Thank you Missy!

Nice job with a crappy source.

great job.. hehehehe

Thank you, guys!!! \o/

begger, back to the ideas board..you bet me to it. well done author... good choice of colours and use of a challenging source image.

Nicely done! But I must note that the background linked as a source is not the background that appears to have been used in this piece. Or there's a source missing. Either way, you might want to check that, author. Good luck!

Thank you guys!

Elemare, thanks for the note, I put the wrong link, an image that I downloaded but not used!

Oh, Author, I suspected that, since I suffer from that tendency CONSTANTLY! I download 8-10 sources, sometimes more, and end up using only 2 or 3 by the end. But it's great for inspiration, isn't it?

Nicely Done!

Nice jobs, the blending of the fire and the bow is really good. However, you can improve your photo by manipulating the background, it should be darker, without the bright sky (since your main focus is the fire, other light sources are misleading) and if possible, the background should be in cold tones such as blue, so your focus will be enhanced. Good luck, author!

waay too creative

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if add little glow at the hood near the clasped hands will add more realism.
should make the background woods behind him darker, it may be better

nicely done GL Author

well done...., lot's of good entries in this contest..., gl

Thank you!!!!

\o/

Awesome!!

Awesome!!

Congrats on 4th.. lots of entries and a rough choice for 1st, 2nd,3rd.

imho.....too colorful for background!

I so agree with genuine2009

According suggestions (thanks!) I paled some items, except flames and red flower, kept in vivid colors on purpose - it's a ritual of love...

looks better now....

Author I like what you are going for here....IMO the added elements are still too bright and require some blurring around the edges to help blend because in high res the things look to be "floating" above the ground..You might also want to try cloning some of the background to help with the blending issues..Best of Luck

Thanks! With suggestions and tips I can improve my work more and more!

It's kind of a minimal use of the source.

U have 3 skulls and one bone....D

spooky image

Nice mood.. great job

great entry

Ahh...guess who's coming to dinner? I like this, just a couple of tweaks... the left arm foreshortening is a little off. His wrist band should be shorter now it looks as long as his forearm. At that extension the triceps would be more pronounced and we'd see more of the lattisimus dorsi muscles. The forearm would be larger in diameter where it's closer to us and get smaller at the wrist. The rim light on the figure (camera left) should extend to the clothing and leg as well. There should also be some reflected firelight on his owl mask as you have on his neck and arm. Very nice work GL!

Great entry, and a very good job... nice imagination.. gl...It reminds me of Mel Gybson's "Apocalypto".

I like the color and illustration, but there are a lot of hard edges that could be softer...the hard edges cause a cut/pasted look. The hand on the left of main figure...the fingers have virtually no shadow. Other than that...it's very nice!

Oh, scary!

Nice job!

Wow,but not world of warcraft...lol....great work author i love this....

Great concept...but and there always is a but. The illustrated portion of your image looks disjointed from the source image. Also the front creatures right arm looks odd. Keep choppin'!

great job, very good working on the flame, good luck

Thanks for the nice comments and votes, always appreciated.

Congrats, Henk!

Congrats Waz, wonderful work

Congrats for 1st....

congrats on your first place

Congrats, love the shaman!

great job waz

wow, very nice, great job as usual author

Congratulations!

Congrats! great work

A ritual it is......

congrats!!... well done...

congrats

Congratulations, Waz!

Congrats!!