Like this a lot Grim. the atmosphere you created is quite special, as always. ghotic and melancholic^^. it would not be out of place on a cd cover^^. I particularly like the expression on the girl, ii's like an invitation to come to her world^^.

Personnaly I prefer the wings this way, they look more natural. but I quite liked the colors on the previous one. When I look at it full size there's a a bit of bright, clear blue tone on the sky which perturb a bit the the feel of the pic. ( but maybe it's just a problem with my monitor^^)

Just by curiosity... I noticed that in a lot of your work, your image are often dominated by one colors or by a gradation... it's not a reproach (I do it too^^ ) but I think it'll be great if you played with more colors, to still have different colors for each elements of your compo... or maybe just use a dominant color then just add a touch of contrast with another strong color just to disturb things a little...

just some thoughts...

I agree that the wings look more natural in this one. But I am completely stumped when I try to decide which coloring I like better.

Thanks guys :D.. your both right about those wings.. they were bugging me in the first version, but im much happier with them now!

Lucy.. i think i know what you mean about the sky, i threw a bit of blue and cyan into the highlights! I've always been a fan of mono-tone and duo-tone artwork and so thats often a major factor in the way my images turn out, it's also a bit of lazyness. It's much faster (and simpler) to produce these manipulation images using this technique. I do most of my chopping up in normal image colours.. then at some point i'll flip over to B&W and finaly colourise at the end!

But maybe just for you i will do my next one in standard colour!

*thumbs up*

Graeme, oh yes, the wings now have a natural looking placement. This one looks great to me and is already in my desktop image folder. The image is pleasing to the eyes in a dark, disturbed way. High marks from me. :c)

Hot diggidy! An awesome image. You're putting these images together so well, everything fits. The look on her face, the shadowing. Its a 10/10 from me.

For he's a Jolly good fellow!

Wow. This is incredible. I like this a lot. It would make a great cover for a vampire book. :)) Who's the model? I give it a 10. Awesome. Sarah :)

Hi, it's me again. I checked out your un-edited versions of this...wow...you really did a heck of a job. Your model sure is a cutie. Is she your daughter? She looks very young. I really like this piece. Very nice indeed. 10 from me. Sarah

It's amazing what you did with the photos, really amazing and impressive, i love it

i liek this image.. very good :) ... was tryin hard to decide which one i prefered more out of the two, but i think i finally settled on this one.. although i liked the other one coz it looked like she was hiding more. well done

thanks guys and gals.. it was a nice image to put together..required me to paint some of the image in photoshop by hand, not something i do that often.. so it was a interesting image technicaly for me! The girl who wishes to remain nameless, is someone who saw my work and requested an image to be made from one of her photos!

You've created an amazing atmosphere here, great work! Brilliant contrast of images.

Has got to be my favorite angel image of yours, wings really fit well. Christ Grim you're too good at this.

Some amazing work here, straight into my favs :)

Really nice image, already on my desktop!!! Well done!

U rock

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