Breathtaking. Beautiful colors, subtle, enchanted feeling. Very very nice. One of my favorite pictures around here. One small crit: the highest yellow leafs distract a little bit due to the contrast with the background, but not enough to not love this piece. +9/9

hehe, very interesting pic, though, to be honest, even among the real deer and relatives, females aren't known for sporting much in the way of antlers... hehe, but that's beside the point... keep up the good work!

Funny, emagery.
Excellent painting. Great colours.

very remarkable (^_^) i can feel the heat coming from the artwork

Great atmosphere, and I quite like the idea of giving her antlers, as unprecendented in the animal kingdom as it is. If you were to work on this more, I would suggest using some other brushes to partially obscure and break up the stamped look of the leaves.

Very nice!!! Great composition!

Beautiful lighting and composition!
Carlos

Cool work!
coool atmosphere, nice colors and light

Thanks for all of the support and advice! I've gotten alot of criticism about the leaves from other people already. I like them, but breaking them up a bit to remove the stenciled look is a good idea which I am considering.

GijsRoest - good point about the highest yellow leaves. I can tone them down.

emagery, chickenfingers - The antlers, yes.... I got really excited about this idea when it first came to me. I thought about what a forest fire needed to make it more personal, and thought of a deer. Then, as it often does, my mind wandered to beautiful and mysterious women. When I did a search on deer for antler shape references, I found that no female deer sport a nice rack, so to speak... I could have sworn that Bambi's mother at least had small antlers. Still, I loved the idea so much that I decided to go with it. Nowhere is it written that female forest spirits can't have antlers.

Thanks again and keep the crits coming!

It's BEAUTIFUL!!! I HATE the signature - please, I beg of you, make it incredibly small and put it in the right hand corner or just delete it altogether. It's very distracting and the signature is very unorthodox, not in a good way either. +10

great use of colors! and contrast.
nice concept too!

Good work with the colors and lighting.

Nice idea!

Hi David ,

Nice work

nice work.
good colors.

great stuff nice contradictions

Thanks for the support everyone! I actually like the signature, but I may move it a little when I make some other minor adjustments to this painting.

Oh Wow, this is fantastic. The colours, composition, crop, atmosphere all spot on.

i like this one
great colors and good idea
so smart

Good concept. These photoshop leaves're killing me,man! C'omon make your own leaves brush - it will take a second
Good light and colors
7+

so beautiful and inspiring!

seriously great piece really resonates with me this scene and feel and suppose its a homely feeling 9/9