nice mood your making there. there seems to be two lightsource from the clouds; it's too bright for the stars to be seen yet and some of the clouds seems to be behind the stars. lastly, a lot of dogs running syncronously is a bit odd. nice image though and i like the mood here.

You mean you've never seen a pack of synchronized dogs run wildly through a field on a dimly lit day with the stars shining brightly? haha... Well the stars were supposed to be more of a borderish thing, not really supposed to elude to night at all, so oops on that one. The two light sources were intentional to imply a cloud breaking the light source into "two"..... and I like synchronized dogs...lol

the lightrays wouldn't supposed to be on the same angle then, and the dog would have stronger shadow with that strong light...just my observation. good work though!

nice work... didn't under stand the dog's intention there.. are they going to attak her... the three dogs seems like that but the other dogs that are far dosent look like so...and the lights are still strange.. looks like they are coming from two different angle.. else is very good and nice mood created... very well done and Gl. Author..

I'm agree with hereisanoop

Thanks for all the input! I can see I could definitely have made the lighting a little better, directionally and more shadows, I was just trying not to overdo it with the shadowing actually! Anyways, thanks to all, your critiques are very valuable.

HELL!

Good except for the lack of flesh tone on the right hand figure...

sorry CMYK I dont understand what you mean by lack of flesh tone on right. could you be more precise. and the clouds is a way to see heaven NATOR by doing this I wanted everybody get the idea at the first glance. thanks for your comments

This is awesome!!! i had a similar idea, but just couldnt put it into illustration... well done Author! And Good Luck

Heaven please. Decent result, it's a bit fluffy, but decent enough I guess :P

Very nice work author...i agree about the clouds...at my opinion would be better if air girl was from water...because fire and water are opposite,air helps fire to get stronger...just my opinion...still this is great work...high marks for the execution...

Yeah, and the girl on the left... her arm ends suddendly. but if it didn't end, it would go into her back :S

Looks nice...

please see the original picture. the girls arm goes to the back. and the left image is over the right. thats whiy you cant see the right arm of the right girl.

nice job with making the girls give off flame/cloud

An interesting take on the theme. GL!

its a humdinger !

Beautiful....

Great pic, good luck in the comp.

great eye RichieMB. I hadnt seen it. but now is corrected. if you find something else, please tell me. thank you guys for your comments.

forgive my manners, I forgot to thank: zambyoo7 for his image el puente del diablo; to doogit for the image clouds; to bjearwicke for the image friendship and to voodoo4u2n for the image black wings. thanks again

Nice blending...suggestion...perhaps remove the soft white inside the door way at top center...it doesn't seem to fit. Very nice image, author!

EDIT: Looks

Fantastic entry.....Superb work.....

I would have cropped the picture just above the gate, now it just kinds of hangs there.. unless it's meant to be that way? Wings are very hard to blend, I'd have also covered her back with some more dress/hair to make it more realistic. Nice composition overall..

very pretty.. might want to take the hand of the OTHER girls right hand and place it over this girls hand so it doesn't look so cut in half (I think you wanted to look like it blended into the clouds but I can't get my eye to unglue from it.. great job though (Just a suggestion.. if you like it.. that's cool too

Beautiful,

Nice one but the shadow with the clouds's cut looks weird, also the wings should be more natural blended. GL!

thanks for your comments. fixed tha shadow. added a right hand, tried to blend better the wings, erased the white spot on the top, I hope is better now. I want to thank demordian for the picture of the hand.

I guess it's a door....

it seems quite unused doorway..

Wonderful lighting.

Adjust shadows to light source...

CMYK...could you be a bit more specific? I really want to make this as good as it can get and I know you are a stickler for details!

I think what he means is with such a strong light coming from the top, the undersides of the steps etc would be very dark

Thanks RayTedwell for the suggestion. I have fixed the shadows and it looks better to me.
I am open to ANY and ALL suggestions for improvement. So my thanks to you and CMYK.

That does look better - good job with the burning . I would just darken the ceiling a bit too.

very nice and very well done

Beautiful!

great light source.

This image is all made of hope!

beautiful image

Love the creation.....G/L Author.

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats for your second place, Sparklen!

congrats!

congrats

congrats!

COOOOOOOONGRATS!!!!! Hehehe, excellent image!!

excellent image! Great work!

Nicely done.

good

I'd be afraid of heaven too, if two creepy looking blue women were waiting for me there...