The dice and lattice in the front are too blurry: they are the foreground so they should be sharper.

The blue die has a dark edge where it meets the red die...eliminate that and this will be a real pleasing image.

The compression ruins this image indeed...With what jpeg-quality you saved it (I mean 70% or 90%, etc)? Good luck!

nice!

Looks Good...

It's a shame the vote bar only goes up to 100%...

Author, the dice in front are exactly right...they match the focus plane of the source pic, and should be blurry...the sharpest focus is at the back of the image. You got it right.

CMYK that depends on whether the author wants the focus to be on the front of the image or the back. Since the biggest and most obvious objects are in front it seems like the author should make the front of the image (dice and background) less blurry and the back more blurry or artistically it makes little sense.

@CMYK46, thanks for putting up the explanation.

thank you all

looks top quality

Congrats for your first place!

Congrats!

Congrats, nice work

thank you guys

Very interesting take on the source...the glow from the moon should be rounder.

This is a good conception, I'll agree with CMYK46 about the moon glow, but it's still a nice piece

i like the final effect, good luck!

has a nice look to this

Congrats for your second place!

Congrats!

interesting image, i think you should try and show more depth in the mouth, but otherwise a nice image.

Edit: Great change, good luck

hmm interesting

Shorten the width of the tongue shadow to be closer to actual width of tongue...good job!

thanks ponti and pixel (it's weird how you can see so much more in HIGH RES after uploading then when you're actually working on the piece).. thanks

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i knew it was u LOl

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Congrats for your third place, Ernest!

Congrats!

hahaha Thanks

Congrats

congrats for 3rd.

nice job

Creative use of source, good luck!

nice work

I like this alot. Well done.

This is a nice image. I would like it more if it didn't have the corner lines of each diamond showing depth. Right now, the chess pieces are floating. If you remove the lines and give the chess pieces a set down shadow it will really help.

EDIT: I was liking the less saturated previous version more, but I DO like the edits to those lines mentioned above. Your set shadows are currently wrapping too far around bottom of pieces. Cut them off where the piece width ends softly.

great

Texture doesn't follow the different planes...

I dont like this new version. too much contrast. better the way it was.

good use of source.good job