Winged Lion Desktop

First off, I know I didn't take the lion out of the original stock, or add other images to the original stock, but that's because the photo was good stock by itself. I did a lot of editing to the original that it basically doesn't look entirely the same, but yeah, you'll see the different when you look at the original.

Anyway, I'm planning on making a quick website for one of my lion furcadia characters and decided to go with a winged lion kind of background. I was originally going to manip a lion photo into a 'real life' reference pic of the character, but decided against that and instead spent a good few hours working on this lovely piece. I am also using this as my current desktop background. For the website, it will have stock credit posted right on the image used as a background. Now I just have to code the site.... my least favorite part.

Hope you all like it as I enjoyed doing it. Colors were a stumper for me, couldn't figure out if I wanted to keep it looking gold-ish, or give it non-traditional colors, so comments about that would be appreciated. May do other versions of this if other colors are suggested.

Stock (c)
Manipulation (c) Me
Paint Splatter brushes (c) original creator. I downloaded these a long time ago, not sure who the creator is, but let me just say it wasn't me who made them.