Congratulations...brilliant work

a well placed 1st.. congrats...

I seen this coming! CONGRATS!

AMAZING! You make me want to run out and buy a pen-pad....even though I can't draw quite as exceptionally as you!

cool

You are quite the talented one!!!! Bravo author!!!!

AWESOME author!!!!!

FANTASTIC!!

Author, you have incredible talent! This is fantastic work.

Great job Author......Good Luck.

I only found Pxleyes a few says ago and use Photoshop mainly for photo editing,but drawings like yours give me a boost to spend more time on digital art.I have to learn a lot of course,but picking up bits and pieces from the 'masters' along the road will certainly help me in the right direction.
The Duel Of Oranges comes close to perfection in my humble opinion,it's stunning !

I like the story you placed on your entry and this creation, wow...magnificent!

Magnificent! An instant fav here!

Great

Stunning

wow...awesome entry

Love everything in it.... lol, another congrats in advance.....

Orange... Fantassy and lot of fantassy.... lol... you did the fantastic work, Congrats in advance...... (INSTANT FAV) keep entering....

sounds gay, dude...haha, nice idea dude!
love that techno-looking-eye! =)

keep on ROCKING, Mr. Cintiq,......hehehehe......yes you are briliant...! breathtaking entries..!:rockb)

man you are amazing

You are indeed quite an artist!

This is so beautiful! A real fantasy! My instant favorite!

Welcome to Pxleyes. Glad you found us!!!! What a future you have!! This is a fantastic entry!! GL

exceptional

WOW I am amazed! Wonderful work author!

Author: Thanks for your feedback on my comment above. By calling you a "professional" I ment to tell you that you have made the effort to follow the suggestions for corrections, or adjustments to your work. You will see that some entries, do not even make corrections, or follow an advise to bette their work. This is a place to learn, it is true, that by looking at work like yours, will open a huge avenue for those who want to learn. Details are important in an entry, shadows, light, perspective, appareance, color harmony....etc, you have shown us that with patience and taking the time to correct your entries, we can learn from you, as well as from other exceptional Artists here in Pxleyes.

You have to have a commitment to create something nice and appealing to others, as I told you, you have the talent and the artistic creativity in your hands and mind. Forget about what I said about you having an advantage over others, by using fancy stuff, to create Art. It is you, who creates this, and your talent is endless. Thanks again for allowing us to be witnessing something beautiful....... !

Beautiful composition, but I agree, the characters appear somewhat flat. The center appears to be taking place in a room with the background consisting of painted large creatures watching. This is particularly because of the shadow behind the green figure.

The creature in the lower RH corner (werewolf?) looks out of place, and almost an afterthought, with the glowing edge of the figure in front of his mouth aligning too much with the profile of his face. The glow itself is out of place and inconsistent with the image lighting.

This is a very entertaining image, none the less.

oh....you're rocking pxleyes.com....! just another super elite work....!:bow2b)

I do not know what is with me and these lines, but there is another on wolf ear sorry but this picture has to be perfect ,I really like your work, I wish you all the best

Just want to say that your entry is one of the best DD I have seen this week. I think you have the talent and the creativity to do works and illustrations like this particular. I have seen your work and I am happy that you posted it here. I think by using Photoshop CS5, Wacom Intuos 4 and Cintiq, gives you the advantage of create a good Illustration, but remember that there are members who do not have all the fancy stuff you use for your work, and are limited to use just a Photoshop program, not even a CS 3! You are a professional, and yes, we like to see work like this. Hope to see some of your tutorials, if you post one. Good luck!

very good work, i like it a lot ,only one small thing,you left the line in the upper left corner of the horns, GL

I understand your situation, that's totally similar to me. You don't need to do that for the contest because you can win it easily and get high score. My critique is for the case if you want to improve and even commercialize your work. Thank you for your effort, if you didn't do that, we can't have this kind of work in Pxleyes ^^

Okay, since you asked I'll give a scale to judge whether you need more depth or not. Focusing on the faces of the fairies, they're very close to the light source, right? comparing the highlight on their face and the midtones, they're dramatically different, so your light source is strong in the center but becomes weaker considerably as the distance increases. Therefore, the shadow and highlight on the dragon and the tree should be more dramatic also. The green and yellow fairies seem to be on the same plane and the two fighters are on top of them., etc.

BTW signature is not that hidden... i seriously suggest to remove it for contest purposes, since precisely viewing the details is an important matter to vote...

wonderful piece of art! Raw illustration as its best. However agree with langstrum, the only weakness is the flatten look of the image, it just makes it look more cartoonish, but that's just our opinion that we think a lil' depth would make it even better, maybe this is just the way you intended...

I envy your patience and effort on this work, and it should get very high score. Details, brush patterns, composition, and colors are awesome. Maybe there are many artworks out there with greater amount of details but considering this is the new entry for a weekly contest, not much people can do the same as you did. However, still there is a 'however' (please forgive me if I'm too strict on giving that critique), each layer of character is quite flat to me, you can work more on shadows and highlight to give more depth to your work, to reach the perfection. Still, elite work!

This is definitely my favorite illustration so far!! great job author

yes....one of the great artist here.........with amazing works.....!

it's been a long time since I picked up a pencil to sketch...

due to work, I used photoshop more... perhaps I will one of these days.

thanks for the encouragement, Hayato

Very Nice author...you have really captured the water!!! Well done

We have a great artist here.!!!. Gongrats.

I love it!

wow, great job!

love it!

Impressive!

Just... PERFECT!!! I really like this one!! Good luck!!

Very unique idea and great work!

Very nice author!!!