Beautiful image - You put a LOT of hard work into this, and the results show it. Excellent entry.

Pure hard work!...this is just awesome on every detail.
and this is my fav too author,GL.

Fantastic creation! Beside hard working things, I really like how you played with light. Even though the candle lights aren't located in a really good composition (which you can improve more), a nice touch on the saturation level still made them great. This image looks like a 3D artwork. Definitely one of your best works!

very nice composition... gr8 work..... this is called Passion......

Thanks a lot for the great comments and advices...I made some slight changes thanks to my friend Langstrum and i think that image looks a bit more dramatic now...Thanks...)

I dream to be able to build something like this! Perfect!
Fav!

Good luck!

Nice work, author, very convincing. Love the lighting and atmosphere.

dats a lotta Harry Potter good luck

Very well done great image. gl

Beautiful work but not much use of the source.

Thanks a lot for the wonderful comments guys, it means a lot to me...@freejay, source image was own face, i used whole and place it on major object on stage, so i think that usage of the source is ok, and thanks for your comment...

excellent job

fantastic work!!

Yep...lots of work...and nice attention to detail, author!

Congrats for the 1st place, you really deserved!! Awesome work!

Congrants

Congrats on your win...really well deserved.

Congrats on your win

Congrats Erathion terrific work

Congrats my friend, you really deserve the first place, even with higher mark!

Congrats mate, Nicely done!!

Hahaha... funny and very well done author.
A simple but effective work!
Good luck!

hehehe

Love the idea!..well done.

Great image, well done, good luck!

Thank you all for the compliments and well-wishes....

Thank you Nator.

Wow, it does have that old classic look - nice blending and concept, author!

Congrats for 2nd place, you did a great job! Fav.

Thanks DO... appreciate your congrats.

Congrats!!

cheers sr.

Nice colors!

Very nice blend, lovely atmosphere, good luck!

Agree with JimLemon and enblanco

very nice blend!

he makes me squint

Congrats for the 3rd place!!! Lovely work!

Congrats!!

Thanks Daniela and spaceranger..

this is hilarious and really well executed...i loved the muted blue color tone you used....congrats

nice ideea.. good job.. try to crop the the upper part of the image ..i think it will bring more focus on the eyes

Smudge work is too obvious. Move the image up and leave some black space for the type at bottom. You'll have a better composition.

Yeap!!! I like it that obvious!..
Thanks pshoudini..and thank u too ciulama im gonna crop it
a little bit..thanks for commenting.

The edges on the side look very crude and poorly done, with an odd, jagged effect that does not correspond with the rest of the image, and extreme blurring which does not match the harsh jagged edge.

Cute idea, but the technical execution needs work.

Hey MossyB,u r right!,
,i did an effect to the whole pic that put the image extremely blurry
im gonna do an update on that ..thanks for the comment.

Made an update..for this pic im gonna be in the "safe zone",no fx at all..
its a lot cleaner..
and yes hes going to have a good good time!!!..

You can try to make the beak rise too

Oh yeah..nice tip!! ps.robgd thanks
im going to try that.

you're welcome!

Good blend.

TERRIFIC (IMHO, maybe a soft burn brush on the beak will make it stand out more, not necessary but the thumbnail looks like there is no beak there at all) great IDEA!!!

Thank you, CMYK46 and Drivenlush.
@ Drivenlush: I tried to make the beak more visible, I think I managed now.

Really nice blending and very convincing work!

Thanks.