Tortus Banner Concepts

As you may or may not know, our current Tortus Banner was designed by me. At the moment I'm trying to get a new banner done for the new contest that is running. Soo... I'd like your help with ideas for how to make these concepts better.

Here are two so far:

Pretty Cool

where is this contest at? i wanted to enter the last one but never ended up being able to, link me =O

damn seraph did u paint the second one? there both awesome

Nice job seraphim Great Work