The "pedestal" the dragon is sitting on lacks depth. Even in high res, the dragon appears to be floating, rather than sitting on it. The shading under the dragon is causing this, as you have dark shadows on his belly, but the pedestal is light colored. The diagonal light shining down from the upper LH corner compounds the inconsistency.

Edited! Decided I didn't need sleep and agreed with Mossy so did what I could ... it is now a vertical image and I have done work on the pedestal to make it stand out more ... part of the darkness on the bottom of the dragon is because is heating up
I don't have time to change the SBS but at least that way you can get an idea of what it looked like originally

Nice entry....Love the dragon... good luck. The colors are just beautiful...

Excellent work, terrific sbs too, nice to see the original in the sbs, I think the edited version is much better though... GL

fantastic work.., dragon is perfect and beautiful. good luck author..

I agree the edited version is much better, puts greater emphasis on the dragon which is so well constructed! Definitely check out the high res!

Fabulous piece of work. Your SBS is amazing too. Work on a dragon is master piece. Great drawing but after that fantastic usage of the source image. This goes instantly to my favorites...very very well done

awesome! lots of work on this one

Amazing!

OUTSTANDING! Can really tell this took quite a bit of time and coffee to put together. Good Luck author.

Thank you so much everyone!
I almost didn't submit this one as I was running out of time and, yes, you are right Rod it took a lot of coffee!
This was something I have had in mind for a long time (I played with drawing the dragon a while ago and gave up); when I saw the seeds on the bun I felt it was time to go for it asI thought they would work quite well for the scales!

That was awsome....congrtulations for second.....!

Congrats Arca, it is one of the best dragons ever made in Pxleyes

congrats...!

Congrats

Congrats on 2nd place!

Congrats... Nancie....

Congrats!!

great art! congrats

love the hair, very nice, good luck!

good idea gl author

wow good really good work

Thanks

This could be used as an illustration of a china fairy tail

cool work...gl

good luck author

nice work man!! but i can put a background, do u think? GL congrats!

I like the colors here, and yeah a background would have been a tad better, he looks a little lonely all by himself, but still good job =)

I have not had much time and would not do anything .. and as a sculpture stands more so, thank you very much for your comments, I am very happy with my work.

Needs a background only because the original image is part of a building. It looks naked this way.

can be right, but I think that the entry can be assessed by itself, is a copy of a work of art, not a wallpaper

Just a wee suggestion for next time ...try to have the source and the background image better matched resolution ... your idea is very good but with the high quality of the Dragon and the low quality of your background image it just doesn't work ... If you have any trouble or don't know what I am talking about feel free to PM me and I will see if I can help. Very good idea though!

Thank you very much for your comments