Challenge sepia style

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This is from an old vector practice with line art. i then took it into PS from Illustrator and put a pucker on it and some other changes.
Beard Pullers were thought to have been left behind by the Picts--the belief at the time was that it was somehow wrong to represent the body in its true form. So, they came up with other ways--as did the Celts, Norse, and other groups.

so, here is a beard puller from Ireland/Scotland.
Do what you will with it.
And, if anyone is interested in Celtic line art, how to make the letters and shapes, I have tons of books on it. I can scan and post.

[kittykat]

and the beard puller .....

[Carrie]

:shrug:

[Nilly_Chipples]

That's kickass!

[Nilly_Chipples]

my addition...

[sepia]

I like them. the original I did with it was so boring. there is a huge history of art in that region of the world during that period.

[sepia]

This I sketched, scanned, and took into Illustrator.

Image to work with 120 resolution (http://www.imagegator.com/uploads/7ac72280f7.jpg)


This is what I did with it. First I played with some new filters I got, or maybe this is eye candy.

http://www.imagegator.com/uploads/a3c4e1dc77.jpg (http://www.imagegator.com)


Then, I decided to incorporate the Do anything Valentine's Rose here (http://www.unitethecows.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9139)

This is what I did, or actually several things.

http://www.imagegator.com/uploads/0ca2e82406.jpg (http://www.imagegator.com)

http://www.imagegator.com/uploads/6d7f7ffcca.jpg (http://www.imagegator.com)


I'm still not all that happy with them, they look more like seahorses that dragons, but whatever.

Now, what can you guys do?