Still has the same flaws as your first post.

Amazing work of Art author! Nice work!

'spell-binding'... just don't like the swirl background

Lovely duck, nice use of the source, good luck!

Nice colors. Like the Twirl background. GL.

Love the glow effect on the duck! Nice work author!

Cool duck, spellbinding background, very cool way you made the head.

Awesome duckling

hehehe.. reminds me of the spells they used to cast in the old Red Sonja Comic books.. hehe very well done

Nice work author...Best of luck!

amazing author love it
good luck
high vote and fav

Dramatic. The shadows are a bit odd, however. Each element seems to have its own light source (and sometimes more than one).

DanKundberg i'm not sure about what you're referring to. Are you talking about the door? Well the shadow is way less intense there than the woman's because there's a lot of light coming from the top of it (spell). The runes are all covered with the stairs/grass so making a longer shadow isn't justified in my opinion.

nice job...

great work...

nice

Congrats, stunning work

Nice Job Congrats on your Win.

The clouds behind the globe should be slightly distorted, if only around the edges of the globe. They are too uniform at present.

Here is a "glass orb" tutorial that might help you with the edges:
http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm

thanks... this is a WIP if you may call it... hehe

Globe improved...

Tried to upload SBS but its not uploading the steps, Will try again later.

Very very cool. great imagination.

Great entry author...i can feel coldness from the image...best of luck

Thank you, I was very pleased with how this one turned out:

Lovely work and a great choice for the theme.

I love it!

Beautiful work on your chosen subject.