Why, hello there. I am so happy to meet you!

this is too awsome. -8 for cloning and masking issues in the BG ;P

did I tell you this was awsome.

Fragile, beautiful. Real and impossible!

Looks great! Well done!

Amazing. It could be that I am one of those fantasy nerds, or it could be that these entries are all just sooooo awesome, but I gave out three 10s in this H2H, and this is one of them.

Awww, cute! I especially love the wings.

Omg, I just noticed the baby dragon in the egg ...

That's superb!!

WOW
Very good. One of the best in a contest with a lot of very food entry's. I'm impressed.

Tutorial material.

excellent, the egg is rocking!

Ahh....she's waiting for her Icefire! :)

Truly stunning work - I adore the blue color, the delicacy of the wings, the frog feet clutching the egg, the wonderful rendition of that lovely, elongated head. She's just beautiful.

Love the transparent wings. (Or are they translucent?)

Oh wow this is awesome! I absolutely love all the details

Wow, it´s really beautiful! I love it! :)

i love the color, nice work

OHHHHHHHHH !!!What a beautiful creature !!! Wonderful work!!!!!

awesome! love thye transparency of teh wings

I find the leg a bit mono chromatic blue, but the translucent wings are gorgeous!

Very impressive little thingy, great overall look and feel.

This is awesome. Great choice of color, great composition and awesome photoshop work. The transparency in the wings is perfect. Fantastic work.

Lovely work. I like the semitransparent wings and the colors are beautiful. You should be very proud of this.

very good, but too blue

Cool! I'm so glad someone actually recognised her name!

Unfortunately I couldn't find the quote I based her on in time to put it in the caption, but here goes:

"Pulsing veins were outlined briefly in the stretched membrane of her wings. Then, like dye spilled in water, colour flowed through them. Her wings went from transparent to translucent to a rich sparkling blue,...but the word 'blue' had taken on a new meaning in the brilliance of her scales." - Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship.

And thanks everybody for the great comments!

This H2H is rediculously good...

That said, I love the transparency in the wings.

Well done !

It is hard to pick the best one; I have it narrowed down to two. Good work, It would be interesting to see what the sores pics were. Or did you use a 3D program?

Whhhhhooohw! Great is a small word for this, awsome should bearely get to his nose and magnificent is the one that almost fills the glass.Really love this, my desktop is now greatfull to you! Hats off!

I think the eye look particularly life-like...awesome

What a cool little dude!

this is amazing, great work. 10/10

I love the blues and greens in this one.

So pristine, I love it. Beautiful job.

Wow. You've got some hot competition there, but the photorealism of this is spectacular! There's a couple of masking areas on the right wing (left if you're the dragon that could maybe be fixed up a bit - other than that this is great! Good luck :)

Darling! Where can I get one?

Very well done, I think it's the best of this contest! Amazing work was put into this.

Very good. The picking up of the egg adds to the believability.

Wow. Very nice. Wow. The coloration is great. I would have loved to see the original sources. Wow.

Absolutely stunning...well done!

this head to head was everything i dreamed it would be

Wow...this picture gets more charming every time I look at it.

OooOOOoo, I am glad I followed the link to this! Wonderful image, great colors.

So beautiful!