This was sort of last minute and half old work, but I decided to do card #13 Death....
Sorry to person before me, didn't mean to use the same card.
As for the subject matter, I really wanted to portray the feeling of judgement before afterlife. On one side it is heaven, the other is hell (no leaves). The soul is traveling along the river styx, hence the lost souls trying to hitchhike from the protagonist. Of course I had to put in the angel of death, but I gave him a halo of green fire to present his status. I used sort of a Vanitas theme with the hour glasses, presenting death and decay. (5 years and 3281 days ago)
wow awesome work!!!
That's so interesting to have two entries about the same card in this contest, but the approaches are on the opposite ways, one goes to heaven and one goes to hell, what a coincidence! About this work I love everything from the composition, colors and details, especially the river of zombie. The design of the angel is awesomely cool, I always want to make an angel like that. The words don't work well for me tho, and I think because of the constraint in time you decided to use them. Very nice, and high mark from me!
Oh *sigh* beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. The way you have the lighting, the pontoon coffin-raft, the sentries by the gate...everything. I love your vision of card 13 and want to see the rest of the deck.
A personal question, if I may. Have you taken art classes or are you self-taught?
amazing work, love all the little details
Awesome! GL
Very well done but have to agree with Langstum on the lettering , doesn't fit real well into your image. The lower numerals should be toned down some also as they are a bit distracting. But I love your scene and the quality of your work is very good.
i love the detail ,good luck!
Definitely agree on the text, I wanted to use a boney texture, but it somehow came out metallic, due to a certain chain of events yesterday I had to settle with this.
Super work.
WOW!!! Last minute work??? You should do EVERYTHING LAST MINUTE if it always comes out this great! Nice work!!! ;0)
Wow that's impressive, even tho i don't like the text form. The illustration looks stunning!
Fabulous entry, great execution...simply perfect...i did not expected nothing less from u author...well don
Thanks a bunch for the compliments and the crits everyone
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IDt8r Sorry for not responding sooner, I am currently a student, but I'm self taught in digital painting, apparently now matter how much it is used in the industry, some schools including mine find it less of an art form and only have a few classes that allow digital painting.
Congrats for your first place!
Your talent is amazing!
Well done and congrats on the win
Congratulations! I'm so glad you decided to enter. I admire and enjoy your art work very much. You have the ability to "see" how things are supposed to go, something I'm still working on. If you keep entering these contests (please), maybe I can learn a thing or three from you.
Congrats Phil
another stunning piece of work 
Congrats Phill, so now I have one more painting to learn from, thank you so much for joining this contest.
congrats
congrats
Howdie stranger!
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