I tried painting/drawing in Gimp but since I never could make anything decent other than electronic schematics,I gave up.
I have started to make the computer do it for me.
Here's what I came up with:
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This was made with mandelbulber-1.15.
I originally started with this one:
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I turned it 90 degree's clockwise and after saving it I started playing with the controls which resulted in the first one.
These fractals are rendered according to what's in a .fract text file that you feed it.
There's docs on mandelbulber but so far I haven't found any howto about syntax etc for writing your own.
Gerard.