I worked on my 3rd LP manip with some advice from FOG. DA Link: http://stunner21.deviantart.com/art/Ritual-96354418
The tiger could fit better in there. Also, it doesn't have a shadow. I can understand the man doesn't, since he's below the pillar's shadow, but the tiger isn't.
The tiger doesn't seem like he belongs there, the lighting on him seems odd. The quality of the background image is amazing. With that you need amazing quality everything for it to work, the quality of the the guy+tiger don't fit at all with that background IMO.
There is a shadow for the tiger it was Just lower down for where the piller shadow is, and I did not want to have a conflict between the two. And yea it was hard to find a decent stock to fit with the bg, everything else you see was also added the rocks in the shadows in the far left, the bowl up in front and the other ceramic bowl on the right.
sigh at using photographers work which is not an actual stock in LPs and uploading them to dA, just remember you can't do that sigs isn't a big deal as most people do it anyway, but it's against dA's rules as well anyway to me it kinda doesnt make sense in anyway, but then again it is only third attempt the tiger's back legs should be placed further up, i doubt he's skinnier than the width of the pole. another thing if he's going to be in that shadow, it means he can't have a strong sense of light coming from the right like you've done with it, he'd have to be pretty dark because of the shadows i guess it's alright as an experiment or learning manip techniques and whatnot, but as an overall piece and concept-wise it makes no sense :x
