great to see u back with an awesome entry

Amazing entry author...well done

Really nicely done! Glad to see your work again.

Can only say an amazing work of art -- the facial expressions are great. the tension and fear in the male and maybe some disdain on the girls face

Great and wonderfull job . . . .

No words for this, absolutely fantastic o.o! You got a lot of talent.

WOW! Awesome work. Great to see your wonderful work again

Very nice work, great scene. There's still some time left, you could put some more detailing in the dragon, it looks a little less detailed than the figures. But a nice drawing anyhow!

Great stuff.Detailed work and so funny scene.Top notch.

WOWOWOWOWOW. nicely done. i love the whole concept.

yup about time Author

amazing as usual. Good to see your work again.

Awesome work... love it

This looks very professional.. If you aren't a 'pro' you should be!! Great job!!

Thank you for all the kind reactions, always appreciated.
@Ressiv: I should have put more detail in the standing creature, have to admit. But I simply didnt have the time that I'd have liked to spend on it. For possible future entries I should start earlier, maybe then it'll be better...
Again, thanks all!

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing scene and very well drawn. Congrats! Great to see you participating again Hope to see more soon.

Congrats Waz fabulous work, love the expressions

Congrats Wazo,great work and well deserved 1st place...

Congrats . . . . Great entry . . . .

Congrats! for your win. Amazing work Henk.

congrats Waz

Congrats.........

I've missed your work. Into my favs it goes!

Oh yeah...the master's back! Great to see you again, Waz! Congrats on another awesomely awesome work!!!

err umm.. that sword says a LOT about over compensating for his male inadequacies... hehehehe

great job author

Really nice one! I see in your sbs you paint in monotone before coloring. I never thought of doing it that way. Learning new things all the time.

My flight is delayed, so now I'm still in the airport... Thanks two of you for your comments. @Slush: Maybe his appearance is inspired by Prince Poppycock (in the natural way lol). @Chad: the way to start a painting is depended on what I like at that moment. But normally to paint something with 3D shape I use monotone, which can be easily achieved, to have the overall imagination about the subject, then I just paint the color following the grayscale with other tones. It's easy with the grayscale because only the brightness of the pixel decides which pixel it is (but with other tone, we have to care about the saturation and intensity at the same time). With grayscale, I just choose the color from black to white (in a straight column in the color panel), but with red color, for example, I have to choose on a curve from bright pink to dark brown. I used to be scared with color work because of that, it's difficult to achieve the natural color gradient, until I painted with Photoshop some months ago, it changed everything...

Looks amazing, really great job! Not so common to see a not so pretty faced hero but this is a surely strong one.

well done... Great stuff

Fantastic work author...face,sword and the background are great,but hair and the armor are simply amazing....well done

Great job . . . .

amazing work

Congrats buddy...great great great work...keep going man...

Congrats dear friend. . . .

Congrats! for another amazing work

congrats

congrats

Astounding as always...congrats, buddy!

Thanks everyone, I was on vacation so I can't check Pxleyes, sorry for the late reply

Perfect!
I loved that!
Congratulations.

Oh this is very nice, amazing details and ton scales.

Extraordinary...well done author

Well done.

Congrats...

Congrats . . . .

Wow! I spent a really long time on this, longer than anything I've ever submitted. But after seeing all of the great entries in this contest I thought for sure I wouldn't place in the top three. Thanks everyone for the comments and votes.

Congrats. Very cute and nice work with amazing detail.

congrats

Superb!!

Thank you Chalty..., here my monitor is out of Control and I am not sure about the brightness/Contrast....

high score

oh v. nice

N!ce........

U done it beautifully. . . . Superb . . . .

I really like this.Good work.I think you forgot to paint eyebrow

thanks ushurani, i know that..., but my pc is dead with the psd....

No problem, I think, the horse even has no eye lol, but we're not working with photo, so they're all acceptable . Very nice work, author

Very cool drawings...best of luck

Good figure but lack of details

Congrats my friend,this is great work and u had tough competition......keep going buddy...

That was a beautiful scene . . . . But lack of little details . . . . Any way better luck next time . . . . And try to purchase a new pc . . . .

Updated version here...
http://www.pxleyes.com/picture/32517/4d23f15a6b231.html

Fantastic work author...Great job on a falcon head and warriors face...Very well done

great...... nice job..... keep it up......