The outer glow looks a bit out of place, and there's a bit too much "dead space" between the title and the subject, but a nice entry anyway!

Pretty subjective comment, but I'll take it on the chin and try to justify the Image: I like the spacing. You don't. Oh well...
The glow is to make the fly seem like more than "just" a fly.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to comment.

actually that was a very objective comment, glows, gradients, and such a detailed fly are not precisely minimalistic, plus, if you just stick to the rule of thirds you'll see that the image it's actually unbalanced

Great compilation and idea.

very nice author gl..

Thank you for your comments.

Where's the book?

Really neat concept author. best of luck.

The book is there, but it cannot be seen because of the outer glow and the pages. Thanks Rod13.

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

hehehehe great job!!

Very nice updated version! Nice woodworking.

niceeeeee....great album and so cool work...gl

very nice entry author...GL!!

Good vision author. I wore out the groves on that album 3 times.

Congrats!!!

Congrats!!

congrats