You really did a great job on your scene marsyas. The steam coming off of the pot helps to bring things to life.
As far as this challenge goes, my 3 main worries were ( or still are )
You, sasquatchpoacher, and stumpf.
This challenge has brought out some really great pieces and it’s fun to see everyone’s ideas come to life.
Good luck.
Hello Geoff,
I really like your image. Good luck for you!
Cheers
Ralf Stumpf
Excellent work! Well done and good luck!
Excelent work!. I learned a lot from this. 
Good luck!
Awsome Work Buddy! Good Luck! 
Bravo! The whole idea of the scene comes across really well. You can feel some sympathy for the girl and you cannot but laugh at that skelehorse! It was great reading your thoughts while creating this image, very inspirational. A brilliant addition to this wonderful contest.
Marsyas,
Loving it!! Great job and boy your hard work sure paid off!! I do my best to give back what I can to the forum and feedback I know is usually greatly appreciated. Glad I could be of assistance, and thank you for such a lovely work of artistic dislay. I will be watching for more of you work, drop me a pm anytime!!
I really like this image. There’s such a sweetness about it and also silly. I’m glad you made the flame cartoony–it makes the scene that more special. It’s extremley cute and I love the expressions on all of the characters. Good luck!!
Nice narrative wonderfully done - good luck.
Thanks, everyone! 
Now that I’m finally ‘done’, I can relax and take time to detail some of my techniques (I was usually bleary-eyed by the time I posted my WIPs, leaving me just enough strength to reciprocate comments and little else). So here’s a little tut on how I usually start painting a model:
Having painted fantasy miniatures as a kid, I’m used to a traditional workflow for painting models. To simulate how I used to paint, I apply ‘tints’, ‘washes’ and ‘drybrushing’ by using ‘FillObject’ and ‘Mask By Cavity’, as detailed in the examples below.
As shown in the examples, the great thing is that you can apply the cavity mask at lower subdivision levels to affect larger areas of the model.
You can also paint color directly with the brushes while a cavity mask is applied to work in extra detail where you want it.
If you find ‘Mask By Cavity’ doesn’t target a specific range of cavities you’re aiming for, you can fiddle with the ‘CavityMask’ options in the Brush controls. I actually rarely use the ‘Brush>CavityMask’ options though because they don’t seem to work with ‘FillObject’.
dustbin1_uk: Thank you! I’m just glad I’m done. Time to relax…
sasquatchpoacher: Thank you!
LittleDedder: Thank you!
-WOODY-: Thanks, -WOODY-! But after seeing some of the great final pieces, I’m not so sure I’m even a ‘worry’ anymore… 
I’m glad I finished though. Good luck to you too!
stumpf: Thank you, stumpf! And Good luck to you too!
marcus_civis: Thank you!
animastur: Thanks, I’m glad!
piz: Thanks, piz!
Plakkie: Thank you very much, Plakkie!
AngelJ: Thanks again, AngelJ!
cinnamonstix: Thank you! Glad you like it.
boozy floozie: Thanks, boozy! Nice to hear from you.
Very ncie picture, very nice technic…
really great job…
Tnx a lot Buddy! Your explanations about Cavity Mask is very useful for me!!! Great Technique!
Sweet! even at the end I am learning stuff! Well done and cheers!
What a cool and usefull traditional technique! Thanks for learning us this, it will certainly come in handy.
Marsyas, I think in the end it came out very well indeed. Nice work and best of luck to you.
Jason
Excellent work and wonderful tutorials, Marsyas
I’d personally liked to have seen your composition more heavily cropped (to more like image 3 from Post #140),
but the technical brilliance of all you’ve achieved and shared here EASILY overrides any quibbles on that topic
Your texturing is top-notch also.
Thanks for sharing, and best of luck 
Chris