Not bad, but a bit too reliant on DA images...

The only suggestion I would make is maybe make his arms more like the texture of the birdface.

I really like the idea, but i kind of agree with CMYK only in that you could find very similar sources in something like SXC, and it would've been a lot easier for you, author. Anyways, good luck, i really like it!

i too wonder what it would look like if the arms were feathered.like the sky and background images.

i dt like so much of black magic but i feel attracted to "black" art works, this one is simply and fabulous , many congrats,and good luck

Extremely well done. The feeling comes across powerfully.

Nice job with this...what might look neat is to softly lighten areas of the skull directly above the flame...like a slight glow inside.

Can't believe I forgot the source link for the skull.... http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1148994

So riginal, great result.

very nice

must see hi rez, great work,gl author

Congrats for your third place, Woodzstockr!

Congratulations on the top-three place!

Congrats

Congratulations for 3rd

what is this?

Curious as to the title. It looks more like a rotting flower.

Oh, I get it...green thumb, black thumb...

This is really beautiful in high res! It almost seems as though this image could have been used with any source, though. I like the way the stone wall acts as if a cluster of matter surrounding a galaxy. Good job!

EDIT: Nice changeup for style in this contest.

Yeah I know I could of used a white blank canvas and got the same effect but I used the wall for added detail and I was really shooting for originality. I still want to ad more to it but ran out of time.

I am addng more to this so could everyone please hold off on voting until after the deadline?

ok will hold.. good luck with changes.

Edits made. Vote as you will.

nice image.gl

Subtle and very nice!