Whow. AWESOME! Supremely sweet work, I just love colors and overall look of it!!!! only tiny change I would make is to possibly darken the top of the eye a little bit, it looks like the green feathers above it would cast a bit of a shadow, and make the eye look less like its sticking out of his head. But that didn't stop me from giving you a great score

great entry!

quite a beauty!

it looks like a wood sculpture of parrot,....

Remarkable, Extraordinary, Phenomenal! Fragmenting the chest more, might have increased the metal-feathers effect. Top one, regardless.

Amazing! Beautiful! and all the adjectives related to beauty....! Well done...good work...good luck!

Great! The armor is excellent

This is so pretty! That little bit of bling on the beak was just the right touch. Well done!

Congrats on 1st place, Chalty! Beautiful squawk box.

Congrats!..Awesome job

a well deserved win!

Congrats...nicely done!

nice....

It's a very artistic and clever way to use the original source and make into totally different outcome. Great use of colour combination too. Well done

very beautiful

very artistic and clever,must have taken some time well done

love the work! good luck author

very nice...lots of work in positioning... gl

great work

Lovely parrot portrait

Congratulations

thanks everyone for all comments and votes

Congrats, very well done

Beautiful entry....congrats for your first place.......

thanks madmemonty and George55

Beautiful blend work, the texturing is very nice. Well done!

Really nice job with the texture on the ear, but blur the sharp edges on the black stripes.

nice work

ty all , did a little blur........

Great job on this with that texture!

Congrats!!

ty all for the votes

ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh............woow.......... always wanted a "Parrosus", where can I get one?

Harry Potter will be red-eye when I ride a Parrosus

nice colors, great blending.... almost PERFECT!!! (only feel that it the mane, tail and wings were more flowing... like hair, but this is only my personal preference)

Stunning ... excellent work, wonderful creation! If I could I would fav it 2 or 3 times!

OH THANKS Glad you guys like it so much!
I do see where you are coming from aheman, but I really wanted to stick with the totally feather approach. Thanks for your input though, much appreciated

Beautiful creation, wonderful color!! Well worth the effort you put into it! The revise makes it even better!

Wonderfully thought out and done.. AWESOME!!!

Excellent image!

Wonderful colours,nice reflection,it's a fantastic creation !

nice nice

nice color combination!

this looks like a cool animal
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NICE... WELL DONE but agreed with aheman. The flowing problems because there's a minor shadows in my opinion.

And this is just my input, Author: the Rim Lights should never be 100% white. Photographers will know about this, even if it's directly hit from the sun, there will be a little yellowish or even reddish for the rim lights.

Still, top notch blending, Author! High votes! Good Luck!

Beautiful composition, nice colors and wonderful creation.

Very nice work!!

Magnifique !

Thanks everyone!!!!

Hayato, thanks that was a good call, I updated the background so the light has more of an orangey glow, and is not so pristinely white.

Amazing!!!!

Love the bright colors author!..
amazing job!!!.

Amazing work, I sure wish it was real =)

hahaha ME TOO!!!! I want one!!!!

great work....awesome....

Absolutely stunning!

Fantastic work author.......... welcome back

Way Ti Go Author. Beautifully Mastered on the Coloring and Blending Work

Haha Thanks!!! and yes I've been away, was SUPER busy with work and just didn't have enough spare time to finished anything I was proud to enter, but I should have some time for a while now glad to be back!!!

Great chop

WOW WOW WOW! i don't like the head, but wow wow wow!

Excellent work.....Best of Luck Author.

Congrats!! Well done!

Congrats Robert lovely work.... I want one

Thanks everyone!!!!!

it was obvious! a huge CONGRATULATION from me!

Congratulations,well done !

this is really creative..i like what u have done with a pretty difficult source image..there's a couple things that could improve it a little..some of the tree's and bushes are not masked too well..the other thing is the clouds, one of them has a blown out white area on it and the other is under exposed and looks too grey..just my opinion tho..the creativity makes me kinda forget about these nitpicks..GL Author!

Great work

Great work author and very unique way of thinking...extra points from me for usage of the source image to the max...well done

Thanks for all of your comments. fatz8016, I noticed the bad masking too after I posted. I'll have it tweeked by Friday. Thanks for looking.

I couln't wait. Here's a better one.

This one was great! Great job, Poss!

Congrats.., its a good entry

Congrats on 3rd place