Saves the best for last BRAVO!!!

Very nice chop damn is to funny hope for the best and good luck!

OMG this is just stunning !!! great work author !!!!

absolutely stunning, I love the way that death is scratching his skull

excellent work

this is so good that I just had to comment again TEACH ME!!!

...no comments.....

Simply superb

awesome job like always, but more dark then usual

cool ....

you're too good!!!! Fantastic image!!

WOW!. Awesome work as usual.

brilliant work..

WOW author another great work

what that kid watch? oh and again very good eyes!

Now that's a fabulous composition! No word of a lie...just brilliant!

I just have to keep coming back and looking at this entry, it's awesome

WOW

Bingo!!!!

theres a tiny speck on the third fold of the right hand in the fabric where the corner meets the center of the right red glare on the gnome of the back side that comes to the forward shadow... giggle snort.. Oh take the prize already you goob

EDIT: GOOB is Reference to GOOBER.. chocolate covered peanut eaten at movie houses all over the world, one of my favorites.. it is not an Insult.. don't want a mob after me

Very Cool. GL

Great great great!!! well done!

Great piece of artwork == expression is great and the overall look is stunning

Yes, I agree: stunning, excellent, superb ....!!! love the rich colours you used and the little guy giving directions is just the perfect perfect touch!!

Bravo!

great job and I think I know who the author is, the unique style and always does terrific work. Good luck!

Edit: I was right! You can't hide the humor anywhere.

bravo!!! bravo!!!bravo!!! this is amazing work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent work

wow, I really love this entry.... !

here you are doing it again, very great piece

AMAZING!!! Good job!!

Do skulls get itchy? This is an outstanding entry.

You were holding out weren't you...lol...Totally amazing. !!!!

Very nice...GL

out of the contest i dont like this ) it to good there should be another website for drawers joking again

YAY! FInally! I was hoping you would enter one this week! Brilliant! FUN! and well done

I wanna do this kind of stuff when I grow up. Terrific entry!

Holey crap!!! Well i hope this takes first place or i will be bitterly disappointed Stunning work author, im in absolute aww of your work (im not saying goodluck, cause i know you will win ) lol

This may be your best one yet, my friend...some fine work here!

WOW! THIS IS AMAZING! I'm speechless, SBS is perfect, Highest marks I ever gave to anyone on this site and I'm not wishing you good luck cause you don't need it! !st place IMO!

Just awesome.

Fantastic work and great SBS....congrantulations

100% pure awesomeness

Ummm errr: GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for yelling but really FABULOUS

Amazing, beyond words! I'm in awe I can only dream of being able to do this! Congratulations!

Absolutely fantastic...masterpiece!!

Amazing draw! Really great entry. Congrats author you did a really good job there!

Great job!

What a nice concept.I am always suffering,seeing Your images.Don't get me wrong,dear author.This is super work and good image.But,when i imaging the same idea,created and rendered in 3d space,or even using carefully selected textures,this one really looks so-so.I hope,that You find time and enthusiasm,to try Your luck in max or another 3d app.Especially,that You have composition and cartoon creation sense.Images like this,for example:http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=563146,simply looks better.

jaskier, I have seen your reference, it is awesome but that was created completely in 3d using texture, lighting render etc. How can anyone use source image with 3d rendered scene, he can only use source for texturing. It mean firstly he has sketch, then create character model then finally render this 3d space to picture which is fill with source in photoshop or some other program..No doubt author has created amazing work using source only. why it should be compare to 3d rendered scene.

speechless, love the way you make your entries, they all have a story behind them, BTW I hope his story doesn't have a happy ending, hope he doesn't find what he's looking for :P

congrats

What can I say, it's wonderful, Congrats

Congrats!

Congratulations, celebrations, well done Keep up the good work

Nice Job and Congrats!

Congrats... And Excellent SBS (lots of efforts in tat )

Thank you all, people, for your vote and kind comments, more than appreciated! Jaskier, thanks for your comment. Not completely sure though if I totally get what you want to say. In this entry -or my work so far- it's not my goal to make such hyperrealistic image possible, although in my style I do like to think about how it còuld be in 3D. But I'm more than aware that this is far from "real" (in case you'd make this in ie 3Ds Max). I just try to make my own interpretation of the source image I see and that can be done in many ways. Your example is absolutely great, but I'm not sure why it should be compared with above entry. It has another technique, another goal. You bet, I'd like to do more with 3D, but to get to such level as in your example, you need to know a LOT of the program, modelling, rendering, use of light, etc. I'm realistic enough to know that I'm far from that knowledge so far. SO for now the least I can do is use PS and try to improve those skills. But I appreciate your comment, thanks again!

Congrats!

Congratulations.

congrats

Congrats Waz, FABULOUS job!!!!!

A very very fair win! Huge Congrats for your great work!

Congrats!!

congrats!!!!!!!

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats! I would have been really surprised if you didn't win! Great job!

Congrats!! Very well done!!

congrats for 1st

congrats

Late for comment , but i love thiss great job.

Sweet image. Love the way you put all the objects. Great color.

very nice

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo moody and ghoulie and just over all wonderful.. the fangs would be too much if you hadn't made them so subtle.. AWESOME CATCH... good luck author

very nice concept, good luck =) clean cut out job!

awesome... great output.. just luv it.. definitely high rating.. gl

great work!!!

great entry...high vote from me...nice mood! ...good luck!!

with sword is some escher-tricks very cool! good luck!

Nice! however... the skill does not look like its coming out of the sand, it should not be opaque at all, would look better solid with just slightly fuzzy edges.

Great

Great work.

nice mod very nice idea good luck!

I love cheesy!!! LoL!! Nice chop!! Good luck!

nice work on those teeth and the sand

...really expecting such type of work....awesome.......

Ha - well I would not have picked it as underwater if you had not mentioned it in the SBS.. GL.

Looking at it again.. wouldnt we see some of the blade through the nasal cavity?? Maybe?

i love this one............grt work...............

really nice work but I agree with animmax needs something to give more of an underwater vibe...

very nice idea and execution

I will get to some fixing ...tx everyone for suggestions

Looks very good imo

excellent worked author

Great mood! very good!

yeah man it's great!!

nice

very creative

I like what you did with the skull and especially like the way you have it buried in the sand. Nice entry.

well done... good luck

creepy dude lol

yea good man i love it

with the blade is great!!!

Nice chop!

WOW ! This is AWESOME !

Nicely done! Great composition author good luck!

Nicely done.

Great job!

congrats

Congrats!

Congratulations, celebrations, well done Keep up the good work

Nice work and congrats!

Congrats!

Congratulations.

congrats

Congrats! It looks really good!

Congrats!!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congratulations!

Congrats!!

congrats

Shees i like this very much good luck!

Wow, Jason and the argonauts, nicely done

EDIT: Nice to see you back author

Creative

Very creative idea!Well done!

a lot of work here, good job! GL

Smart, reminds me on the movie Army of Darkness . Pretty good result, but if you can give the soldier a spine and knees, would do him good . Good luck!

Fun! Do the Thigh bones look a little long to you though?

nice. way you made it is awesome maybe make the skull darker and more brown (looks slightly to bright). but still creative and awesome. GL

the neck disc are a little to thick, nice work, good luck and welcome back =)

Thanks for comments and suggesstion.

EDIT : Added spline, knee fixed and reduce brightness.

This one looks great!

Really nice author, it looks like a real skeleton warrior

oo yes he/she (shield conceals it hehehe) will kill you! good luck!

My favourite skeleton. Pleased to meet him again

Great! work on the swords highlight tho.

Fantastic!!

Reminds me of the old movie Jason and the Agronauts

robvd... read my mind.. High Five to this image.. great job

Cool image. I'd put the colour overlay over the shield too as it doesn't seem to quite fit in, and work a little more on the floor..

very nice.this reminds me some old hollywood movies for greek mythology "Jason and the golden fleece"

Nice work - there are a few inconsistencies in the anatomy of the skeleton, but thats if your looking for the real thing.. Its still a nice bit of work. I would add another long bone to the lower leg just for a little bit more realism.. and as mentioned the spine is too thick. GL

Fantastic job !!

Thanks to all for nice comments and suggestion, reduce spline size, added bone on both legs, made color adjustment to shield and some minor changes to ground

Legs look much better!! Looking at the hi res - you have a few strays above the shoulders and some around the bottom of the ribcage..

looks like a WINNER to me

great chop!!!!

great work author!

wonderful work.. gl

I love this one a lot

ahahahahha, I love it!

very good

I thought this entry was much better when I thought you created the skeleton from the source, but it looks like you didn't Still a great entry.

Excellent!! Good luck!

Ory, don't think, see sbs carefully, complete skeleton created from skull element using warp and free transform. Only shield is external. If you mean using reference picture, then it is simply reference, how could you draw skeleton exactly without any reference.

As you said I did'nt used source, would you please prove that how I did not used.

This entry PSD file has approx 58 layers, including highlight, shadow, adjustment layers and it took around 10 hours to complete.

10 hours... Damn. I dont think I would have the patience..

very nice!! great chance of top3

Greta!, Just Great

very nice job mate

Harryhausen would be proud. Good job!

gl

wow, this great author, good effort and good luck

Cool!

reminds me of my life drawing class. good job on the skeleton; its feet could use a better reference though

nice one man i like it good tutrial olso

brilliant work. goodluck. top vote from me

cute

Nice entry.

Good one.

congrats

Congrats!

Congratulations, celebrations, well done Keep up the good work

Congratulations once again for the third place

congrats

Congrats dear friend!

Congrats!!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!!

congrats

lookin good

wow!!! great one!

yeah man i like it! good luck

Wow!!!Great lighting!

SBS looks good, image is nice too . The only thing I might reconsider is that if you put a sword in paper/wood, I guess you'd push the paper more down . But ok, tiny nitpick, nice result! Good luck!

wow.. GREAT.. one question though.. and this is a super tiny nit pic.. is THAT BLOOD coming out of the map.. your texture and color pallet shy's away from realism so it doesn't really matter.., I would think the map would go into the wood.. but that's neither here nor there.. the Dali Dark Feel is wonderful.. good luck

edit: wow, looks great

Nice job! My only suggestion would be to try a bit of plastic wrap on the wax to make slightly glossier. Good luck.

It does look really good, well done, you put a good amount of workinto this too

Nicely done...

Removed the splinters (leftovers from before the map) and added plastic wrap to candle. CMYK, where were you two days ago when I was fighting with this? lol Thank you!

nice look to this one

Nicely done

like the candle, good luck =)

Nice job!

nice

great, good luck

16 steps to the right....we are there LOL good luck nice idea!

Very nice Great looking image!

very good chop

This is very strong entry !!! I do like it very much

I like the mood on this one

your composition has a soft feel to it; very nicely done

That is really cool... well done author..... good luck

looks great.. gl

very good.

very good

Impressive stuff. Well done..

now thats what im talking about

great!!! That's lateral thinking!!!!

Nicely done

Love this !! Good work !

Simply brilliant! Good luck!

This looks like a top three entry to me.

Nice image.

Nice! Pirate's plan! Will it work?

congrats

Congratulations, celebrations, well done Keep up the good work

you did very well

nice mood and great idea well done i like it good luck!

nice work

Damn - that looks impressive - where is the hi res?? Also the source for whatever he is standing in.. I will also say - wheres the source image.. please dont say its just the skull?? No knife?? no coins?? Will hold vote for now.. GL.

Thank you all for your comments. The boat was downloaded from this site a long time ago...I do not have a link for it

Creative

i like it! nice

Great feel...

Wow, this is a great chop!!

great

WOW!Great mood!

Ooooooo, very well done, I love Mythology, good luck

high marks.. very sourcy LOL.. good luck!!!!

I didn't want to continue the pirate's idea....I wanted to do something else to be more creative and to try to pass the first thought

Good job! He should have skeleton hands, though...

I thought of that but in mythology we find all kinds of creatures such as centaur that is half horse and half human

Skeleton hands would be nice, but thats just me being pick, good job.

Great job.

nice

This is a prime example of why I love this place. Great imagination! Good job

I like it... good luck

thats creepy ;p

yeaaa.death is coming form the skyes

great stuff!!!

Love this image, great work !

O like this one! Kinda legend style artwork! Author great job and good luck!

Realy nice, love it Mystic looking.

congrats

Congratulations, celebrations, well done Keep up the good work

you did very well