ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh............woow.......... always wanted a "Parrosus", where can I get one?

Harry Potter will be red-eye when I ride a Parrosus

nice colors, great blending.... almost PERFECT!!! (only feel that it the mane, tail and wings were more flowing... like hair, but this is only my personal preference)

Stunning ... excellent work, wonderful creation! If I could I would fav it 2 or 3 times!

OH THANKS Glad you guys like it so much!
I do see where you are coming from aheman, but I really wanted to stick with the totally feather approach. Thanks for your input though, much appreciated

Beautiful creation, wonderful color!! Well worth the effort you put into it! The revise makes it even better!

Wonderfully thought out and done.. AWESOME!!!

Excellent image!

Wonderful colours,nice reflection,it's a fantastic creation !

nice nice

nice color combination!

this looks like a cool animal
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NICE... WELL DONE but agreed with aheman. The flowing problems because there's a minor shadows in my opinion.

And this is just my input, Author: the Rim Lights should never be 100% white. Photographers will know about this, even if it's directly hit from the sun, there will be a little yellowish or even reddish for the rim lights.

Still, top notch blending, Author! High votes! Good Luck!

Beautiful composition, nice colors and wonderful creation.

Very nice work!!

Magnifique !

Thanks everyone!!!!

Hayato, thanks that was a good call, I updated the background so the light has more of an orangey glow, and is not so pristinely white.

Amazing!!!!

Love the bright colors author!..
amazing job!!!.

Amazing work, I sure wish it was real =)

hahaha ME TOO!!!! I want one!!!!

great work....awesome....

Absolutely stunning!

Fantastic work author.......... welcome back

Way Ti Go Author. Beautifully Mastered on the Coloring and Blending Work

Haha Thanks!!! and yes I've been away, was SUPER busy with work and just didn't have enough spare time to finished anything I was proud to enter, but I should have some time for a while now glad to be back!!!

Great chop

WOW WOW WOW! i don't like the head, but wow wow wow!

Excellent work.....Best of Luck Author.

Congrats!! Well done!

Congrats Robert lovely work.... I want one

Thanks everyone!!!!!

it was obvious! a huge CONGRATULATION from me!

Congratulations,well done !

Great composition, lovely sky. SBS is well done! .

wow.... beautiful job., perfect for a fantasy magazine's cover.....

awesome...... IMO the entry is perfect now.....

Beautiful entry.... good luck!

Brilliant idea and good execution, some how the colors and subjects suggested me you're the author, and bingo! I have some suggestions for this work, even though it's really good now. Some how I feel you missed one intermediate point, this is when the bird land in the well. I had a bit difficulty to figure out what's going on and I think because of that missing part, and if you have one more creature that totally separated from the well, that will even be more fantastic. The second thing is about the composition, it's quite neat now, but you still can improve...

Because you chose the portrait frame, the way of arranging the birds in a curve queue like this is reasonable, but on the other side, the new creature is flying into the area that limited by this curve. Regarding the idea of this piece, to me, it's a kind of incomplete transformation. How about using landscape frame? so you can arrange the birds on the left and the new creature on the right, you have wide landscape and be able to modify the two parts of the sky to fit the subjects. Just from my angle. Wish you the best of luck with this contest !

Thanks langstrum, as usual your comments are much appreciated. This was a hard one; my original image did have a bird flying into the Well but I took it out as I was not happy with it but you could be right ... maybe I need to do another photo shoot with crows as the one I had just didn't look right. About the format ... maybe if I change it (back) to Landscape it would look better. I will have to give that a try! Again thanks!!!

And thank you to everyone for the wonderful comments

Great image and SBS!

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

Fantastic work!!!! o_o

very cool interesting work...best of luck author

Wow, I'm impressed with how you build up his back legs just from what is already there, very well done. And I like flying frogs, they look so cute = )

This is well done and really cute.

Love the guy in the background chasing the dragonfly! All around great work and love the twist of humour you have brought to it!

Great job on the frog's legs. Love the whimsy of this, could be a kids' book illustration. I heard this version: And if your mother had wheels, she'd be a trolly.

It's a great entry but you really CBR'd the source, meaning (Chopped Beyond recognition. There's no sign of the original source in your image. I had to go to the SBS just to see where you used it. I think you should have put more of the original source back into it

AWESOME!

I agree with jawshoewhah, but it is still a beautiful piece of art.

Yeah I actually agree with you guys now that you mention it. I really did want to take the time to make armor for him out of the source, but didn't have the time
Is there a way to take down your own entries?

Oh this is great and I think you can do whatever you like as long as you have the SBS to show your work. I like this a lot, and sorry jaws, I just think you should be able to do whatever your heart desires with the starting image.

Look, CBRing isn't against the rules but a lot of people give lower scores for it. And I'm sorry I disagree with you Emik. IMO, if you didn't need the source to make the image you really didn't use it. It defeats the purpose of a source image contest.

Author. Do not take your entry away, you used part of the source image to make your entry. You had the idea, although some times it is better working with the whole image. I think you did a good job, and spent a lot of time pulling your brains out of your head, just to make this beautiful image. I have seen worst CBR entries. I wish you good luck!

Author,wings creation is fantastic,final product is very good,but usage of the source image is to minimal...this could be made with any image...When i saw your SBS i had that wow thing...wings are perfectly...U could made some flying creature with that and put it on top of containers or to construct something else with source image...In that case u could have another amazing entry...Any how this is very cool final product and i wish u best of luck

got my vote very nice Author

Hey everyone I really apreciate all the comments. Glad you like it dispite the lack of lots of source. I was wondering how much I am still aloud to edit? Is it ok if I spend time adding more source image in? Or is it to late to make any major changes? Like I keep saying i totally agree, I intended for pretty much th entire body to be source image but got to busy with work to spend more time on it.