The green beard is the same color as the background, and at first glance looks like part of it. Other than that, this is a great image and imaginative use of the source!

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Very cute and creative! CMYK46 is right about the beard. The hair, too, blends in with its own leafy environment and thus looses its impact. From the SBS, the hirsuteness appears to be a Spanish-moss-like thing. Spanish moss always seems to have a silvery/grayish tinge to me. A tonal shift in that direction might make the hair more distinct. (Having the beard be in front/on top of the fronds of the far fern might help as well.)

Very well done author.

Great entry...well done author

Beautiful...

That was nice... congrats to be in among the best 7.

great job author.. but there seems to be a separation between the tail and the body (the blue feathers either need to have some sort of outline or changed not to match the color of the background.. If you're happy with it that's just fine (the constructions is wonderful).. but when I look at it.. it seems like the tail is not attached... but that could just be me

GOOD LUCK AUTHOR AND GREAT JOB!!!!

no sign of source image,,is this the drawing contest?

Great CBR, but if it's source only it needs a SBS. (And ditto the above comments).

Author, I know that you know that: don't forget the sbs!
Really nice chopping!

Notwithstanding the creativity of a bird not connected to its tail, I, too, wonder why this couldn't be done with any source with yellow and green pixels in it.

SBS is here now,.......
> all, thanks for your comments,.....
>Drivenslush,.....about the white color, I have fixed it by changing the BG, it is considered to be white feather of the bird,.....hope it is better now...
> dear, CMYK,...SBS is here now....
>Erikuri,...oh you are always that kind,......and gentle....
>Dan,....please check out the SBS,...

very very nice creation author,bird is simply fabulous...only thing,u gave yellow,dark green,golden and similar colors on a bird,IMHO this white create to big contrast and its a bit distraction...maybe some of the base colors would be better...this is not suggestion,just an idea...I like your work so much...

Very nice! I really like the rendering of the bird it has a graceful look about it. It is hard to see the original source but it does look good.

I have to agree, there`s cbr and then there`s smudging pixels..... wonderful image but I dont think the source has been used very well in this instance.... good luck though

Very nice work. Looks great

Well done author, very creative.

Great picture

Very nice image. Very CBR'd....

Love your entry...congrats to be among the 7 best entries.

Very good, you beat me to it though.

Nice chop! Very convincing! Good blend. GL!

Whoa... perfect! Well, grass part is not that hard, but the parking lot is perfect, specially the cars, I suppose the reconstruction of them must have taken a loooooooooot of time and patience! Very good!

whatta...............it's magic...........great......!

Amazing work author,very very neat...well done

It is magic !! great job author ....i like it !! g l

good work......the cars in the background must of been a nightmare to do,

Yep, and you should have shown that in your SBS. Still, nice work,

Well done with cloning tool.

I like this very good.

Blame it on the HIGH SCHOOLERS!!!!! hehehe

Nicely done, that van almost looks like one of Solkee's mini versions.

"I knew this was gonna take a long time to accomplish, but I didn't realize what a pain it was going to be. " LOL tell me about it nice job

Very good job Author

Very nicely put together. Great work!

very nice author.. good luck!!!

Nice entry... gl

Very beautiful! I'd like one of this decorating my room...

Fantastic job,totally different,i love it...well done

Beautiful, looks like a wood carving

Very nice composition.

nice blending looks quite real -- might lose the winter playground sticker -- looks a bit odd (IMHO)

Kudos for not going the CBR (chopped beyond recognition) route. Nevertherless: Seeing the contest source, I can appreciate how one might imagine "what if a real bison traveled around the Utah area and came back home with stickers on itself from where it went?" Overlooking why anyone would find the end result particularly interesting outside the context of this contest, it's curious that 'home' is a small, rectangular slab beside an urban parking lot. The rear stickers look more realistic that the front ones. The shadow is weak right under the hooves where it needs to be strongest in order to anchor the bison to the ground. It's not clear what the 'glow' in the 'beard' area is supposed to represent.

Very nice work and great blending.

@ Dan IMO glow is here for showing him angry

A random thought -- New title: Where the Buffalo Roam. Description: "Excuse me. I'm visiting from out of town. Where do the deer and the antelope play?"

Good blend of the 2 images...might be better to remove the statue base. I think he's meant to be snorting judging from the foggy area around the nose? Might want to rethink that...

SBS say: -It's his breath! He does say he's getting cold ,so you probably would see his breath?

Nice, guys! We can see bison's breath as an angry sign. As a scene like this (a bison full of stickers) is unlikely to happen, let's think of it this way: maybe it was bewitched, like a statue. But the witchcraft was broken, and it turned to life, and wishing go home. In a bit cold day, many times our breath can't be seen, but a breath of a huge animal like a bison can.

nice idea.. ,

Author, that's a good explanation so far, but why is the statue base still there?

@Bob: I would say to you to pretent that it was a sewerage system lid!...
But I made the changes you suggested. Well, I hope it's better now.

While it's a bit disconcerting that the author isn't sure what the image is about ("...maybe...", replacing the concrete slab with grass is a definite improvement. I think the middle-hoof shadow should be tilted slightly (8 o'clock to 2 o'clock) to better match the perspective of the ground.

@Dan: thanks! Of course, it was the base of the statue. As CMYK asked why the base was still there, I said that.
About the shadow, I think it's similar to source 1...

Great blend author,buffalo is amazing>Its always hard to achieve good blend of 2 or more animals,but u score there...well done

great job ! good luck

Looks good GL!

look great nice image

Author, I think you did a good job on the blending. It looks real good over all. Good luck.....!!!