recently discovered that I forgot to interweave two other arms of the celtic knotwork into the bigger picture. So I will be posting the changes once I have time to work on that. After that is finished, I will submit the linework to my torturous CGI techniques. So keep in touch.

It's just the linework, for now, but I had to share it with you folks. If you look, very carefully, there are slight differences between the dragons... enough to subtly differentiate gender. Copypasting a perfectly symmetrical linework would have been way too easy Now, for this one, this is going to be one of my very special "babies". So if you want to work with it, you have to ask me for permission first. I'm going to be very particular about this piece, since the design is fully unique to my warped little self :angel:

So, I had a bit of a graphic field day last night. I couldn't sleep, so I just kept poking at things. What resulted was some crazy linework (which I will post in a separate topic), and 9 new variations of my abstract CGI Let me know what you think!

I would still like to hear back from my fellow Trappers, if they care to lend their input, criticism, or otherwise. In the meanwhile, I have decided that I ought to provide some definitions for some of the less-known vocabulary I've used in my poem. Due to restrictions on how many links a post may contain (at least, so it would seem), I am going to copy/paste definitions in this post. Please check back as I edit this, thanks! Corporeal - Ambivalence - Tempestuous - Excrete - Osculum - Nether - Exponential - Formaldehyde - Tentative - Fledgling - Expound - Magnificent - Grotesque - Conflagration - Proverbial - Cumulative - Rampant - Indiscretion - Noxious - Effulgence - Sulfuric - Dolour - Abhorrence - Pinioning - Enigma - Concubine - Consummate - Hypocrisy - Lubricious - Contradictory - Propagating - Unremitting - Inevitable - Massacre - Acumen - Amass - Figurative - Quaver - Sonorous - Ire - Nescient - Egocentric - Forebodes - Ominous - Mue - Eschew - Pander - Sagacity - Nascence - Athenaeum - Garner - Obfuscate - Acquisition - Laic - Decrepit - Tome - Resuscitate - Notion - Exemplify - Vitality - Primordial - Inundate - Cadaver - Prone - Indiscrete - Scalpel - Elated - Bestow - Pry - reference : Kaolin reference : green ware reference : Citizen Kane reference : Imbolc's reference : Br?d reference : Sirona

... The sprites in your screenshots (as well as effects and a fair amount of other graphics) are identical to the ones from Ragnarok Online (which I admittedly played, once upon a time, before it went P2P). Is this someone's alternate-server of Ragnarok? Last I ever knew, alternate-servers of Ragnarok (and various other games) aren't exactly legal... (So would there be repercussions for advertising it on the Trap?) Supposing that, despite the odds, this is not an alternate-server. Explain how it is supposed to be different from Ragnarok Online... (what I see doesn't convince me, in the slightest, that it is). How did the person(s) who maintain(s) this game get ahold of the same graphics engine, and did they legally acquire it? I'm sure there is something else I should ask and am forgetting. Anyone else want to lend their input on this one?

To date, my favorite Linux OS is my first (who doesn't love their first of anything, right? :angel:)Redhat 9 (which has since evolved into Fedora) holds a very dear, permanent space in my heart. I even proudly stuck a sticker on my car and it literally weathered the odds from one end of the country to the other, while I got the "traveling bug" out of my system (this was before I had my daughter, of course). Unfortunately, the last time I had my car maintenanced, all of my old stickers were cleaned off as well. But it wasn't very recognizeable by then, anyway!

Library humor is never bad, Abby! Another author that I would recommend looking into (she's not one of my absolute favorites, but she is a fairly decent author nonetheless): Kristen Britain And I also hunted down the information on Juliet Marillier (whose name I am never able to remember, for some reason). She is the author of a historical/Celtic-lore fantasy series starting with the book Daughter of the Forest.

So a friend of mine requested a triquetra drawn with rainbow colors, with the circle drawn through the three loops. She really didn't give me much else to go on, which left a lot of room for play. This is what I came up with. I'm very happy with the end result, and it didn't take me very long to throw together. I did the linework in Illustrator, then exported as a PSD. With the PSD file, I kept the linework on top, set one layer for the rainbow effect, another layer for the shaded-gray circle, and a final layer for the single-tone background. Anyone who likes this image is welcome to download it and save it. The triquetra is an old, well-known symbol, that crosses the boundaries of many cultures, lores and religions. If you would like a copy of the PSD file, or the linework, to play with it yourself, feel free to message me or send me an email. I'd love to also hear some feedback! Thanks, everyone!

*facepalm* I had to share this one because he/she/it's not even trying to mask the blatant invasion of privacy... Let's forget, for the moment, that they obviously don't know who I am... or they wouldn't be calling me "Sir" ... There's a little well of vindictiveness burbling inside me right now that wishes I could get my hands on whichever of the jobhunt sites I've signed up with in the last few months that traded my email to these vultures... *liptwitch*

Don't rush yourself! I'd like to consider myself rather patient :angel: Thanks for the input - I'll save a copy of the image from the PSD file, later, that doesn't have either border or solar flare, so you can compare that. :(I will have to get the files you requested to you later... I'm thinking tomorrow, if everything works out all right. My buddy training shift is going to be from 12:30 to 8pm today - and even the Library is closed by the time I'll be off of work.I look forward to seeing your second draft, whenever you can get it done.Until then, take care and keep in touch.

Darn! The image is broken, so I can't see this "puppet-face" ... *snickerfit* Galexcd : Thanks! I am very proud of her. Pottsville is something that I greatly enjoy being a part of, and I hope that my daughter will also treasure it as she gets older and understands more about it. As things are, right now, it's one of the biggest "back yards" that a child could ever have, and she has almost-limitless free reign of it. My mother and I promised each other that, between the two of us (and with the help of a large and often-crazy family, and all of our friends), that she would have the opportunity to experience all the things we ever wished we could.