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A gryphon silhouetted against the sky, made for a friend's livejournal. (Though I used a different background for hers.)

The gryphon silhouette was made by smushing a hawk and snow leopard together, then painting in eartufts. I had to move the hawk's legs forward on its body, and the snow leopard legs were positioned wrong, so I pulled legs off a jaguar and stuck them on the snowpard's haunches. But then the paws were positioned wrong, so I had to chop the paws off and re-angle them.

The end result, before I blacked it all out, looked rather funny. It's in my scraps; the full picture is here .

For the silhouette, I just selected the entire gryphon and replaced it with black on a new layer. Then I used an eraser on the feathers at a low-ish opacity; I think 40% or something, with higher opacity the farther out the feathers went. It was fun. The sky was thrown together. I used lighting effects, layer effects, cloud renders, smudging, varying shades of gray for clouds, and a lot more smudging and blurring until it looked sort-of right. One of these days I'm going to learn how to make decent clouds.

Description
A gryphon silhouetted against the sky, made for a friend's livejournal. (Though I used a different background for hers.)

The gryphon silhouette was made by smushing a hawk and snow leopard together, then painting in eartufts. I had to move the hawk's legs forward on its body, and the snow leopard legs were positioned wrong, so I pulled legs off a jaguar and stuck them on the snowpard's haunches. But then the paws were positioned wrong, so I had to chop the paws off and re-angle them.

The end result, before I blacked it all out, looked rather funny. It's in my scraps; the full picture is here .

For the silhouette, I just selected the entire gryphon and replaced it with black on a new layer. Then I used an eraser on the feathers at a low-ish opacity; I think 40% or something, with higher opacity the farther out the feathers went. It was fun. The sky was thrown together. I used lighting effects, layer effects, cloud renders, smudging, varying shades of gray for clouds, and a lot more smudging and blurring until it looked sort-of right. One of these days I'm going to learn how to make decent clouds.