before and after : [link]

model
rock bird and moonbrushes, nebula and treebrushes
sky ( see the little tutorial [link] )
seadragon flowers, made in Daz3D
background sea: made in vue d'esprit
hair and eyes repainted in photoshop and psp

I think almost everybody knows the movie ' The craft' where 4 girls evoke the 4 watchtowers to gain supernatural powers. ( not really expecting to get them )

The Watchtowers are evocational symbols of spiritual beings known as the Watchers . Each Watchtower is associated with one of the four quarters of north, east, south and west. In some traditions the Watchtowers are associated with the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water. They are also each linked to a specific star. The north Watchtower is Fomalhaut, the east is Aldebaran, Regulus marks the south, and Antares is the west. The Guardians of the Watchtowers are seen as the highest manifestation of spiritual energy within each of the four elemental "spectra" .

air: , elves, stormspirits, sylfen,
earth: gnomes trolls, black fairy's, lepricorns
water: Undines, sirens, and seadragons
fire: farisillen, sjaloren,( female and male fire fairies) salamanders.

Calling these evoke the fifth and final manifestation of spiritual energy: Dragons, sfinx.