This is AWESOME !

Thanks and glad that you like it, Breaker91. And also be the first to drop down the comment. Lol!

(•̪ . •̪) ~ Thanks a million once again!

This is great. The sense of scale is fantastic. Beautiful work!

Beautiful work!

Absolutely super... Cool work... Good luck...

wow, this is excellent

Beautiful fantasy! Amazing...

Author, please, fix the link for water droplets, it doesn't work...

Thanks for the nice comments everyone! Just trying to put my thoughts into the final execution.

@ erikuri; well thanks, erikuri. I've been updated the link as well. IDK the previous link was okay last time I checked. ._.

Well Executed and great SBS...

Glad that you like it, deepakdhiman!

• SBS is just for fun though, nothing serious going on there. = )

• cheers! •

Another wonderful job... Though I wish the monster/dragon had a bigger body

EDIT: congrats on 2nd place!

Congrats!

GL.......I thought that premade brushes weren't allowed.....just curious, nicely constructed.

Lookin' good! I'd try to give the cracks more of a sense of depth, and warp them to the contours of the ear. GL author.

awww...now now...don't count me down on the lack of sbs just yet. i'll be posting it soon enough, i just didn't have it with me today, and no internet at home makes it quite hard to keep up. :P SO.. SBS will be coming.

and ... thanks on the compliments. i wasn't sure about that texture on the face, kept playing with it to try and get it to blend better. :P

If the texture is on the man on the right is on a separate layer, try completely desaturating it, since i assume the layer is set to soft light, the skin might look a bit more effective. To make the cracks seems stronger, maybe even try duplicating the texture.

OH..dang. added the SBS.
and... changed it all up a bit.
should probably credit the tut for the displacement mapping, because without it i'd have been totally lost...
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/texture-map/
if you don't know how to do those sorts of things, check it out. way easy..and entirely helpful.

Wow...great revision!

Intense emotion in this! Sweet!

Nice use of the source! GL!

Hey!!! it's You!!

Great idea author...flaming head fits perfectly with his facial expression...gl

Oh, I really liked this, and so glad for the SBS, always wanted to be able to pull something like this off. Good work and good luck author!

Figure should be more transparent, and ripple perspective adjusted, but not bad...(maybe blend in the back edge of the ripple better, too).

Nice! It has a mysterious mood!...

thanks cmyk! i've adjusted the ripple blend and the transparency. i'll try to work on the perspective if i have time, blending of ripple and man will be altered if i do it and i got a lot of thing to do right now so i can't get to it.

Nice work and very good, detailed SBS

Author, IMHO much better now! High vote from me... ,

Lovely use of light and refraction. Beautifully haunting.

Nice work...good luck author

Congrats!

congrats

very different perspective.liked ur idea.

Wow! Maybe adding somethimg to her left and right will make it more fantastic. Good Luck

I feel little use of source image....but final results are nice ...GL

Though I really like the finished image and really like what you did with the sky and color...It almost seems that you used so little source that it could have been done with any image... Still nice work, though...

Just one word...............WOW................

great finished product... maybe a little more use of original image would have been good.