Spooky, painful and very well blended!

Great entry..

Cool image and work reminds me of John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars......

Soooo good - the best in my opinion.

very cool

Great work author...i like mood a lot,and color choice is 110% right...well done

Congrats on the first place! Very well done!

Congrats!

Congrats... this sends shivers down my spine every time I look at it, well done

Congrats for 1st

Congrats! for 1st

Thanx a lot for the comments and congrats! Madamemonty, good I have reached my goal with this one then

En ook nog gefeliciteerd met je 1e plaats!

Very well done....creepy good!

I love this image, and how you combined all the elements. If I keep practicing i hope to do work like this.

Well done

Nicely done and a good SBS as well! Very believable results.

Cant add much more than spaceranger already said, well done indeed! Good luck!

IMO nose is a little big, but the reconstruction is perfect, author! Very well executed.

agree with the nose, but everything else looks fine

Thanks erikuri and Kid, I have slightly reduce the size of nose.

Very nice! [But I do think the SBS could be clearer as to whose facial feature went where to flesh out the skull.]

Thanks DanLundberg, I have updated SBS,

just a suggestion...i would find a skin texture source and set it to either overlay or softlight, desaturate it and reduce the opacity til it suits your taste...right now her face is a little blurry...if that doesnt work try adding a little noise to the face..good luck...

Thanks RickLaMesa, I have slightly reduced blurriness of skin

now, use the burn tool on one side of her face to give a light source

Thanks RickLaMesa again, I normally don't use burn tool because this tool change actual layer permanently, My preferred method is using new layer with multiply blending mode. I have added some shadow to her face

Nose is nose but she is damn cute...great work author...best of luck

Very well done, author!

Congrats great image!

Congrats for 2nd

Congrats for your second place, Nasir!

Nice construction author...good luck

Very impressive dude! Looks a little mean and moody, nice use of D.O.F. my only suggestions would be the hair line, need to get a small fine brush in there and add the hair in stead if it just fading away, and the columella is a little to pinched.

Very nicely done, strong colors. I agree with Warlock about the hairline and the nose. Try using the smudge tool at a fairly low setting and a small brush and pull away from the hair edge into the skin to simulate the hairs at the hairline edge. The nose is just a bit of a tweak to fix. (Did I just tell you to tweak your nose?) None the less a good entry!

I think the eyes are a little small, but the whole image is very well done. GL, author!

thanks to warlocke and spaceranger i tried to fix it (view hi res)

Hair line is much improved, a far more convicting natural result....top job! and good luck

I agree with Warlock in all respects!

nice work here!

Nicely done!

Congrats superb work!

Congrats for 3rd

Congrats! for 3rd place

Congrats on your 3rd place, dude!!!

Congrats for your third place, Tucker! This was for sure the best of all three versions!

Pretty well done and good example for this contest! Good luck!

not bad, maybe make the face a little more symmetric though, i dont know...well blended!

Nice image, great blending and I agree is a good example, I would leave the face as it is more natural this way no ones face is perfectly Symmetrical.

And it's very difficult to find really good sources that match the skull a little at least... Very nice entry, author! GL!

very good....

The nose part is not perfectly done.It can be better...

The nose part is not perfectly done.It can be better...

Very nice -- and symmetrical enough.

Some more attention needs to shown to the left side of her face especially along the nose/cheek line. Also the face's left ear is way higher on the skull than the right one. I think maybe some more shadow under the hair on the left side of face would be in order too, other than that it's a decent picture.

Great job, author!

nice work author...gl

Very good blend.

Very well done indeed! Reminds me a bit of Edward Norton in American History X. Good SBS as well.

Great job! Pretty seamless...just a little mess on the left, next to his neck.

good eye CMYK

There are two faces here?

Perfect! Totally seamless... He reminds me a little Vin Diesel. Maybe eyes are a bit (just a bit) small, but it's a detail. GL!...

you may want to use a different set of eyes, because the strange shape does not match the muscle structure very well, also there is a blend line above his left eye, the skin textures could be matched better in the area of the nose, and also you could use just a little clean up to the right on the old whiskers, and the blend line to the right of lips

Wow, it's hard to believe this isn't a real person. Great job!

Very nice work author...It looks like simple work but i am sure that was hard to match the sources this good...best of luck