Nice image. How have you used the source here?

Step 7 on, -- the head and neck plus the legs and talons. distorted to fit.

got it! nicely done

Very nice, good luck author

OH WOW! You should turn this into a cartoon!

Love the sense of movement and flow to the dragon.

Fantastic creation...Dragon body is top notch but the wings have to be the same color or similar color as body...now they pop up to much from the body but at the same time they are to integrated with the background...Just an idea author

um... my comment was a compliment... I was meaning it's an excellent shot that I can see a cartoon made out of this character! Geeze...

Very nice image best of luck

Great fantasy image, interesting the the wing closest is a bit transparent, tho. Very nice painting and integration of the images.

great work boss

more like glowing light than fire effect - more like painting not a photorealistic...

Beautiful....

very pretty!

Wonderful as always...

the good thinges ,is good not becaous we see it good

Nice

Fantastic birdy...good luck author

good luck author

beautiful outcome, good luck author.

beautiful work

Nice construction GL

I really like what you did. Keep it up

Very nice indeed GL

This I truly LOVE! At first sight as thumbnailpic it´s like one of those BRC, but when you see it here, it´s a fantastic work of mixing BRC:tecnique that are usually so used, and still keep the source. That is great!

it is very nice work

Gorgeous work...

nice work author

Beautiful, neat, clean and full of effort!

not a photorealistic - more like painting/3d.., transformation playing...

Stunning little creature and greatly imaginative ... wonderful work!

Beautiful platinum jewel

Very nice metalwork GL Author

Very interesting creation and nice selection of colors...Lace part make a small distraction do...Any how, this is very cool work...Best of luck author

Sooooo beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It might be the background makes it look like that...I might change it. Thank you

Ok..changed the background

Hmm, a kind of Venetian mask! Very beautiful and neatly done.

Thank you

I think you should add some soft texture to the mask itself, it looks a bit too plain. Overall it's really good, great job.

Agree with Akassa but i love it !

this s painting style - not a photorealistic...

I like that this is not a totally symmetrical/mirror image entry. Even if this is not meant to be photorealistic, I do feel that where the lower part of the mask shows through the lace should be stronger.

Very unusual and different concept.

Very nice work ... GL Author

The gold swirls could probably use a little shadow, but overall very nice work, really creative use of source.

Can you use the word 'Ford'? Maybe just slightly tweak it.. other than that i can't find anything to fault.

Good work

Edit: LOL.. good answer Author

Ponti, I don't see why not, it's just a photo of a car hood. Besides, it would have been too hard to change it to Nixon.

LOL Nator...the car shot was a great find...right color & angle. And you gotta admit that old Ford logo has stood the test of time, just like the Coca-cola logo!

ford-chinese version 2012

Looks like a Fiat to me - but what do I know, I'm just a girl...

wrong shadow on the dragon - perfect montage and good reflection...

Very cool and creative. While admittedly over-grand for a today's Fords, your hood ornament merely replaces another equally ornate one from the 1930's in your source image. As locxoul noted, you retained the source shadow which included an under-belly opening that your replacement ornament doesn't have/fills in. The reflection is an intriguing addition since your source doesn't have one. It should probably be more subtle but more problematic is that its perspective is more like a shadow than a reflection.

I would've liked to see a sharper line where the dragon meets the car. But having said that this is a really nice source find and really nice execution. I know the reflection isn't supposed to be there but it looks damn good there now.

Lovely work. Like the way that you have done the red/orange colour over a portion of the dragon ... ties it in beautifully. And it is cool that the Ford logo has and almost dragon skin texture to it. Well done!

Top entry author...Very well made creation...Best of luck

Good idea...like the colors and fits in perfectly

@ Dan Lundberg & Chalty: Look at the source pic. It certainly does have a reflection, which I removed, so the dragon reflection absolutely belongs. Fixed the shadow...thanks.

distort a little bit more on the reflection following the car contour ll make this a perfect reflection - still ve wrong drop shadow of the dragon that s still ve flat shadow... but this got me 75%vote 4 the idea/update.., gi author - this ll stand againts doorknoker 4 photorealistic lookin...

Great image, shame about the ford badge but you`ve managed to make it passable well done and GL