FAB WORK!!!

Thank you!

Nice, but 50% orange at best.

"In this contest, we're going to create such a fantasy scene with the color 'orange' as the main theme... anything fantasy related goes, as long as the dominant color of your subjects in your scenery is made out of orange tones."

Orange tones. Please check my SBS. Thanks for stopping by.

I like it, nice job on the blending/smoothening of lady..

like the in-between butterfly-firefly idea

easily could be an image in a fairytale book

The highlights are orange and the highlights dominate the image, so it's orange enough for me. Reshaping the butterfly wings into something more dramatic was inspired. I'm not sure what happened in Step 4 of the SBS, but she started looking at her thumb instead of the butterfly which drastically minimizes the overall impact.

Dan, I think what happened was the added light to reflect the insect glow in her eyes? I toned it down. Thank you!

Interesting composition, GL!

elegant and sweet (fantastic source find) GOOD LUCK!!!

Lovely image and beautifully done ... your "over-painting" really finishes the piece nicely. Great SBS ... you get extra points from me for that!!!

Very nice Author and I agree with Arca good luck

Beautiful fairy tail girl

Wow.. such painstaking work, beautiful result!

This is lovely. The only nit pick I have is the dragon on the bottom, who is lit from the top, which is totally out of place for the rest of the image. You could crop him (and the bottom of all that cloud background) off of the image, and not hurt your composition at all, probably improve it, actually, by directing the focus back onto your subject, instead of the ineffective horizonal re-direct.

thx for the comment mossy, cropped the dragon and the image with less clouds now
looks better now

Moving the dragon REALLY helped the composition. The viewer's eye is now better directed around the image, with the main focal point easier to return to. Good job!

Dramatic. The saturation/brightness of the flame is much too weak, however. (It's wimpier than that dragon's breast and back!) The black on the the lower dragon makes it look fake when the bottom of the floating island has nothing anywhere near that black.

A lot of fairies in this contest, nice blending. GL!

"...could not stand to sit on the computer ..." Of course not, because then you'd be standing, not sitting...lolol!
Sorry you're feeling bad, but your image is lovely!

Thanks guys!

MossyB Thanks, I corrected the word! Sorry for my bad English!

And thank you for the esteem, Mossy!!

I took medicine, I am much better!

And now, I'm sitting in front of my computer and will be for a long time!!! Hahaha...

There are indeed a lot of orange fairies here. What I like about this one is that she is bright/saturated rather than muted/dreamy which then provides a dramatic contrast with the black in the background. (I would really like to see an SBS as I think your recolored version of the model is better than the source—which however is nicely very white so very amenable to recoloring.)

Dan, thank you for your strong comment!

The color was very simple, but I will provide a small sbs for you to see!

Wait!

Very instructive SBS.

Gorgeous gold and orange fantasy

Beautiful!

the boat is distracting....

title should be "the duel"... more appropriate?

anyway, with the boat out of the picture, I will love it more

Interesting. More yellow than orange to my eye, however. The twin monumental St. Stephen sculptures make the small, unexpectedly unstaffed boat (surprisingly white in the very yellow light BTW) boat seem out of place. Actually, the boat seems oversized for the setting. With all the intense background light, the light on the front side of the statues seems odd.

Thank you everyone, I will update my entry and I will remove the boat for sure!

if no time, suggest just crop off the boat, the image will still look good

Lovely

Thank you everyone for support and suggestions.

@aheman and DanLundberg - Boat removed from the image.
Entry name updated as per suggestion by aheman.
@DanLundberg and everyone, I have updated the image let me know if you have any suggestions.

it's PERFECT now!

I guess the knight on the right (brighter one) will win

Hahaha... thank you my friend

Would love to have seen an SBS for this ... great image!

Thank you Arca for showing interest in my creation. I really want to post the SBS but because of busy schedule I don't think it will be possible, but I will try my best.

The sparkle brush on the fish is a wee bit over-dominant to the image, but the overall concept and execution is very well done!

should make the whole image more "saturated" color of orange, now more black than orange

Interesting, but the central thing is too flat and indiscernable. Actually, I'm not sure why the central thing is necessary. (Delete the central thing and move the boy slightly in front of the girl.) Also, the trees in the background have as much depth as a painted flat in a high-school musical. So many flares is distracting IMO.

Thanks so much for the comments, everyone! The baby dragon was reworked - and hopefully is now better defined; the entire image was lightened to look more medium orange than dark orange, and the glow of the flares was muted.

(By the way, Dan, about the background, EXACTLY what I wanted!) : )

Very sweet! Background is very interesting, it kind of makes a secluded enclosure. The texture on the little dragon was done well, I like that you left some parts without it. Great job with extraction of the fairy and Pan, too.

LOL, RIPSAW. I was just reading your post in the forums.