aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.......NICELY DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!! woop woop !!!!!!

Stunning piece of work -- great detail like the reflection in the glass and the eyes

Nice work . Like the closeup approach, and the planet reflection helps a bit to think this could be a moon visit . The face makes him appear rather old with all the wrinkles but maybe the voyage has aged him. Good work all around.

Thank you for your nice comments. I just hope that there was a window in Apollo 11 LOL. I exaggerated his wrinkles to deliver the feeling that they had to work very hard to get into the Moon. Anyway, this is the good chance for me to get familiar with his face. Even though he's famous and I admire him, I usually don't remember his image well

Wonderful work, just terrific! (Yes there were windows in the command module and the L.E.M.)

Thanks you a lots spaceranger, that's the answer I longed to hear, you're really an expert!!

Beautiful and stunning. The expressions are successfully conveyed.

Fantastic work here.!!!

Good work!!!

Author ,something has been bothering me about your work and I just now figured it out, should be easy to fix. The left eye ( from our view ) is disproportional compared to the right side. neither photo shows it as such. Sorry to bring this up but you have a good work that can be even better with a small touch up.

wonderful image , great usage and presentation of reflection and reflective surfaces. outstanding eye colour and facial hair construct.

Thank you all for your comments. @Glockman: yes, you're right. My initial purpose is just drawing the face with one side closer to the window, so the right halve should be larger than the other one, but I exaggerated the right eye a bit. It can be fixed easily for sure but I didn't have any Internet connection yesterday, so now it's impossible do change anything. Anyway, I really appreciate your feedback.

congrats on 1st place.. great entry

Beautiful work...well done and congrants!

Congrats Minh, stunning work

Congratulations my friend...very well done

omg wow! awesome! congrats!

Thank you a lot for the congrats

congrats on the win , good show.

Nice Job Congrats on your Win

so cool!!!

It reminds me of a family movie I watched where the guy build a rocket on his farm becuase we wanted to fly to the moon.

cool , love the originality and humor. well done

Don't know what it is, but this just puts a smile on my face. High marks author! Good luck.

Thank you all for your comments! I'm glad you liked it.
nbaztec I wanted to make something funny taking into consideration all those people who still don't believe we went to the moon. It is a farmer who's accidentally caught in the rocket going to the moon.

Love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

congrats on 2nd place

Congrats Marina great work !!

Congrats Marina on your second place

Thank you all for your support!

congrats on the second. I love it.

Nice Congrats

fantastic detail. TEACH ME HOW!

wonderful entry author off to the favs.

thank you scratzilla, you are very kind.

I love the detail you've put into this, those footprints look fantastic...nice touch. I too am a supporter of NASA.

Ohhh wow!!!!!!!

congrats on 3rd... my comments are honest Glockman

Congrats Glockman for third...

Congrats Glockman, very well played, and thank you again for your input

thanks everyone , great bunch of people here.

Fantastic work. Great talent shown here!

excellent art.!!!

Great work my friend, I like the curve on the flag that fits to the moon shape. I can see you spent time for thinking and came up with this approach. The highlight on the hand is so realistic, well done. In my opinion, maybe you don't need to use the shadow for the hand because the whole image is quite conceptual, rather than a real spatial arrangement of objects. Best of luck to you ^^

Thank you so much Langstrum It looked a bit flat without the shadow, but I will see what it looks like without it...It is on a separate layer, so it's easy to remove. I did spend time on this and I'm happy with the result...I'm learning from you my friend, thanks to your great tutorials

wow that hand is verrrrry real looking, but the flag over the planet seems off a bit.

Tried to make it less realistic and focus on hand and plane(where all the detail and time was spent on) and the other two-moon and flag, to compliment the rest as a background. Setting the focal point on the hand.

Realistic construct of hand, artistic and thoughtful image and wonderful presentation of flag..
FANASTIC out come author...

A very well crafted entry! Everyone has shown excellent work in this contest you're all winners in my book!

nice bit of work loopyluv, keep um coming

great representation of theme author. nice astro suit and good highlights /shadows

thx

well done, tough one this time.