2007-04-04 [DarkJenni]: oh i see trunk dragons. lmoa. like an elephant and dragon mixed, cool. [Yncke]

2007-04-04 [Sunrose]: =)

2007-04-04 [Yncke]: Thanks for the correction, [Sunrose]!

2007-04-04 [Sunrose]: You're welcome ^^
That one always confused me until I learned this trick to remember: vergrotende trap --> than :P
(if you don't speak Dutch, this trick won't make sense to you ;)

2007-04-04 [Yncke]: That's a nice trick. :) My problem's not that I don't know the difference between the two, though, it's that I always forget to think about which one to use, and I don't see the mistake when I reread the sentence, like I do for dt errors or something... :s

2007-04-04 [Sunrose]: In that case I would trade with you :P

2007-04-04 [Yncke]: Well, on a place like Elftown your skill's more useful than mine. ;P

2007-04-04 [Sunrose]: Yes, but I need your skill outside Elftown more often :P

2007-04-05 [Hedda]: Wonderful, [Yncke]!

But it needs to be more careful with its tail!

2007-04-05 [Yncke]: Thank you. :)

Magical burn repelling spell, five day warranty. Trunk dragons get them at a discount thanks to the family pack offers. ;)

2007-04-06 [Stephen]: [JajaJulie] - Your entry is very cute! :D

2007-04-06 [JajaJulie]: Thank you. ^^

2007-04-06 [Paul Doyle]: I'm loving these entries. I have two ideas in mind---one off color but still "safe for work", and another that's just plain goofy.

2007-04-09 [Shainn]: [Yncke]'s entry is pretty nice :)
and [Talkris] yours is also wonderful! (please colour that one!)

2007-04-09 [Talkris]: I'm working on colors now. I'm deciding patterns and such. Wait... They have to be colored? I must've missed that on the page, sorry.

2007-04-09 [Rat Hacker]: Hey it looks like ET LOL! Funny.. 

2007-04-09 [Stephen]: You don't have to color them. :-)

2007-04-09 [Stephen]: Wow - I love all the new entries. I like the one breathing fire, and Talkris, your dragon looks fierce. Machineman, I like the double trunks. Great work, all.

2007-04-11 [Stephen]: Awh, the fat green one is cute. :D

2007-04-13 [Black Raven]: Thankie^^

2007-04-17 [~The Dreamer Ilaes~]: Really like both Talkris and Ynckle's entries, and Mangledkitty's one is just to cute to miss. Although stranger looking is TheMhasspoken's picture, the art work is very nice, and different also.

2007-04-27 [Nadie importante]: ow darn..i had the same sort of idea as mislucky already on paper...but if i posted it now it would mean i stole it or something right?

2007-04-27 [Sunrose]: You can make your own version.. :)

2007-04-27 [Nadie importante]: danjewel^^

2007-04-28 [Nadie importante]: wee! its up:D

2007-04-28 [Sunrose]: Wow nice work Baty! ^^

2007-04-28 [Nadie importante]: Thank you Sunrose! havent i improved since the last MS Paint one, hehe!

2007-04-28 [Sunrose]: I didn't see that I think, but I didn't know you were so good already! :D

2007-04-29 [Nadie importante]: aaw *blushes* thanks! ill try to improve it when i can:)

2007-04-29 [Stephen]: I agree with [Sunrose], it looks very nice [Nadie importante]! :D

2007-04-29 [Nadie importante]: thank you very much enlightened magi^^

2007-05-04 [Nadie importante]: Hey [Viral_Tide] dont you have a bigger version of your drawing?

2007-05-04 [Sunrose]: You can see the bigger version now :)

2007-05-04 [Viral_Tide]: I really don't know what I am doing this is my first competition. So bare with me for I am learning.

2007-05-04 [Stephen]: It looks good, [Viral_Tide]! ^^

2007-05-07 [Tyrana]: Wooooo, MS Paint!

2007-05-09 [Shainn]: mhh... it's gonna be hard to choose, very nice entries... :)

2007-05-11 [SeLoCeS]: hi guys sorry my entry is so big but i dont know how to make smaller.if someone can chaange it please do so or tell me how it is done Cheers

2007-05-11 [Sunrose]: [SeLoCeS]: Your entry has been removed, please try and make a better scan of your image :/

2007-05-11 [Nadie importante]: [Artsieladie] your entry is amazing! beautiful job!

2007-05-11 [Artsieladie]: *blushes & grins* Thanks! I was afraid I wouldn't get it finished in time. I've been working on it for over 2 weeks. I kept thinking of more to do with it, but finally I said, "Enough already!" lol I'm not that experienced with creating dragons, but I'm learning, little by little.  :D

2007-05-11 [Nadie importante]: Well its just really beautiful! what program did you use, i mean what do you do to have so much texture?! its really amazing! im still amature^^'

2007-05-11 [Artsieladie]: I do most of my computer art with Adobe Photoshop. It's an expensive program, but I love it. For the egg, I used an AP brush, dodged & burned 'til I was happy w/ it. The glow is achieved through "layer style". The basic trees I made & then used another AP (leaf) brush. I like colors blended, smoothed, together, so I use the smudge & blur tools a lot at varying opacities. One of the greatest features I love about AP is the "layers' ability". This particular image has probably 50 some unmerged layers & many layers were merged. I made the dragons first, in a separate image & that has nearly 100 layers plus several merged layers. Other tools I use a lot are lightness/contrast, hue/saturation, auto contrast & several others. Do you have Photoshop? I'd be happy to help you with it, if I can & if you have questions about it. :D I started using AP almost 2 years ago. I found the best way to learn the program is to play around with it a lot. The other program I use quite a bit is Jasc Paint Shop Pro, although it is now a part of Corel. :)

2007-05-11 [Black Raven]: Wow!![Artsieladie]wonderfull entry! :)

2007-05-11 [Nadie importante]: I have photoshop and i have worked with corel at school...but gosh...it sounds like a whooole load of work what you did:P!

2007-05-11 [Artsieladie]: Thank you, [Black Raven]! *smiles* Eh, maybe, [Nadie importante], but it's enjoyable work. Besides which, I'm a fanatic with perfection. It has to be as perfect as I can make it. Anything worth doing is worth giving one's best. I always keep in mind the end result. :D It's great you have Photoshop! I think you'll find the more you use it, the more you will like it, b/c you will continue to discover its many attributes. :D I think [Talkris] did a fantastic drawing. I'd love to see it in color. :) However, I'm totally in love with yours, [Black Raven], & yours, [JajaJulie]! *squeezes them* [Nadie importante], it looks like you're getting the concepts well. You have some shadowing in your image & shadowing is what gives an image depth.  :D

2007-05-11 [Nadie importante]: Yeah i do start discovering more things and finding it pleasent but i take a long time:S and this was my first photoshop...and it looks cartoonish enough to not look bad:P but i never was very good with shading and shadows...i just never felt it...I dunno...i try, but its hard:P but one day ill make uber pics:P(i hope)

2007-05-11 [Artsieladie]: You will! *hugs* It takes time & practice. I have spent mega, mega hours, #1 - learning how to use/maintain a pc & #2 - learning how to use the graphic programs & I'm still discovering little tricks & such. :D

2007-05-12 [Paul Doyle]: Why is mine sort of sick? Because yes, I am sick . . . with a stomach bug @_o. If time and grace allows, the colored version will be posted as well. And if there are and MYSTies out there, just remember that line from Pod People . . .

2007-05-12 [Artsieladie]: You have a little less than 8 hours to post a colored version. I don't think it looks sick. It is different from the others, but typical of Paul! It's interesting to look at & take in.

2007-05-12 [Paul Doyle]: Trunky will be mulberry! xD I'm laying down in bed and coloring his wrinkly elephant-like hide until I fall asleep . . and then get up to get ready for work in a few hours! Absurdity is fun in less-than-ideal situations.

2007-05-12 [Talkris]: I finished the colored one just in time. Heh

2007-05-12 [Nadie importante]: I want to see a coloured version of Mekafesh's one! its so adorable!

2007-05-12 [Paul Doyle]: Rush job on my coloring . . . now back to bed with me (I'm home sick from work!)

2007-05-13 [Stephen]: Wow... wonderful, Artsie! :D

2007-05-13 [Artsieladie]: Nice, [Talkris]! Paul, with less than 5 minutes to spare, but you made it! *high five* Thanks, Stephen! I told you I was going to try & enter this one. :D

2007-05-13 [Paul Doyle]: Thanks, Artsie. I felt bad about getting physically sick and having to call out from work, but between some extended naps I was able to get the coloring done, as rushed as it was and in spite of my hands being shaky from weakness and fatigue (I was kept up by insomnia brought on by upset stomach, even though I took antacids and Pepto).

2007-05-13 [Paul Doyle]: Everyone, these are bunch of awesome entries. I suggest (with [Hedda]'s blessing, of course, since he came up with the Trunk Dragon idea!) that we create a fun Elftown-only wiki where we can do more trunk-related stuff (expanding the idea to included poetry, prose and small-scale RPG'ing, for example). Then perhaps those of us who are on Elfwood or DeviantArt (or both) could publish their stuff at roughly the same time, with links advertising the proposed wiki in particular, but also Elftown in general? Just a thought.

2007-05-13 [Nadie importante]: you certainly liked the trunk idea thing...maybe too much8-)

2007-05-13 [Paul Doyle]: *chuckle* I tend to agree. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ3tgzjBUiI

2007-05-14 [NOOOPE]: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE! 3000! BWOOOOOW!! *flips out with joy*

2007-05-14 [Paul Doyle]: Yes!!!! Unfortunately that Pod People clip doesn't have the "Trumpy, you can do stupid things!" line. I think that comes a bit later when the evil Trumpy lookalike starts killing off the crappy "rock" band, one dork at a time.

2007-05-14 [NOOOPE]: Wowsa. I needa download that show. And FAST.

And dang that's one of the old ones! I like the female villian with the planet of the apes side kick and the pale brain guy in the castle more than I liked the scientist.

I wonder just how many episodes youtube has.... herms....

2007-05-14 [Paul Doyle]: I was never big on Pearl. Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank were the best Mads, I thought, and I like Joel better than Mike, although Mike was the head writer on the show.

2007-05-14 [Cia_mar]: great vid Paul! i love MST3K!!!!!! i have not seen that one... too funny

and Artsie! love the pic... awesomeness!

2007-05-14 [Artsieladie]: Thank you, [Cia_mar]! :D

2007-05-16 [xido]: holy wow

2007-05-17 [Nadie importante]: gosh...this has taken a while, when will the poll be up?

2007-05-17 [Sunrose]: The contest only closed 5 days ago, expect to wait a while more.

2007-05-26 [Nadie importante]: oh..my entry didnt get in the top ten..darn, but congratulations to the ten finalists!!

2007-05-26 [Mekashef]: I would like to thank the jury for choosing my piece as a finalist.
Congratulations to all the participants!

2007-06-11 [Artsieladie]: First, I want to thank the Council for selecting my piece to be among those featured in the Mainstreet poll, as well, it being their choice. (Thank you [Sunrose] for adding this mention of on Mainstreet! :D) I want to thank all those that voted for my art piece in the poll. To be quite honest & b/c I'm a realistic artist, I have been seriously contemplating that my art doesn't really fit here on Elftown, b/c this a community of fantasy & science fiction, not that I don't love it here for heaven knows I do. However, I must say, the citizens of & the Council of Elftown have forced me to rethink my thinking. This contest was going to be my last that I was going to enter. It's almost as though everyone knew what I was thinking. So, w/o dragging this comment out too much, I again say, a deep & heartfelt thank you to all! God Bless & *gigantic huggles* 

2008-01-19 [Hedda]: Awww! These are so cute!

I like the green fat one!

2008-01-20 [Black Raven]: heee!!:D