SBS? i'd love to see how this is made!

Author can you please list your sources for the snowflake and texture brushes (assuming you haven't made them yourself), and the santa hats.

No beard (s)?

i have listed all the sources!!! there are no textures, just brushes and hats! follow urls

sorry, i didnt see the source links in your sbs, I stand corrected.

HOW ADORABLE!!!!!

Nice chop! GL!

Even nicer avatar!

cute! It reminds me of an image that came in my Print Shop

glad you liked my picture! thank you!

It is too cute!!! You should really include a high res it can improve your score Best of Luck

Great Hi Res, looking good especially the lighting and shadow work, real nice.

went to vote on this earlier and it just left the screen, glad you uploaded sbs, looks good

its really cute!

Really nice lighting, shading, and composition! Very clean image, good luck!

http://10steps.sg/photoshop/draw-your-snowman-in-photoshop/
&
http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/2909/1/We-wish-you-a-Merry-Christmas-illustration
Its only fair to mention the tutorials used too

It feels so peaceful to look at it

Your "Silent night" looks like bright day.

Me: Right clicks on high res picture -> Use Image as Desktop Picture.

Fabulous composition! Wonderful use of tutorials. Looks like something you'd see of the back of a holiday card.

Looks very professional

A definite contender GL!

Although, "Winter Solstice" or "Winter Day" probably would have been a better fitting title (I see where you were coming from Bob) but I was so impressed I barely even noticed so GL!

now I can see this as a poster! Very nicely done

Perfect Christmas entry author...very well done...Instant fav from me

I know that little snow man, I was using that tutorial the other day. You did a very nice job here, love those snow covered hills.

Congratz!! You won. Well deserved! ^_^

this was my fav. from the beginning. well done.

Congrats ...........

Congrats, nice work

Congrats

Congrats...

Congrats!!

Congrats !

congs dude,,,,

Nice done,

Just Change the sky with real star image and pink light is not looking that good with composition.

Best of luck!

i like it ,sweet work

AdhirAnimator :
thank for opinion and i will fix it..

hazem :
thanks brother..

Its looking nice than before

very nice construction author...love the lighting on the main objects...GL

thanks erathion

Very nice, but reflection of the lamp in the water is always directed toward the viewer.

Very nice job!

Superficially extemely appealing BUT: The two-element water reflection doesn't have either of its elements match up with the single light source in the background. And the lopped-off top of that light source (apparently in the heavens) is kind of weird. In any event, the background light doesn't explain why the the foreground elements are lit from the front upper left (without any water reflection let alone creating any shadows BTW). The minimal use of the contest source strikes me as an inconvenient afterthought at best.

thanks DanLundberg ,
I improve my best...

Beautiful image... good work.... good luck author.

So cute! Great photos to combine with the source to create this.

Congrats! It a well deserving placement.

Congratulations for 2nd place!

Congratulations!

Congrats for 2nd place...

Congratulations on your 2nd place

Nice mood, the use of light looks nice. What bothers me a bit is the river, which looks a bit too drawn while the rest is more realistic. Try to give it a bit more perspective by making the river more subtle (more tiny further away) and think about which direction it would go if it's in such mountain like landscape (perhaps you wont see all of the river because it's partly behind a mountain). The river may also look more interesting if it wont start down in the middle but maybe more from the lower right corner (so that there's also something happening on the whole right side of your image). Up to you if you want to do something about it.. Good luck!

Thanks for your comments wazowski...

I will surely work on your suggestion!

Hay wazowski,

I have updated the river!

Certainly an improvement, imo. Good luck!

perfect mood...well done author

Thanks for your valuable comments!

Beautiful scene, lovely mood

Hay mate,

Really nice creation but I will suggest - work on shadow part and little bit tweak the sky, moon and girl detail.

Very nice scene author...lovely mood with great colors...i would recommend that add a bit more highlight on right side of the castle...mood is very close and castle should be just a bit brighter...best of luck author

Beautiful! Thanks a lot for using my castle

Cornelia, it is a pleasure for me to use your pics. They are so inspiring for these kinds of works... thanks to you, for allowing us to use them in our work.