Truly amazing.

awesome work.....but It would be great If I can see some more steps in SBS.....

wonderful paint work.. good luck

Excellent job indeed! I wish I had this much imagination....! But some small details: a high resolution would be wonderful and a more detailed SBS would be helpful for the ones who could learn something from it! Like me....lol! This is really awesome for a game concept! Best of luck!

..woahh.... incredible

well it would be great if you put the lyrics or atleast give a link for the song... Coz this contest is hard to judge without knowing the song or the lyrics...

high res would be appreciated, and a better sbs... Other wise a Very nice fantasy piece.

sbs??!! unbelievable!!

I'm gonna have to agree with the KY man and Tuckinator...a better SBS would be more convincing

looks great

Great image Bad SBS, ... oh, dejavue,..... but its true.

hey thanks for the tips and comments! sorry bout the SBS, my connection crashed.. that was just the very first rough sketch. I'll attempt to post the rest...

Outstanding skills......Ditto on the SBS will wait for an update.....

EDIT:I have voted but personally I am not completely convinced….

superb job man, really cool

dont know what the sogn is soooo to me it just looks like a picture of a troll and nothing more

Much better sbs, I know what you mean about less layers for art, I'm trying to use less and less for digital painting's but it's a hard habit to break!

Here's the music link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rCItI__EGU

very very nice

I found your portfolio on DA, Very nice stuff! You may want to include that this entry wasn't made specifically for this contest though, as it's from jan 08

You're right, the painting is not new. Though it fit the theme perfectly as I was painting it for a song I must admit though that I'm not very familiar with this place, I hope i haven't broken any rules? Again?

Looks like you're good now, just the more details you give, the better off you are.

thanx for linking the music, cmyk....that is some pretty interseting stuff

Great job and excellent band. Why does Finland produce such good metal and goth groups?

Nice Nice nice !

Congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congratulations for 1st, fab

Congrats, awesome work

congrats

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats for 1st

Wow! thank you very much.. not sure I deserve it after I've caused such a mess And congrats to all participants, there were some truly awesome entries here...

Congrats!!

Nice image...just kinda wondering how it relates to the lyrics...

Ehm.....is not the right lyric... XD

Woah.. This is beatiful

beautiful. But kinda confusing, a bit too blurry.

cool image !

wow...someone gave me a "dead can dance" tape years ago, and i fell in love with the music!....thank you for reminding me to look them up!

nice work

I love this ! ^_^

Nice image!

Very cool Image!!

As a work of art I really like this! It's very Neverending Story-ish, and I love how intrigued the little boy seems to be with his book. That said, I'm not quite sure how this fits in with "The Trial". I read the lyrics and I'm just not seeing the connection (but thats me, I won't vote you down because of that). Also, I would rework the girl so that she was a bit more visible. I honestly didn't notice her until I read the SBS. In any event, love this!

great job on the blending and colors

Understand It,

Congrats!

Congrats for your second place with this magical and beautiful entry!

Congratulations for 1st, fantastic pic

congrast

Congrats!

congraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatsssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love this!

this is so lovely! Very nice choice of colors and awesome blending.. Congrats!

Congrats!!

perhaps I can add somekind of background when I get back on wed

awesome

this is really a neat piece.. I'm definately going to wait for the SBS before I vote.. very interesting and different

This image seems very appropriate for the song. I'd love to see an SBS on this, but even as is I love it! The only criticism I have is the shadow of her hair touching the coat's collar. I would clone that out if I were you. In any event, nice work!

it is how YOU see the song, so dont stress I think its a good peice of work goodluck.

this is great - the "construction" looks so real! I could swear it is handy-made, and you just took a picture of it

Really nice and interesting piece. Like it, Love it. Would agree though with magicsteve, I would clone the hair out as well as her helmet strips.

Nice song and nice chop!!! good luck!

awesome; I love this effect; you've done a great job with Alberto Seveso's style

Really nice, i love the way you made up this, so unique and nice looking Viva la vida with colors

Great looking image,Nice work!

this seems like a good start.. i think your a bit hard on the shadows, and the details from the skin are almost invisible. this style of work is VERY hard to make look professional. but you did alright. could use some work though. (i have never really done this type of work before, so i cant really give you any tips on how to truely improve this sorry)

sorry guys, I'm on a computer without photoshop right now, gonna upload sbs+enhance pic tomorrow afternoon.

AMAZING JOB !!! :O

again, please, please view in hires, I know I'ts an awkward reason but I broke my eyeglasses and I can't work on this too much more, SBS is short, but I'm actually thinkin about writing a detailed tutorial and post it here, because I think many are hoping to learn this tequenique.

Nice design!

Looks good.

fantastic artwork

Congrats!

Congrats for your third place!

Congratulations for 3rd, superb pic

congrats

Congrats!

Congrats!

haha.. good interpertation.. Love it. Congratulations!

thanks so much guys

Congrats!!

aaaaahh.. very beautiful song.. thanks for the link author.. about ur image, great work here.. but u could add more shadows.. for eg, at the edge of her right calf, u need to add shadows to blend with the env.. , at her feet u need more shadows because there is too much difference in lighting bw her feet and the ground she has her feet on, that it appears that her feet are floating.. just play with the shadows and blend her well with the env.. gl

edit: my apologies author .. 'bw' was between and 'eg' referred to example.. hope u had a really fun time translating my comment

Aaaahh.. I really love translate English! lol So, if I understand: “env” it’s environment but what about “for eg”? lol Thaks for suggestion, I’ve made shadows a little bit bigger, changing opacity.. what about now? I’m still not really convinced but I will try to change others details afert work, thank you so much!

Nice song and nice picturisation...

Nice job blending the background images...to me, her colors seem too bright for the lighting, but good work over all.

A conflict of lighting, but it IS a beautiful image and very nice interpretation.

beautiful

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Very beautifull.. You should make the colors of the instrument and the girl more blue i think Gretay job!

nice

This is very pretty!

Your lighting looks a bit off on the girl, but other than that this is great work. Love the emotion you get from looking at it. Nice job!

urple. hehehe.. good job.. very queezy entry but I think that is the point LOL

I really like this, but i have major OCD and i notice that the blood splatter on the right hand wall is a little off perpective.. it probably doesn't matter, so i don't think it will be a problem Good luck!!

@ Golem... do ya like my head in the bin lol

hahahaha IT FITS!

Great choice of songs! Blood spatters would look better without the light edges, and I'd put some on the floor too, but it's a cool image.

Great Image. Maybe add some light in the surgical light above.

"Cut for the very first time" LMAO!! huge weird al fan! great idea, and well done chop! I agree about the light edges on the blood, it makes them appear to be holes in the drywall more than blood caked on the wall...

@CMYK will have a play with the blood splatter, I always have trouble using the brushes, im useless at it lol

@Nator i was going to add the light to the table lights but then i would have to change the light in the whole room.. i looked very hard to find images that suited teh lighting of the background lol

i love resurgere!!! awesome... hes got excellent smoke textures, even though he claims they arent that great quality. good entry too btw.

Actually the light that is in this image works very well! Really nice image.

i love weird al!! and an excellent chop!

good image! congrats

woohoo anything will do that gets me talent points lol thanks guys