The "pedestal" the dragon is sitting on lacks depth. Even in high res, the dragon appears to be floating, rather than sitting on it. The shading under the dragon is causing this, as you have dark shadows on his belly, but the pedestal is light colored. The diagonal light shining down from the upper LH corner compounds the inconsistency.

Edited! Decided I didn't need sleep and agreed with Mossy so did what I could ... it is now a vertical image and I have done work on the pedestal to make it stand out more ... part of the darkness on the bottom of the dragon is because is heating up
I don't have time to change the SBS but at least that way you can get an idea of what it looked like originally

Nice entry....Love the dragon... good luck. The colors are just beautiful...

Excellent work, terrific sbs too, nice to see the original in the sbs, I think the edited version is much better though... GL

fantastic work.., dragon is perfect and beautiful. good luck author..

I agree the edited version is much better, puts greater emphasis on the dragon which is so well constructed! Definitely check out the high res!

Fabulous piece of work. Your SBS is amazing too. Work on a dragon is master piece. Great drawing but after that fantastic usage of the source image. This goes instantly to my favorites...very very well done

awesome! lots of work on this one

Amazing!

OUTSTANDING! Can really tell this took quite a bit of time and coffee to put together. Good Luck author.

Thank you so much everyone!
I almost didn't submit this one as I was running out of time and, yes, you are right Rod it took a lot of coffee!
This was something I have had in mind for a long time (I played with drawing the dragon a while ago and gave up); when I saw the seeds on the bun I felt it was time to go for it asI thought they would work quite well for the scales!

That was awsome....congrtulations for second.....!

Congrats Arca, it is one of the best dragons ever made in Pxleyes

congrats...!

Congrats

Congrats on 2nd place!

Congrats... Nancie....

Congrats!!

great art! congrats

hot enough flame shadow is very original touch GL !!!

WOOO HOOO A ZOOM ZOOM

Man this is great, why didn't you fix tat ragged seat though?

thanks Ichappell , sorry about the seat (lost too much time on the wheels so some other parts suffered , i guess i just got tired )

very good!

I love it a lot! Best of luck author!

looks 3D..amazing work!

Perfect construction...well done author

Very nice reconstruction.

very good work....GL

Congrats for your second place, Mazanda!

Congratulations

Congratulations for 2nd

Congratulations...i think if you had worked on the background you would of got 1st.

Congrats!!

good Job Congrats

This is wonderful. I like your creativity.

Thank You trim49

very creative! nice imagination!

Thank You Androla for your comment

I loved the movie Short Circuit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/

This reminds me of him or it, in the movie.

Thanks trim49
You know your right I didn't think about it at the time I remember it after seeing the trailer #5 That movie was good

LOVE IT!!

thank you!

Great work. The blend is superior.

thanks a lot!

Agreed! very nice blending Great entry

MANY THANKS!!!

very cool work author...it...gl

Really nice work, author! I like how you altered the face source as well. Well done comp!

thank you!!!

the ears appear to be to high on the head but the blend is great

i guess, though it's too late to fix...

Nice idea...i would of made the rest of his face and neck red too.
And also a spot on top of his shoulder

I really like this one! Nice job on the head blending. Just one little thing...there's an odd pinkish line artifact happening from his chest upward away from him. Otherwise...I love it!!!

Now thats one hot pepper!

Sweet, errr, hot

Well done!

Very nice blending... best of luck

Great thinking and perfect blend...well done author

congrats rick, well deserved !

congratulation...

Hi, congratulation...

Congrats for the second place

Congrats!!

Congrats