Wow, that's just wonderful. Great job, author! But I can't check the high-resolution as you suggested. Seems like you forgot to add it.

Great idea and wonderful execution.

Great job, the background is beautiful

This is other example of your ability to create something beautiful from a source so difficult to work with. Good luck!

thanks for all comments.
dear fabter thanks a lot for the reminder.

Great job , saw the SBS. Is not for anyone!
GL!

Very Nifty Creature

Your creativity and talent are amazing, great work here.

although the original source is not very visible..

Great photoshop! makes me wonder what you will find in the woods nowadays

lovely

Wonderful, stunning and just down right incredible ... I am without internet right now so I am at a cafe ... just have time to say what a great job you have done!!!

Simply great!

nice work on this , well done.

Wowwww nicely done!!!!!!

Great, great work!!!!

Very nice imagination as usual, this creature looks realistic. The highlight on the skin from the source is very helpful here. However, I see some problems with anatomy. The head of the snake is not natural, because snake's eyes are above its mouth (you can refer to this link: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/images/animal-kingdom/reptiles/snake/morphology-venomous-snake-head.jpg) and both the two creatures have a part of the neck that is much smaller than the other parts. I don't think they are strong enough to handle the head .
Congrats in advance ^^

@langstrum, your comments are always helpfull, my friend... It keeps me improving always... Thanks a lot for taking ur time ....

Congratulations! Fantastic creation.

Congratulations, my friend

Congrats Anoop awesome work

Congratulations one more time....... good work.....!

wow cool work! congrats!!!

Congrats! Great entry!

Congraaaaaaaaats brilliant work

Machaaa congrats

Very creative. Good luck. Nice SBS btw.

WOO HOO! (sbs has only one step?!?!) hehehe

Yup, one long SBS

suggestions:
1) add nostrils
2) add eye's pupil
3) lift ears more upright (look more fierce)
4) some smoke coming out of mouth n nostrils
5) add a darker, gloom-doom background will enhance the atmosphere

Great DI work

Thanks aheman I made some changes

BWHAAA HAAAA HAAAA HAAAA..... lovely changes .. now he's all worried and sad.. hehehe.. LOVE IT... still as great as the original author.. WOO HOO HOO HOO

Hehe..he is worried cos he is trying to get some fire out and no luck! Either that or he needs a tick tack for his stinky breathe ahahhaha ,,,,awww my poor dragon :p

What else to say, looks amazing! His expression makes me feel it's scared, is it? xD

Akassa..he is like going : "cough, cough, cough...no fire" hence the lookon his face :p lol

Wow! Brilliantly done. Nice imagination to use various parts of the source the way you did for textures. Not sure I would ever have the patience to do such work. Really nice job!

Awsome work!!!! SImply Flawlessss...... hope he get's well soon :P hehe

Tons of patience doing this contest, nice work, good luck!

Nicely done.... I like the changes made to the first image.... good luck...for patience and creativity.....

the best part of the competition, is to have fun, express your ideas freely....

nice improvements from previous, congrats

awesome

Incredible work on blending and choosing the parts! Great job!!!

very good , nice sbs

Great work!

He's got cough, I guess. Most of the dragon was done very well but somehow the skin on the chest is not fitted to the body. Nice job in overall, and it's interesting to see the battle of dragons in this contest. Best of luck to you

Congratulations, Loopy

Congrats

Thank you

Congrats on the second place

congrats.. knew this is Top 3 stuff

Congrats !!!!

Might want to add some glow from the flames, otherwise it's a great job!

Beautiful work.... good imagination and creativity.... good luck!

The dragon is wonderful

amaaaaaaazingggggggg

Great!

Beautiful dragon, amazing work on the wings

Harry POTTER!!! hehehe.. (sorry, there's just been a bazillion of commercials on TV with Harry Potter.. LOL) Great JOB!!

wonderful work... The flames needed a little more work... Still goes my fav

Now that your dragon acts in battle, very great. It's quite strange to me that your dragon has no ... hand, because the rest looks like the common dragon, except that part. The flame is too straight, that' why Anoop said you need to work more on it, I guess. Also, since this flame is strong, you should see the light on the wall and the soldier. The background looks great, too, but if the color is opposite to the dragon (such as orange, red, etc) , you'll get a better effect. Best of luck to you

thanks all for the comments..
>Minh (Langstrum)..hehehe...I really forgot about the hand and no time left to reedite it, ah you are completely right about the light on the wall, I should had noticed it ...! that was really my bad...yeah I think I should had changed the color of the BG too....thank for your comment.

ongratulations, Dek!

I meant Congratulations LOL

wow congrats! cool dragon you have there!

Congrats!!!

Congrats on the 3rd place..

Very Cool Portrait good luck

Interesting, but too visually busy. All the ephemera seems added just for volume, rather than artistic enhancement...

Love the effect in this one. Good luck.

Beautiful...

Lovely...

wonderful overall... agrees with mossy b.. but only at the lower part... GL

She looks like an alien, the pattern is a bit too busy but I don't think that's the problem. I was thinking that you used an image of Alanis Morissette. Very well done. Best of luck to you

Fascinating work. Personally, I don't find it too busy... something enchanting and appealing to it. She looks like a modern day Mona Lisa! Great work Author.

Many thank to all for dropping in and leaving a comment or favoring my entry

Congrats on the 4th place.... a beautiful job

nice job.., for more finishing up.., use the smudge tool with pressure 20-30 with hard rounded brush..., (the tail area I suggest.) good luck to you

Thanks Anoop for your suggestion. So simple, I think it looks better now (I hope so).

Lovely, looks like water color painting

Thanks Cornelia. I wanted to draw a cockatoo for long time, and I thought, well, I think the time has come to do it. I like the effect of the smudged and overlayed layers.

The flowers that you made in the back scene is much more detail and sharp compared with the main object so it looks like out of focus. Maybe if you use dodge and burn tool more on the bird to increase the level of shadow and highlight, it will look better. Nice job, tho, and thanks to you now I know what kind of bird is cookatoo . Good luck to you.