wow cool

In her tutorial, madalina had some compositional tricks that she did not explain:

- those branches, create some sort of dynamic frame;
-the moon covered by the wing is the first checkpoint- it's not random that you find it in the lower 3rd of the image.
-pigeon has orange, to make a chromatic contrast, etc,etc.

The right half of your image is unatractive- compositionaly speaking, therefor i think that if you would crop it in half and keep only the left side, i would look so much cool.
Rotate that lightning strike 45 degrees.
You could also add a bit of orange on the pigeon.

Try it, and if it doesn't look better, never listen to me again

agrees with grey

thank you Greymval....made changes...thank you

It looks beautiful.

The image looks badly composed, although it has improved by adding color to the bird.

When you adapted the tutorial to include the house, you changed the overall composition.

The branches in the tutorial "framed" the focal point (the colored bird). Your house, with parts of another house on the side, throw the focus off the bird, and visually "weigh down" the image at the bottom. I would suggest eliminating the house(s) entirely.

thanks Mossy...this is my very old work done in 2009 ... thanks for ur comments.. i have the other version too with the same background also...i thought it would be too similar....i will add it in my sbs..

I have made changes again....thanks for the suggestions all...and thanks to locale for his suggestions on my entry..

very nice

Ooooo, great improvement The bird resembles a little bad angel

Very nice piece author...gl

The flowerpot looks very realistic! Good job.

Nice job, author. Everything looks a bit fuzzy or soft.

it looks so real!! great job!!

Lovely work and I agree ... looks like you could reach out and touch it!

The pot looks gorgeous, well done
-there are some masking problems where the stem meets the earth.
- you could have used a lower saturation for the background to make it a bit more neutral.
- dodge/burn tools should have been on a lower oppacity for less contrast on the leaves and petals.
People use clipping layers of black& white with lower opacity to make shades & lights, cause it's difficult to redo the dodge/burn, but you can always erase & adjust a clipping layer.
It's a good start, anyways.

greymval thanks for the input....I have been at this a while, it is the way I want it to look though.

Nice work! I would have loved to see more detail in the leafs, but overall I think you did a stunning job.. Great work author and GL!

very cute

Really precise work!

Fantastic work author...well done

Nice effect but a closer crop probably wouldn't have hurt. GL!

very nice work author...gl

The edges of the weave are too "hard," making it look like like rectangles floating at different heights, rather than integrated.

in my opinion is a good effect

I agree with mossy, it doesn't look like weaving, the shadows on the vertical blocks is wrong for that. Check the tutorial again and see how they have done it. Unless you have purposely made it like floating blocks, which is still a nice effect.

Great effect ... I agree, it doesn't look like weaving but you have created a whole new look

I think to get a more woven look you would have to darken the strips where the go under the other strip (the strips would be darker as the go further away/under. Great tut to try! I would like to give it a whirl sometime!

i like the effect

Nice execution! But yeah, it probably could of been given some more attention to detail. GL!

Great work author...gl

What a fun looking entry! Nice tutorial you found, good job!

Well done

Nice work ... fun tutorial!

Neat, I like this effect = )

Love the mix between photo and sketch, great tutorial and thank you for finding this one. I am going to try this myself! Great work and GL author!