What a cutie! I love the blue shades in his scales. Caning is so darn hard! I hope you put in a side picture some time so I can see his wings better!

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Thanx for all the nice comments on my fire dragon!

As for the cane I used to make the dragon -- it's the same as the one I used to make the fishies, and it is really, really simple to make. I'm lousy with canes, too, but this one comes out like magic every time. If you have a clay extruder, I can give you the instructions! (And if you don't know what a clay extruder is, I can give you info on that, too.

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I know where to get a clay extruder, but I don't have one currently. I don't know how many times I've tried to make a cane by hand (and by hand I mean by hand and a pasta machine), and they've all come out looking ugly. I've got a piece up on VCL of a dragon I made with a particularly ugly cane: [link]

He's not very visible as I had to try to scan him on my old flatbed; I didn't have a digicam back then. Needless to say, I just think I'm going to avoid caning altogether from now on. XD

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Looks okay to me! Say, how do you "link" a photo within a message like that? It sure would be useful for me to know how to do that once I start setting up tutorials, so I can have pictures of the steps. Or has everything changed so much around here that you don't know how it works any more?

As for the dragon cane I used -- forget everything you think you know about canes -- this one is really, really REALLY easy! The extruder does 90% of the work. I'll do a tutorial when I can ...

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All we need to do to acheive world peace is to give everyone a small oven and ten pounds of polymer clay. Once everyone starts creating with clay, they won't have TIME to bother with killing each other.

Well, you can do one of two things. If you just want the URL to show (that meaningless drivel you have to type in to get somewhere here on the net), just type it in as it is and I think DeviantArt automatically makes it a link. Id est, if I wanted to link to your page, I'd just type [link] ... that should be automatically made to a link.

If you want to link to just the picture and not a page like DA displaying the picture, you'll have to sign up with something like Photobucket ([link]) which gives direct links to pictures. It even has a box with the URL to the picture under the picture when you upload it, so it's easy copy-and-paste to make it show up in DA!

On the other hand, if you want the picture to actually show up in a post, you have to use HTML tags. Again, the picture needs to be on a picture host like Photobucket, and you should have the link handy. From there, it's simple tags... (img src="http://the url to your image.com"), but replacing the parenthesis () with arrows <>. Basically you're telling the 'net that the "source" (src) for your "image" (img) is at such-and-such an address!

I certainly hope I explained that well enough.

And I can't wait to see what tutorials you come up with!

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And suddenly she was... OPEN FOR COMMISSION!

I love dragons! Nicely done.

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Noooooooo its my cookie...here you are

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Muhahahahaha!

S'okay ... dwagons wike hugs, too!

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Then here a hug

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awww, you is NICE!

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