Where did the face come from? There is no source listed, and if it's painted, please show a couple of steps.

Edit: ok, cool.

Sorry Pearlie, but the source is up now, it takes a few minutes ...... and its a photo of a mask....not a painting or a rendering.....was the only decent pic of a mad scientist i could find

Pic looks better in high res

Definitely works in hi res ... I agree with you author! Love the concept and I think there is a great story here ... I would hate to have him rolling down the tracks after me! I can just imagine a girl tied to the tracks in front of him ... anyone ever heard about The Perils of Pauline!

nice work

Very odd but nicely made

Oh my gosh, that thing in the window, totally sacred me, lol. Nice work.

Damn......53.9% score??????
What an insult.
That seems a bit low....this piece wasnt the best in the contest, but deserved a better score than that..

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"...this piece wasnt the best in the contest, but deserved a better score than that."

By what standards? Every piece ranking better than yours showed much more effort, transforming the source image, while your entry basically just masked off portions and added a face and some lights. Technically it was sound work, but aesthetically you didn't alter the image all that spectacularly to rank much more than "average," which at 50%, is pretty much where you landed after 841 votes.

Perhaps if you had put your "scientist" in more of an environment, say of a laboratory, or a hidden workshop, your concept would have read better and you would have gotten a better score. But for what you did, compared to all the other entries, I think you ranked correctly in this contest.

Don't let your hubris control you. It won't help here. To rank high, you have to show more than just good chop skills, you need your concepts to show good imagination as well.

Mossy B........No need to tell me how to rank high...i am an old timer here and used to be in the top 10 choppers at the old PST.
The problem is the voting system....people vote without understand what goes into the picture and i just dont have time to make a 10 step guide.

The concept in this pic was good and it should of scored higher.
53 % is an insult
Nothing to do with my Hubris controlling me.