Deceiver? :3

No... Diss-ever. Put together Dissever.

I see

NO! I DONT know who he is! who *IS* that cockerel!? :)

DUDEski.. This is a nice change in style! very good. I like how you are trying new things. The feathering on dissever's neck and head come out looking really good. Cooliosities.. I SO can't wait till I can visit y'all again and do art , chicken N beer. :)

*wing hugs* Thanks so much for the nice comment, studness. This was a little gift and an attempt at going a little deeper with my art. I'm both pleased and disappointed with how this turned out, though mostly I'm happy with it. I was trying to draw the eye back a bit into the picture as well, just to give it a little more depth. I'm just not good at backgrounds.

It'll be great to see you again too. Chicken n' beer. Oh I know what you wanna do with that chicken. ;}

well, drawing the eye back would have worked, EXCEPT that you need more contrast between the foreground and the background.. so make the land going to the mountains darker as it gets closer to the mountains, and make the mountains dark, and the sky dark, then ake the sun bright, and the shading around the sun darker till it matches the sky in darkness, and leave the trail back to the mountains light.. one of the tools of composition is the use of contrasts.. straight lines vs wavey lines, bright colors versus dark colors, sharp details vs fuzziness.. stuff like that.
Another thing that might have helped is to draw it in landscape mode, instead of portriate mode and to seperate the characters a bit more, since they are dominant in the picture and cover up the background, it makes the background hard to differentiate.

thumbnail sketches too, go a long way in helping you organize your composition before you start on it. it takes a while to learn this stuf and to learn how to see it. You'll get the hang of it though. :)

neat! my buddy has one of those swords. very awesome

Heh there, sexy bird. My gratitude for the comment. If your buddy has one of those swords I definitely wouldn't be arguing with him.

I'm so glad that you have drawn strength from my words. :)

She totally looks like she's going to clobber him. :D

Heed the advice well of using contrasts in your image composition. You can either darken the background, or perhaps deaturate it. Right now it does 'fight' with the foreground for the viewer's eye.

Thanks for the words and the advice, mockingbird of doom! ;) Yes, she's going to kick his chicken butt, if he doesn't shut up. *crows!*

I've changed as much as I can without recoloring the whole thing and I just don't have nerve to do that again. Thanks, as always, for the advice. :) Ctrl F5 to reload.

Oh yes cockerel's yak a lot, they're almost as bad as dimetrodons, heh. Actually that's an interesting little change of style, I think it's very nice work.

My gratitude for the observation and the comment, stud dimetro! I'm trying to evolve my style a bit. I come and go with it and art is an evolution anyway. :)

Two very sexy looking birds there. Man that is an awesome coloring job that you've done. I love the way the eagles head came out.

Thanks, stud gator. I've had very nice words about my eagle head. I think I might have a career in bird portraits. If I can just get them to pay me for it! :D

Yeah, this one took about a week and a half to color, lots of weird stuff going on behind the scenes; and as always, a very good learning experience.