The idea is good but I think it could be made great if you blend the real bird with the tattoo to make the tat actually look like its coming alive rather than looking like it is just a shadow. You could also make the wire transition better to look like the wire is coming out of the leg rather than just wrapping around the tattoo on the leg.

I agree with Skyangel, I'd have the wire come more clearly out of the tattoo. But I love the idea of adding a 2nd bird as a kind of companion.

Good source finds to make the birds wings come to life

Author, sourcecs 2, 3 & 4 are linked to the same image, please fix this.

Thank you

The transition from the tattooed rose and the real rose on the arm is well done and the falling petals effect is a nice touch.
I think all those large flowers on the book is an overkill of roses though and detracts from the work you did on the tat. The eye is drawn to the flowers on the book rather than to the rose on the arm. Maybe change the picture on the book to something with a smaller scene? If you change a book cover, also change the title on the book, otherwise the book title does not match the scene on the cover.

Maybe the rose out of the tattoo could be more clearly, maybe some highlights?
The mood change from the source to this image is great though, that blue is awesome

Author.. I'm going to hold my vote until I can see exactly how this is a tattoo.. it really needs to be "IN A SCENE" to make sense to me. Not a bad thing, but I think the image should be "coming out" of a chest/arm/leg. Not a dig.. just a little confusing to me at moment.

The image is very well done, but I'm not sure how it fits into the theme of the contest.. good luck

I agree. It would have been better if we could see the original tattoo coming to life but we can not see the tattoo

The problem IMHO is the original source with the tattoo. That image is not really clear to start with. That art filter you used was no good idea IMHO it made it even more unclear with fading the edges inwards. You could have made the original image bigger and fade outwards, leaving the body which holds the tattoo more intact, maybe even expand on it by adding for instance an arm.
Please don't take what I'm saying too harsh, you're mentally still to attached to the image. This happens to all of us. Take another look at this image and the comments in 6 months or so and you'll see what I, and others, are saying and you might see what we mean

The blending is well done, no critique there just a