glad you liked it Dave :) - well the meeting was taking much to long to get a realistic chance to finish the piece, but i may work on it over the weekend and get another cutiepiece done, so its at least not been in vain :)

 ok i put down work about an hour ago and came to post this where it was 11.59 local time. its far from being finished and since i like the pic i may keep pushing it a bit out of challenge of course. good luck on all who still ate on it, rock on and i look forward to see your finals.

 started fleshing out the first details but gave up for its 4.45 after a long day of work already :P may finish the cleanuppass tomorrow, so here goes a little between the updates post

first of all thanks all for the (flattering) feedback. what kind of artist would i be if i don't tell fellow artists what i think when i look at their works :) good work and progress dragon!   firefairies: not really many changes but the point i am up to tonight before i retire will have a short time in morning and then will have to ...

Anders Soth:I'm a bit of a drow fanatic so I might give this a go. The recent Drizzt book covers were way too good to try to compete with so I think I'll have a go at a priestess image.   hehe yep God Lockwood sets the standart how it has to look like when it has to look good. love his works. drow priestress sounds promissing thou ...

nice update. at the end its a question of what story you wanna tell. a hunt, or if the elf is a scout and the bird flys up in sensing upcoming danger... makes it much easier to put things in scene when you tink of the mainplot. :)

:) sweet interaction. as for the lightsetup, you may even dare to boost it more. keylightvalues usually work fine around 0.7-1 fill 0.2-0.3 and rimlight 1.2-2.5 lum. its simulating the hrd effect wich lets ambient/bounced light get you to see a scene out from the shadow in almost in (softened) daylight conditions while the directional ...

much better composition :) good luck on geting your 3d app back to work

Hiya Dragon are you going for a full 3d entry til the end or just a 3d mockup? i know its early wip but compositionwise you can start blocking. basically its about the values, so light can help hugely to get it there. don't know what 3d app you work in but lets hope you get out some clues from my "3dsmax-terminology".  in case ...

Ivy:ha ha ha ha Sacha, it does look a bit like Bush ... I guess I better make it a bit different :P  Your update is beautiful   Dragon, welllll I dooo have to finish the darn thing :) no noes i said bush's elf after the 8 years (of hopeless tries to bring some elvish luck to bush's deeds)  - and of course you keep ...