@Pixelherder - bloody fantastic! Love those. Checking out your cghub thread, that's really incredible to see the animated GIFs of the WIP painting. Really inspiring.
Thanks Scooby. It's not my concept no, I fully intend to credit the original artist, I just forgot to bookmark the CGhub page, so I'm trying to find it :)
great stuff guys! high poly after concept of Jake Parker i stumbled over on cghub (http://cghub.com/images/view/64275/) almost done, crits always appreciated