lovely ......

Great one~!

Sweet!

i like it

This turned out very well. Good contrast!

Fun image. Narrow palette range is kind of blah, however. More contrast or saturation might increase the impact.

wonderful image

Nice composition. I would almost think a nice darkening soft vignette around the whole image would look nice too.

much better

Wonderful photograph

Maybe I'm wrong but I think that there should be more reflexions of the torch (don't know why but my first impresion is that they are mising). Maybe in the ice wall behind the guy...
Anyway it's a great image!!

Great sky !

Great image and SBS!

I think it would look even more awesome if you put some very subtle cracks and also have some light reflecting on the ice to make it look real.

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 !

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...

Beautiful entry.... good luck!

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

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

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

congrats

great art! congrats

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

Congrats... Nancie....

Congrats on 2nd place!

Congrats on 2nd place!

Congrats

congrats...!

Congrats Arca, it is one of the best dragons ever made in Pxleyes

That was awsome....congrtulations for second.....!

wonderful

Looks light the point of light you go for if you were in a cloud field in space and it was the way out. To much Star Trek when i was a kid.

OUTSTANDING! Can really tell this took quite a bit of time and coffee to put together. Good Luck author.

Beautiful work author...best of luck!!

Amazing!

fantastic piece author...well done

awesome! lots of work on this one

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

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!

fantastic work.., dragon is perfect and beautiful. good luck author..

Excellent work, terrific sbs too, nice to see the original in the sbs, I think the edited version is much better though... GL

I wondered what happened to Tinker Bell... very nice work

Nice entry....Love the dragon... good luck. The colors are just beautiful...

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.

Wonderful and beautiful lighting..... You have the unique style and quality in your works.. welldone, good luck to you

Lovely and this one for the top!

This is why an SBS is so important - it's a pain to remember to grab a screen capture when in the throes of creating and tweaking, but only a detailed SBS reveals the intricacy of techniques used (and some great tricks!) This is strikingly beautiful in its subtlety.

As for some comments... last I knew, a tribute was a nod to a style, an interpretation, not an imitation.

Beautiful transformation, and good job!

Really like the mood of this one! I would still like to see even brighter edges on the knee, hands and front of face. Up to you, Good luck!