Considering the light source I think the highlights on the eyes would be on the upper right instead of upper left. Aside from that, it's a great job!

that looks cool

Really nice work author! Love that shadow from the nose on the face.

Congrats!! Well done!

Congrats terrific work

The little guy on the head doesn't work for me. (Yeah, I know it's surrealism, still doesn't work, IMO). Good image otherwise. GL author.

Brilliant, I love the imagery.

1st source is an illustartion... not alowed .. i like the work though

i like everything about this image other than the snail... it seems placed in there for no reason other than possibly to hide the pole going into the sand at the sea floor... IMO, it takes my eyes away from the striking focal point of the man and his balancing pole... I would love to give this a higher vote, but with the shell, i can not. Good luck, Great work!

dear bjaaockx ! i agree with you hope it's better now

The man's feet seem too stiff and unnatural. It's as if he's squatting on an invisible platform. You could try making the feet point down to make it look more relaxed. But I do like the mood a lot

the water have to be a strait horizontal line adding some wave.its a nice and simpel work gl

Great work author! High marks.

Nice color and sweet image. Nice work, author! Fave.

Thanks to all for your comments and fav !

Congrats!!

awesome musted colors. great concept and well executed

I think with some more color it would look more attractive, more vivid, good compilation tho!

I agree with Akassa if you added some colors this would be amazing!!

I luv it ^_^

I'm torn about the sepia tone effect. It's an interesting approach, but loses the illusion of depth that some color could provide. Over all I like your image, but why not just use a pic of Saturn if you wanted rings?

the muted colors can be fine for the image, but as CMYK mentioned it loses depth with the lack of color. You can add the depth back in by shading your more distant objects as well as making them less in focus, this will bring your eyes to the more clear focal point and create the illusion of depth in the back. Good Luck!

Really like this author! All things considered above from other members...they are great observations...but I personally like it the way it is. Some of the elements that are deemed to be 'fixed'...are just the things that make this image kind of charming and sweet. I could see this being used as a CD cover...for a female artist. Love the expression of the gal.

Thank you all . I could have used colors, but i loved the sepia, and how it turned out so much better then with a hint of color, so I decided to stay with it.

Congrats!!

thank you all

Really great!

Just, for me, the "treestructure" on the left jumps a bit out; the dark shadow is a bit to hard compared to the building and the blending of the tree is not "yeah!". The tree you can easily solve by adding shadows to the leaves and with the use of a very small blur brush (say 3 pixels), make a new top layer and select all layers, and go over the edges of the leaves that will give you a better blending.

As a personal touch (what I would do that is ) is making the image a bit bigger at the bottom and emphasize the bare rocks a bit more, IMHO that will attract the attention more on the beautiful sky you've used. But that's what I would do, please don't do it if you don't want to: it's in the end your work and that's how it should be

One more thing: I see you have to credit the author of source 3: just add "thanks to vivekchugh" in your link to that source

Thank you for giving your feedback on my work, will try to update that (hopefully I will get time for that). But once again thank you my friend.

I have updated the stock provider name in my entry.

lovelly colors and atmosphere! the blue to orange sky gradient work really well here. i'm not thats sure about the tree up front but other than that its lovelly

Looks fantastic, even tho the high res version doesn't look that high.

Friends I have updated the image.

@robvdn - I have updated the image with "tree structure", let me know if it look nice! One more thing - bigger at I tried to increase bottom image but it is not going with the composition. But big thank you for your suggestions!

@ pshoudini : Thank you my friend, I used tree up front to create visual path for viewer.

@ Akassa - Good to know you like it, please check again in high res as I have updated the image.

the problem with the tree is that it is the only thing that looks pasted on... all the rest of the image looks great! a little more work on the tree is needed. i suggest you try to match the color of the tree t the rest of the image. you can do this by going to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > MATCH COLOR. Make sure you have your tree layer selected, duplicate it, than do the match color. Match the color to the main background image, by selecting it form the drop boxes at the bottom of the dialog box that comes up. using the sliders adjust the settings till the tree matches the rest a little more.

@ bjaockx : Thank you for your valuable feedback my friend, but right now I am unable to upload the edited entry.

I will keep this in mind in my future work!

Really nice, artistic job, author! Really love the flow and color on the blackest of backgrounds!