WOAH!! ... Instant favourite.. mega high marks... FANTASTIC DRAGON!!

You should have used a real Chinese dragon for reference. The squiggly things are kinda distracting, and the legs are kinda stumpy...otherwise it's very well done. Good luck!
EDIT: Well, OK then...no harm, no foul...go for it!

In my nightmare (yeah, it really happened) the squiggly things were whipping all over the place and I knew if they touched me, I would die. The legs were like a centipede, stumpy, and the claws clicked as it writhed after me. Seriously, no more pizza just before bedtime.

I just love the teeth and beard.. the wigglies make me think of worms LOL.. great JOB

That's an amazing work, looks really good. I think you should make a better background tho.

Yikes........Snake Dragon! Good work!

i really like the head, the body is nice aswell, but those yellowish things distract the attention from the dragon. yes, i read your comment about your nightmare, and i know you aimed for "reality" but you should really consider to do something with those things (either remove them completely and never mind reality, either modify them somehow, so they don't distract the viewers attention that much)

really cool!

excellent job i love how you made the body , but it's hiding behind those yellow things (i don't know what they are), maybe it would look better without them. GOOD LUCK

Congrats for your first place, IDt8r! It's really a great image! And if pizza before bedtime causes you such brilliant nightmares, I think you should give it another try Who knows, what other great things you are dreaming!

Congrats, nice work

Congrats on ur number one spot

Thanks to all for the comments and votes.

Congrats!, very nice work

congrats!!

Congratulations on the first place!

congrats

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats!

amazing! Congratulations!!!

incredible.....I do lots of dragons and this one is styling!

beautiful image, great use of source

Wow Great work! congrats in advance!

Beautiful..!!

How lovely! Very great blending and composition I just love these little details like the ivy. Good luck!

Nice image, but the leaves are off scale...way too tiny compared to the birds....

That's not a problem CMYK, in a few weeks the birds will leave their nest and you won't notice anymore

LOL...now, now, author...you can easily fix the scale problem, and probably come up with a better image. I know you can do it...

whoah! great idea and image

wow lovely design

grt use of source......................................nicely done..............

Great imagination.......cropping is also awesome....GL

Of course you where right CMYK, I've made them larger

very nice mood

very nice

very nice image

beautiful use of source author.

I love a good finch! This is a beautiful image.

That is something nice to look at.... good luck author

beautiful image , GL

Congrats for your second place, Rob! I could look at it for hours

Congrats on ur number 2nd place

Congrats Rob!

Congrats! - great work

congrats

Congratulations!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats, very good use of source and very creative result

Congrats!

Very cool, Congratulations!

Wow...this is a surprise! Love it that it's so different.

it's nicely crafted, too bad it's not more asymmetrical, and a background wold be nice.

I think it looks great.. very beautiful image, normally i'd like to see a background, but in this case, the gradient you chose works very, very well. Good luck!

very very cute job

great pic!

I just want to say that you did a wonderful job. Lots of layers, lot of thinking, lot of work, but at the end.... a beautiful job! Good luck author!

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

Congratulations for your third place, Cornelia!

Congrats!, nice to see change in your style. Good work

congrats cutie entry

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

Congratulations!!! cool image!!!

Edges could be better, otherwise it's great! Waiting for the SBS...

It should be absolutely terrifying but I actually like it.. sorta like in return of the Jedi and they Kill that thing in the pit and everyone starts crying.. hehehe.. very great job!!!

thanks guys...ill do some more fine tuning later tonight, then finish up my sbs...and for once i might sort of know what golem is talking about...a little...hehe

coolios

Looks good!

this is very disturbing but very cool also!

overall is cool but I didnt like the hands, good luck

Very nice, lots of imagination!

Make sure you use an IRON LEASH! Very creative!

very clean work....very nicely done...GL

Wow... great use of source.. high marks from me!

awaitign the step by step but looking good so far

Shadows are inconsistent, otherwise nice job...

uhm... I'm feeling something is missing... i will try to fix this tomorrow ^_^

very cool

lovely! somehow sad... but... ohhh lovely!!!

reminded me old nintendo gamesi I agree with fille, it is strangely sad.

Sweet feel.

very nice work , GL

Dont know how to explain, this is realy remind my childhood, my first class school. And SBS is very good, I learned from a picture what I didnt learn in ten tutorials. Thanks, good luck