funny -- expression is nice

good expression

Very creative and cool!

Love the character!

Love the character!

This is great.... made me laugh.... I like spicy food... but poor guy with eyes and facial expression is something I've seen many times on people who claimed to like it spicy... lol! Keep on making these great chops author!

nice one...gl

awesome entry!

Expressive Entry.......Good Luck Author.

Congrats for your first place, SMC!

thanks to everyone

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OOps.. I accidentallz deleted mz comment.. Anyway.. I made a mistake in my comment.. I wanted to tell u that u had to soften up the shadow at the head. And at the tail, it had less opacity, so you could have put a gentle increase in opacity of shadow at its tail.. But i screwed up in the punctuation marks.. Apologies..

In the change u made, i feel u have overdone the opacity change at the head.. its better if u do not do any change in opacity.. just make the shadow softer in the head from the previous image..

EDIT: the opacity looks great to me .. like nator and blindscientist pointed out, the shadow is now a bit too soft .. i know i am annoying u now.. try to match the shadow softness with that of the chair.. i leave it to your judgement good luck..

hsbee - thinks this is what you were suggesting!

I love this idea! My only input would be to make the shadows a bit sharper, like the shadow of the chair. Also (nit pick alert), based on the angle of the light/shadow from the corner of the towel, I would expect to see a small shadow from the top of his head on the sand/rocks. Nicely done though author. Good luck.

nice work

very very very well done.. good luck author

Funny! I think chilli's shadow can be less blurry (look at the chair's shadow). GL!

I really really like this one author.... super duper job!

A very good entry, great Idea and execution, well done and good luck

This is so cool...funny work,nice mood and good execution...well done author

HAHA

Nice execution of the idea......Good job Author and Good Luck.

And congrats for another second place!

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simple and funny,.....LOLs.......

Ha! The best part is the guy in the foreground...you can almost see his expression... nice job on the chop too. My only little suggestion (after looking at the hi-res) would be to add some shadows on the pepper at his hands, and possibly on his arm, where the pepper stem flares up. Good luck author!

Good idea. Soldiers can try this in war-fields.

Very good work and idea. GL !

Humorous, simple & effective....that gets my vote everytime

Spicy gun LOL!

ahahahhahaahhaha great imagination!

Congrats for another third place!

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thanks everyone!

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Nice idea == but the edges are all showing pixelation -- you might tried using photo-shop to enlarge the source by 10% several times to get it to a more usable size -- or mask out the excess pixels

thanks alan I'm new in photoshop will take your suggestion into consideration

Not bad at all. More contrasted background should be more convincing though.

Very nice entry, a little closer work on the edges would make all the difference..... maybe next time! Well done author

Congrats

think i sahll call him 'Albert'

very cute

He looks better with a background, but you need to post the source link. Good luck!

done thanks for the tips - im new xx

Author, please read this to find usable sources: http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/
You can't use wallpapers. Try this: http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=4938093

Yep, author; besides of being a wallpaper, it's copyrighted. You can search images on Flickr
(Creative Commons), RGBStock, Sxc.hu, Morguefile, Photoxpress...

im really sorry - im new

good work. can make it like a chilly powder packaging design.

OK THIS IS DEFFO NOT COPYRIGHT NOW!!!! but thx 4 ur input lol :P

haha like the idea!!!!

Please update this entry instead of upload a new one. Go to "My stuff > My contest entries" and click on the edit entry button to make the necessary changes.

Very nice creature. But background is definitely spoiling your work. I would suggest drawing a cartoonish background.

ok i changed the BG whaddya think now??

looks great author... Good Luck (saw all the transitions.. I like this one best

Much much better

thank you!!