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Published: 2008-02-27 00:25:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 851; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 1
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Description For a moment a cold wind swept down through the trees, whisked through the massive leaves, bringing some stray snow flakes from far away that soon melted in the magical summer that surrounded the places where Gaeva dwelled. It was not quite as strong as a full breeze, more like the memory of a breeze, as if the wind had travelled far and was about to die out. On its own that gust would not have been noticed. But with it came the faint, but very recognizable reek of dry bones. Bones and blood, the smell of ancient death. Only those with sensitive noses would sense it, but few who had once felt it could forget that smell.

For a brief moment, something passed the sun, its shadow sweeping the land. Squinting against the sun, one could make out a dark shape passing high above, a triangle of huge wings that still was so high up they seemed small against the winter-blue sky. Wherever the Greater Grey was headed, it was not here, for the shape kept eastward in a straight line, a long trail of frozen perspiration from its massive muscles making white lines across the sky behind it.
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From UV, "Taken over" - roleplaying thread.


Quick image (<1 hour), depicting the dragon heading eastward.

The scene and dragon (which you can find in several images in my gallery) is from role playing at [link] . Did this image to illustrate a post.

[from scratch, GIMP 2.4.4]
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ray72285 [2008-03-01 02:08:22 +0000 UTC]

Just sending you a congratulations for being featured in this week's issue of The Dragons of deviantART - [link]

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Lithaladhwen [2008-02-28 16:47:16 +0000 UTC]

The things you can do with GIMP impress me. I recently switched over to Linux, and am now faced with the prospect of learning how to make the best of this program...

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Griatch-art In reply to Lithaladhwen [2008-02-29 21:38:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Cool that you've switched to Linux- You'll have a lot of swearing initially but once you're over the initial threshold and ΔΊearned how to think "The Linux way", you'll never want to go back.
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Lithaladhwen In reply to Griatch-art [2008-03-01 03:14:19 +0000 UTC]

My main beef is that support documents for Linux seem to be written with people in mind who don't need support documents for Linux. S'kind of where I'm stuck right now. As long as I don't need Linux to do anything beyond perform basic functions with utter perfection, I'm fine. But once I need to change something the sharks start circling. @_@

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Griatch-art In reply to Lithaladhwen [2008-03-01 06:41:52 +0000 UTC]

While I know what you mean, this is not as true as it was only a few years back though. Systems like Ubuntu is built to be more newbie-friendly and "hide" some less often needed functionality from the user behind flashy graphical interfaces. This is both good and bad. Good because it lowers the threshold somewhat by mimicking Windows a bit (Windows does this to such an extent that the user don't need to know anything about the underlying system, and is not supposed to). The bad is that if something goes wrong you are lost and left to the graphics interface design's whims.

The main thing with using Linux is that you need to learn how to use the command line shell. The graphical interface and icons in all honour -- they are good for some things, but not all. Once you understand the very powerful Linux terminal you'll find it's 2-3 times faster to do most operations in there than to use icons and menues. It's a different way of thinking from Windows, but it will save you many headaches.

There are excellent Ubuntu-specific books out there for newbies if you're willing to pay for them. I'm sure you can find free open-source versions too. Also remember that Ubuntu is just a version of Debian, so almost all tools and descriptions are very similar (Debian uses apt-get, Ubuntu has a graphical interface to this called SynaΓ₯tic or something like that, but it's essentially the same thing).
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Lithaladhwen In reply to Griatch-art [2008-03-05 19:26:17 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I might have to invest in one of those.

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reynante [2008-02-27 02:29:52 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic concept indeed! I suggest you try adding just a faint color to the leaves but still giving it a silhouette effect. wow this is soo fantastic!

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Griatch-art In reply to reynante [2008-02-28 10:00:24 +0000 UTC]

This was a very quick one, glad you likie it! You are right in that there should be some sun passing through the leaves. I'll see if I can get to that. Thanks!
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