if making the wings' root is too much fuss, suggest, you duplicate the wings and do a motion blur or something (of course, you need to vary the opacity and fade certain parts of the motion to make it more realistic)
make butterfly at an angle, now too flat, like stick-on (or a side view of it)
the eyes of the "fairy" is not appealing to me, no eye-shadow perhaps
High res would have been nice ... but without it is hard to say, I do think that the wings need work where they enter her back (that is always a hard part on Fairies ) For the hi res upload, you don't have to make it a huge High res ... anything helps, even 900 X 600 which is not that big and it shows us an uncompressed version. Nice concept though.
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Quite dramatic. The reflections seem to be more like shadows [totally different from reflections], however. And the clock face is opaque, not transparent as its 'reflection' would suggest. Not clear where the star sparkles are coming from or why they don't reflect in the water.
love this image author. Your colours are right on theme.
Although this IS FANTASY , I also get a slight surrealistic feel.
My fav part of your entry is the woman on the clock. The things that i personally would adjust is the planet "RING" . maybe angle it instead of having it straight up and down and soften the fill on the other one ... giving the sky a little depth.
Remember these are just my opinions for adjustments.. easy to say after all the hard work has been done.
ALL THE BEST WITH YOUR ENTRY.
This is lovely - surreal. The waviness of the reflections is great. Still, (to echo DanLundberg) I think reflections would appear more distorted, shortened, to appear on the surface of the water, not sink beneath. Good luck!
You have made a very complex image here and I see what you are trying to achieve.
IMO there are a few things that need to be corrected if you have the time.
The masking/cutout of the lady on the left could use some refining (if you can try using layer mask they can help refine the cut). The floor is a little too Cloned looking, you could try to use the cut and paste-over in small section, then position the bricks so they line up (which takes a fair bit of time) or try to get a full brick floor. The base could use a bit of perspective fixing ... the sides are slopping out a bit too much, I would say the upper-far corners could be moved in toward the center of the image a bit (using the Transform tool and hold down the Ctrl key to Free Transform individual corners). You can also see through the left hand side of the base at the back just in front of the lady (a quick way to fix this is just to duplicate the layer until it becomes solid and then merge the layers together). I know this is a lot but your idea is very nice and I believe you are headed in the right direction. If you have any questions just PM me
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THanks VERY VERY MUCH !!! it is through this type of feed back one can grow . I wont have time to fix. but i will take on board your tips for next time...
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Nice, but 50% orange at best.
Looks very good, i'm not sure about the wing's root in her back tho, needs a better blending, good luck.
if making the wings' root is too much fuss, suggest, you duplicate the wings and do a motion blur or something (of course, you need to vary the opacity and fade certain parts of the motion to make it more realistic)

make butterfly at an angle, now too flat, like stick-on (or a side view of it)
the eyes of the "fairy" is not appealing to me, no eye-shadow perhaps
otherwise.... nice
High res would have been nice ... but without it is hard to say, I do think that the wings need work where they enter her back (that is always a hard part on Fairies
) For the hi res upload, you don't have to make it a huge High res ... anything helps, even 900 X 600 which is not that big and it shows us an uncompressed version. Nice concept though.
Howdie stranger!
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