Well done!

Fantastic drawing, though the background seems too blurred compared to viking imo.

Thanks ladies and gents -

Kid - how do you decide how blurry to make a pic like that - I'm still learning

Nice. Works well. As for the blurring it's really a judgment call. A little sharper background might be good since the drawing is fairly sharp and he's not that far from the wheel for it to lose focus.

I wasn't sure - that control 'f' is easy to use. thanks for the advise though, I'll see what I can do

Very nice entry and in such a short time, well done = )

love this, good luck!!!!

Nice Work...gl

Very very nice work author...gl

Nice work !

Great work!

Love what you have done here and great drawing on the viking! He is an ideal figure for the source image!!!

As for the blur you can create a (sort of) false depth-of-field by duplicating the background layer, blurring it (maybe even a bit more than you already have), then you can add a layer mask and use it to "paint" out the blurred image close to the figure allowing more of the blur to show the further away from it you get. (I hope that makes sense ... let me know if you can't figure out what I am saying and I can try and explain better)

The blend is excellent here. Very well done. Follow ARCA's suggestions about adding depth to this image, it will help to make an already great image even better!

I used 3 layers + masks lowered the opacity of the brush ...


Thanks for all nice word

Very Nice

Congrats!

Congrats!!

congratulation...

very good use of source,, good luck!!!

thank you

Really nice work. You've managed to create something unique, yet STILL maintain the source image. Very well done!

Wow! Amazing!

Thank you, and thank you

I bowl every week, and I swear my pins sometimes look like this, lol. Really good work here, looks so real.

Looks so great! Love it, great idea!

Nice idea

Very creative. SBS would help you a lot.

I like it, creative, only one thing,cabin is ok ,but inside is unclear, that's just my opinion , GL

Thank you both.

vexycon, your right about the cabin, I see if I can fix it.


SBS is on the way ---

Great blending! Very nice work

Vvrooooooooom! Very cool, author, clever use of source. Love the checkerboard.

Do you have the SBS?

I'm working on it still - I'm going to Try to get it upload tonight

I added a SBS, if you want a better explaination let me know, and I'll see what I can do

very interesting work author...gl

OMG.. LAVA LAMP!!!.. never ever drop it, oh what a mess... really has that whole mad scientist feel.. good luck!!!

It's too dark. The viewer cannot easily make out what your focal point is, or how it relates to the title. Bring up the lighting so it's a full image, not just some light spots.

k, i tried to lighting it up some and put a litle green in the back to contrast the red...

Better, although still a bit too dark to tell much of a "story." The green does a good job of helping the color contrast, which improves the overall composition. Good luck!

Thanks - one of these days I may figure out photoshop