I think it would have looked better if the lamp would have been straight down from the "ceiling"

Nice work with the lighting effects.

Yeah I agree Eladine, I was actually trying to find a light that was hanging straight down, but then came across this source and really liked the texture and everything so I decided to go with it

Fine art work.. luv it..

Thanks I certainly appreciate hearing that!

Congrats

hehehe.. sweet and cute (In reality the big turtle would eat the baby.. LOL sad but true).. sea turtles are total piggies great work and excellent creation!!!

Hahah on my god I did not know that!!?! Crazy! Well in the real world they also don't fly so I think the baby will be safe in my world!

Really lovely image, wonderful mood!

nice work gl author..!!

I certainly appreciate your comments everyone, thanks!!!

Great one!

Thanks!

Very beautiful

Great job !

Sweet chop, well done.

Congrats author !

Congrats Robert wonderful image

congrats

congrats...

Congrats on a very well deserved win!
~M

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

Very impressive, I wouldn't like to meet this critter

Nice evolution, but the light reflection doesn't work with the sunlight shining from behind the creature... Better to ditch that back entrance, and make an opening above and to the right, so that the lighting is consistent.

Very cool and well crafted work! To be honest I perceive the light as coming from above, right and just in front of the creature, not behind it. So it looks correct to me.

Light spreads, this works for me. Great concept and painting, author!

Light looks fantastic to me..., but I really don't care about the light, I think the manipulation and overall result is just fantastic! Great Job author

Thanks everyone! and I do see what you mean Mossy, but I had the light just coming from the top right. Having the bright white corner just sorta threw of my composition so I put that rock in front of it. The beams of light were coming in front of him for a while, but I just didn't like what that did to the shadows. Also for all we know there is another hole up above to the right that we just cant see! perhaps if I have time I'll do some tweaking thought

Great, great work!!! Impressive!

Why thanks you!!!!

Yeeeees, the Evolution could play very eccentric tricks

Congratulations!!! Great work!!

thanks

thanks

Congrats!!

Super duper congrats!!!

Congrats

congrats for 1st. Really great work.

SUPER DUPER THANKS EVERYONE!!!

It's a great entry but you really CBR'd the source, meaning (Chopped Beyond recognition. There's no sign of the original source in your image. I had to go to the SBS just to see where you used it. I think you should have put more of the original source back into it

AWESOME!

I agree with jawshoewhah, but it is still a beautiful piece of art.

Yeah I actually agree with you guys now that you mention it. I really did want to take the time to make armor for him out of the source, but didn't have the time
Is there a way to take down your own entries?

Oh this is great and I think you can do whatever you like as long as you have the SBS to show your work. I like this a lot, and sorry jaws, I just think you should be able to do whatever your heart desires with the starting image.

Look, CBRing isn't against the rules but a lot of people give lower scores for it. And I'm sorry I disagree with you Emik. IMO, if you didn't need the source to make the image you really didn't use it. It defeats the purpose of a source image contest.

Author. Do not take your entry away, you used part of the source image to make your entry. You had the idea, although some times it is better working with the whole image. I think you did a good job, and spent a lot of time pulling your brains out of your head, just to make this beautiful image. I have seen worst CBR entries. I wish you good luck!

Author,wings creation is fantastic,final product is very good,but usage of the source image is to minimal...this could be made with any image...When i saw your SBS i had that wow thing...wings are perfectly...U could made some flying creature with that and put it on top of containers or to construct something else with source image...In that case u could have another amazing entry...Any how this is very cool final product and i wish u best of luck

got my vote very nice Author

Hey everyone I really apreciate all the comments. Glad you like it dispite the lack of lots of source. I was wondering how much I am still aloud to edit? Is it ok if I spend time adding more source image in? Or is it to late to make any major changes? Like I keep saying i totally agree, I intended for pretty much th entire body to be source image but got to busy with work to spend more time on it.

IMO, the image is a bit noisy, I almost couldn't recognize the airplane.

agree with erikuri

thanks i will fix it now

That's a plane? I thought that was the hostess Twinkie man committing suicide. Yeah, definitely work on your details better and always try to find the biggest source stock with the high res res to get best results.