LMAO!!! That's Great!!!

nice choice of images == well blended - like the eye as the sun

Thank you!

This is very weird.

You created something with the source image, and your work deserves a comment, it needs some shadows. You did a good job. good luck!

Thanks, George55! I'm new here and comments are not very frequent.

I agree with you author and George55, I think every person deserves at least one comment, instead of feeling overlooked and left out. In order to grow as an artist, constructive critiques are needed, and some people don't get that.

But anyway, interesting little insect and well constructed, but it does need shadows. Always remember shadows, people are really picky about that :P just a pointer. Nice creation, though

We usually take that skin make layers then Ctrl T Distort, warp until it looks right. Some of us even use liquify to put the texture in shape.
Then we make like 2 layers : one shadow, one highlights, create them as clipping and paint in them with black and white. One is overlayed the other is screened or we just play with the opacity of them.

Some use burn/ doge but that's a bit to permanent.
That reptile is so good!!! you could use it's spikes to make hair for your girl, a mohawk maybe

Looks like a Kitty Quilt ... really different work!

The plastic filter is a bit too heavy for the image, but I love the concept and the use of pattern fills!