Eat that sucker up, grindylow...chomp, chomp!

Just a moment before the blast

Stunning work ! Very High marks from me !!

very nice work

A lot of emotion inside...

Great !

Thank you for the comments

very nice concept..... I would like to read it as a story.... Good luck

Great imagination author, and very nice construction...good luck

the creature is great, but in my eyes the contrast of that creature is a little high comparing to the background ..very nice entry author good luck
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Great work!

Unreal work author

Thank you my friends for your kind words . Thank you very much Rakib, you are right, I knew that problem, just didn't try to fix it, I'll do it soon.

Changes were made according to the suggestion of Rakib and Nator. Thank you very much

mind blowing, wonderful entry

Nice image author, I like the details you put in your work. In special I love the doll

Great work

I'm going to start blaming your talent on witchcraft.. is that alright with you?

Very nice! Love the whole concept and idea.

I like your interpretation of the character here. And your water effects are great. Sad thought the lonely guy just wants a friend only to be tricked by cruel creations of humanity. Suppose I'm reading a bit deep but, that is what art does.
Good luck to you.

Very cool! Beautiful image and bitter/sweet story.

Wow, thank you so much for the nice comments. @Jade: EXACTLY! I wanted to give some descriptions about the story but finally I chose to leave it blank for everybody to interpret by their own way, and what you read out is absolutely right. Grindylow is a kind of monster which likes children, and parents tell their kids about Grindylow to keep them stay away from the dangerous water. Grindylow has the soul of a child and innocent, it wants to play with kids but its stupidity just kill them. That's the tragic story when we can't understand each others or can't find a solution for living in harmony. Thank you Jade, also spaceranger, you made my day ^^

i liked your story author... i dint know abt grindylow...
poor fella, i wud like to make friends with him, even at the cost of my life..

as of chop, i like the experimentation on lighting...
but i expect the sea weed in front grindylow, to be defined more smoothy and precisely...
jus me author... i'm sure it shud just hv slipped your eyes...

great job........

This is one of the images I love to see in a contest like this...... great job, colors, and blendings.... gl

Congratulations!

Congrats on first place - great entry

My magic works again
Congrats!

Congrats Mate on the victory, great image like always

Congrats awesome work as usual

congrats on first place... no surprises here...

Silly me ... I was sure I had said something about this before. But that's what I get for trying to steal time at work to comment :O ... A truly wonderful image, great story and amazing underwater work! Love it and sorry I missed it. In the end BRAVO and all my best wishes on 1st Place!

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

Congratulations on a super beautiful entry......

Thank you so much my friends for your supports so far. Grindylow is a piece of myself, lonely in this world, but now I understand that I can find the sympathized souls .
Farewell to you, farewell to Pxleyes, now I'm going back to my own way.
Wish you all the best!!

Congrats...

Oh that's an amazing scene and idea. I think you should bet more on shading to give it a higher dynamic.

wow thats creepy ! well done

Absolutely fabulous ! 100% on theme. Really beautiful work, high marks from me ! (And why am I not surprised its you ? )

thanks so much everyone. i was so excited to get this uploaded. when i saw the contest, this was one of my first ideas...and it turned out almost exactly like what i'd pictured in my head.

*blush* lamantine, your compliments are always so nice. Are you saying i have a trademark style?? :lol:

great stuff..... and author u too have a trademark style.... I can recognize you...

It's good to have a style, your own style there's many ppl with a style here, which is not bad in my opinion.

well doesn't she look nice and friendly! LOL Great job on this!

Of course you do

NICE but is the tale premade by another person ??? is that alowed ???

I asked a mod, and this tail is an allowed resource.
it really is no different than using 3d render stocks or .png files that are up as unrestricted sources.

when in doubt, ask. the mods will be quite helpful.

ok verry good GL

OMG Awesomely Spoooooky! Love It

Oh, no, I always got surprised when I see the wonderful stuff that is shown here in this site! Everybody (including the author) is very talented, I have no words.
And this entry is cool, the title really means "evil" deeply! GL!

Thanks so much everyone. really. whenever i have this kind of commenting going on a piece, it makes me feel really great.

erika, you really just made my day with that. i'm honored to be included among all of the talent on this site.
Gia, *blush* thank you!

and thank you for all the favorites too guys. i am very surprised!

That's not surprised to me, author, because I also realized that your style is unique and stable through all of your entries. Your ideas behind the entries easily impress people and your execution is clever. As far as this entry is concerned, you achieved your goal for sure. Even though this contest will be full of mermaids, maybe I won't see any spooky mermaid like that again because that's too difficult to compete with you . I just have a suggestion of increasing the brightness of the whole scene for people to appreciate more what you've done. Best of luck to you
EDIT: Oops, I'm sorry, sometimes siren is depicted as a kind of mermaid but in general they are distinctive.

Wow langstrum *faints* thank you! Such an amazing compliment from someone as talented as yourself! I have been playing with the brightness on this to see if I liked it better and will likely upload an updated version soon.
And, technically, she's not a mermaid but a siren...however, I did seem to make my own version of what I see them as. I remember well homers "oddesey" and this is what I always pictured the sirens...perhaps when they surface they turn beautiful just to help them lure the sailors to their ocean graves.

Am I seeing a Hollywood Movie!!!!!!!, fantastic entry in a fantastic contest. GL

thank you shaadow and Nator. so appreciated.

I did go back and play with some lighting on this, brightened the image quite a bit, and made her face much more visable. Thanks for the suggestions, and hope this pleases your eyes as much as it did mine in the finished stage.

Great!

Looks alot like my childhood swimming instructor, very well done....great image!

Thank you so much!

spooky and dangerous..... good work....gl

Niiiiiiiiiiice!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!

Congrats for your second place!

congrats on second...

Disturbing and frightening the way she is coming at you from the deep. This is why I get afraid of underwater diving! Bravo and congrats on 2nd! Excellent entry!

Congrats!!

Congratulations on your second..... well done....!

Congrats for the second place

Fantastic entry author and great humor...blending is perfect...well done

Well done...that's one fugly cat!

And that's one fugly fish, too! Would like to see that goiter removed, but otherwise, good blending, coloring and ear surgery on the kitty's face.

Great "last call" entry!

Wow! Can she purrrrr?

Excellent job! I love it

"Fugly" or not, I want a whole tank full of these guys! How completely awesome! I love your blending! Well done.

perfectly blended author, well done

i like the colour of the cat...
nice idea author.... i like its simplicity....

very good~ my favorite

great.........

Well blended.

nice blendings again..... gl author..

GL!

My little 3 yr old grandaughter really studied this when I showed it to her. She couldn't quite figure it out!!! Great job! GL

Congratulations!

Congrats for your third place, Rick!

i still luv the catfish... congrats...

Stunning blending ... does he chase water mice? Congrats on 3rd!

Congrats!!

Congratulations on your third place......

congrats

This entry shows master skills in Photoshop and Illustrator and of course in Coral draw...Your eye for the details and perfect precision is legendary author...very very well done

I still wonder how do you manage to do this..... another great image. gl author.

Thank you very much for the support, guys!

congrats...

Another lovely image from you ... sorry I was so busy this week and did not have time to vote for all the wonders in this contest ... congratulations and bravo on 4th place.

Fourth places deserve a mention of congrats..... Still beautiful entry....

Nice entry. Here are my tips:
1.The creature should have a blue-ish overlay in order to look like it's in water, i would even lower the opacity to 90-95.
2. the lower part of the mouth doesn't look 3d (perspective is off). try to add the other layer of teeth behind and something like a tongue between them.
3. The are 2 types of bubbles : soap ones & water ones. You need the second type that looks like this:
http://www.pixshock.net/pic_b/31f006131aa76bed5f1dec01cc6d4203.jpg
You see,they are not round, cause water is heavy and makes them squashed. I think you can fix this from jitter.

Hello greymval, I really apreciate your comments and your tips, this is the way a criticism must be done

I fixed the things you help me to see.

For the bubbles, I used liquify

Thank you!

That's pretty scary! Really stunning details.

this is awesome

Thanks for the nice comments.

Great job man, now it's a kick-a$$ entry.

Yep, really nice now. GL!

Nice surprise!

Nice entry, well done

Amazing creature,great perspective,fantastic work...well done author

Very nice and cool focus here.

good work...

Thank you , I apreciate all your comments, votes and critiques.

Creepy ... very creepy. Sorry I missed photoing on this contest ... it would have been fun but hard, there is some really stunning work here ... this included! Bravo!