well done!

very good author, the porcelaine effect is well respected, good luck author

Very Good Work!!!

its extremely beautiful

wow what a great piece! I love all the details and shadowing.

Beautiful entry...my only thought is it would be better with some color. Still, high vote from me. GL author.

Amazing work, GL!

Appreciate all the votes from your guys.

very creative and well made
i see this is your first entrance to a competition im looking forward to see more of your works

good job author..... I would love to see him in a different background

Fantastic concept and execution!

wow!

Stunning work! Welcome and a wonderful start!

excellent work author GL!!

good job!!!

it's brilliant! Keep it up!

yep... this is a winner! congrats

Congrats fabulous dragon

Congratulations on 1st!

very pretty fish

superb entry

Beautiful color, graceful shapes!

Lovely concept!

what is the rational behind? Although the title is fish but for me it looks like a crab claw....

congrats

Congratulations on 2nd!!!

Very realistic...GL author!

Thanks!

Well done!

no doubt it's a texture map that did the trick... I like it

Thanks lbadge and aheman!

Thanks for the suggestion. I broke up most of the lines with the cloning. it looks better now

nice effect you hvae here! Very appealing

Very well done ... A thought for future enties ... you may get a better score if you can include a step-by-step (SBS) description of your work process ... just take screen prints as you go along, then post them with a brief description ... that'll do the trick .

congrats

Congrats!

nice colorising.... brings live to the monotone

This is very nice...wonderful colorization. The pastels work well with this image. Well done author...

Good job, clean and very creative!

Agree. great job and technique!

Here is a piece of art that can easily be underappreciated. This was a pain in the neck, eh, author? Your patience paid off - you did a great job with it!

thanks very much to aheman, itsmymoment, MossyB, lbadge320 & elemare like it!

Wonderful work, and nice palette you chose, GL!

.... I am looking at this piece and still liking it... can't explain

Huge amount of work ... masking until you were almost blind, no doubt ...not sure if that is how you did it but however it is a great, if subtle, result!

Very sweet author GOOD LUCK!!

the spoons' color may have to lower down alittle... but this brings a smile to my face

Very creative author!, GL!

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