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purpledoggy wrote:

Is it just me or do the bvp laps need more violet? They just don’t look like they have that much on them.

If you’re looking at what I’m looking at, the pictures are actually identical — they’ve got the BEP image up for both, which definitely lacks violet! I was really disappointed by the lack of purple, too, till I noticed that they weren’t just close, they were exactly the same! 🙂

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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Now they’re both up and out of stock, but each listing has the same picture, which is the BEP. (I’m so confused!)

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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I use acrylics, myself. I’ve never handled an airbrush, and even if I could afford one I’d want to try it out on several cheap throwaway objects before I tried doing someting as small, complicated, and (relatively) expensive as a Windstone.

I don’t “paint good on paper” (I’m not sure if you mean, do I also paint on 2D surfaces, or do I draw out the pattern for the PYO on paper, but either way the answer is no.) 🙂

I tend to think up a basic idea, along the lines of “okay, I want a blue dragon with some interference on his large scales and gold accents” and then sit down and start. Once I’ve got the base coat on and filled in some accents, I stare at him a bit and realize “he needs more gold — maybe if I brush a little on those big round scales…” Once I’ve done that, I stare again and think that the int erference isn’t standing out enough, so maybe if I splashed a little black in the center of the scales…

And basically that’s how I came up with the first PYO dragon I did (pictures here: http://www.windstoneeditions.com/galleries/index.php?cat=10045).

I’ve had a few art classes, but they were basic High School Art, no 3D painting involved. 🙂 So all my knowledge of shading is pretty much self-taught. I started out painting model horses (and boy, if you want to talk about “blobs of paint” your should’ve seen my first couple efforts), so I’ve had a little practice — but that was on relatively flat, broad surfaces, with a completely different texture and absorbency.

If you want to practice a little, most craft stores sell cheap unpainted ceramic figurines — might be a good way to get “practice critters” and mess around with colors and shading and so on, if you’ve never picked up a brush before.

tatt2dcowgrl wrote:

Are most of you guys painting the pyo’s good on paper? And are most of you using airbrushes or acrylics or..?

I’m so afraid I’m just going to end up with a glob of paint since I don’t really know how to shade with paint or anything like that really.

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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Pictures are up in my gallery: http://www.windstoneeditions.com/galleries/index.php?cat=10045

He’s a gift for a friend, who wanted a PYO painted like a Silver dragon from AD&D — they start out blue-gray and slowly mature to solid silver.

The PYO’s pretty small, so I wanted him to look like he was just starting to get his true metallic color in; he’s all different shades of silver and gray, with touches of blue interference and silver leafing.

This was definitely the *hardest* PYO I’ve done so far — the subtle shading, the leafing, and the specific pattern all gave me fits. 🙂 I was sure, around April, that I’d *never* get him finished! But eventually I did, and he’s gone off to his new home now.

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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I think it’s just the picture — the accents on her face look gold, as does the interference there.

Phoenix wrote:

Do the white coiled mothers have gold or siver highlights?
Do you think this is just a bad picture?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=160238744647&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=006

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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emerald212 wrote:

My Poads are named with names beginning with G: Georgi, Gina, Ginger

Any particular reason you chose G?

And ooh, I like “Helios”! 🙂 I have a couple of Greek/Greekish names picked out for future dragons, myself. 🙂

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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Old enough to know better…

And young enough not to care! 🙂

Okay, okay, I’m 25. I’ll be 26 in June of this year.

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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Greater Basilisk wrote:

I give everything else names and nicks though
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and a title for my motorcycle.

Hee! I used to name my bicycles as a kid. 🙂

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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I have always meant to name my Windstones, but never seem to get around to it, and always feel uninspired when I do try to come up with names.

So far, only my BVP Old Warrior has a name — he’s Valkyrior, because of this quote from Bullfinch’s Mythology: The Valkyrior are warlike virgins, mounted upon horses and armed with helmets and spears. /…/ When they ride forth on their errand, their armour sheds a strange flickering light, which flashes up over the northern skies, making what men call the ‘aurora borealis’.” When I posted his picture, someone said his wings looked like the aurora, so when I saw that quote it was just perfect! (Though, apparently, Bullfinch was making it up.)

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EDIT: Oops, I totally forgot about my Orientals! My three peacock Orientals do have names, but the BVP OW is the only Western dragon who has been named so far. My Orientals are: Meiji (“bright rule”), Taishou (“great righteousness”), and Heisei (“peace growing”).
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What are your dragons’s names, and how did you come up with them? (Other critters with names are welcomed, too.)

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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purplecat wrote:

lol…nah, I dont like the rainbows, it gives me color overload. 😆 😆 I never thought the rainbow color on him would be that popular. lol.

It just proves (again) that the OW can make ANY color look good! 🙂

(I’m not a Rainbow fan, either… though I will be buying one of those Laps! Must have more Laps!)

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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I searched everywhere, even on Google! And I cannot find any link to the page showing the different eye and jewel colors for PYOs.

Could’ve sworn I had it bookmarked, but it’s not there either!

Where is it? (And is it just me, or would a link to it be VERY USEFUL on the Store’s PYO page?!)

Thank you!

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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tfsculptures wrote:

thanks GB and company, as always! 😀
i was planning on ebaying him, but geez i’m kinda attached to him since i based him after my favorite toy dragon.

Ow, WOW! You should totally NOT ebay him…

…Until I can afford him. 🙂

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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I tried to see the “Beagle Griffin” picture, but what comes up is one of the Nyalah griffins.

Is that correct, or has something gone amiss with the link?

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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Wyvern wrote:

The Copper dragon will be completely leafed in copper then highlighted in a metallic green.

Oooh, please post pictures of this guy when he’s done!

And, er, are you going to sell him when he’s finished? 🙂 I am a sucker for all things copper, and if the turns out as interesting as he sounds, well. 🙂

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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tatt2dcowgrl wrote:

I don’t understand how they can even make those and say they’re ‘real photos’ and such that’s not illegal? I can’t believe some people actually do believe the things they say too lol

Sure it’s a real photo!

In fact, it’s probably several real photos! (All at once! Hurrah for Photoshop…)

Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).

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