coffee was the only drug involved.....
i made a selection of the snake, altered it with too heavy of a hand in liquify, copied that twice and using my transform tool moved and flipped the other two now dragon-snakes til i was happy...between them i offered up a couple of layers of shadows so they didn't look just pasted on top of each other.....the snakes were tweaked as one image with usm, contrast, and a little bit of plastic wrap.....
i used an old smoke image of mine for the background, but i did make a few copies of it, moved them around, erased some of the overlapping portions until, once again, my coffee addled brain was happy....
to unify the color of the snakes and my background, i placed a solid color adjustment layer of a pinkish-purple over the whole thing....
this was fun.....strange, but fun....
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