Very disturbing and beautiful...

Hands don't look like they're attached to the tree, and should have some bark texture. Good mood & color.

I agree with Bob, you have done well with the head, so just apply the same technicques to the hands and it'll look great.

Thank you all!
@Ray: actually I didn't change the head so much, it's a kind of mummy sculpture. But I agree about the hands, so I applied some texture of the tree on them. I hope it's better now!

Yep, looks heaps better. Nice job!

Good work! Very atmospheric!

WOW!!! This has such great shadings and the tones are amazing! Looks so real!

WOW AMAZING!!!

This one is good, great sources you found there. Naughty tree!

Great work ... disturbing imagery! Great entry!

I`m gonna have to get me one of those there massage tree`s...they`re amazing! .... Excellent work author.......Best of Luck!

awsome

Very useful tree if you have bad neighbours!

Well done, definitely dark =)

Fantastic creation...well done

Beautiful image, but it's too dark.

Nice work!

cool smooth work...i like the mood,colors and final product...well done author

I think the darkness helps. GL!

nice mood

Composition is very well balanced, elements are positioned perfectly giving good rhythm to the design! I'm spooked! Well done author!

Great lighting, the image fits the theme very well.

Great blending and idea.

Really creepy!

intense, well done!

This simple image is very powerful. It makes me *feel*. Great entry!

Extremely creepy and surreal ... well done!

great work...good luck

This is VERY well done author.. is there any chance you could find different versions of the Dutchman.. or alter them a bit.. they're perfect duplication is a bit too obvious..(they represent worn out ships and it'd be strange that they got worn out all in the same way)

LOVE THE WIGGLY MOUNTAINS!!! good luck! and fine chop

I love the concept but i think it's a bit off theme, it makes me remember an amazing fantasy scene... not really dark or surrealism.

Maybe it's surrealism, maybe it isn't. What it's not is well thought out. The ships are all identical & facing the same way. You have no source for the twisty spire things, or the dark watery looking stuff in the foreground. The ships should at least be flipped horizontally, since the light source is from left and their shadows are at left. Same with the spires.

wonderful entry

I like it. Magnificent image

Love this spooky cloudland

great entry author...best of luck

Why the background has some kind of "lack of quality"?

The background is to portray emptiness, the image is about death.

if death is wearing a thong and a string bikini top... I know a lot of guys who will be thrilled LOL

Love the bit of red on the side of Death's cape peeking out. Nice emphasis.

Very well done! I like the sharper shadowing of the girl in white, it makes her more dominant and pushes back the image of death. The background texture gives interest to the "emptiness". @ Slushie...yeah I'm "dying" to meet her too!

nice choice and blending -- clothing is nicely added

why not have a chip-n-dale in a thong!!!! hehehe