I would decrease the amount of the background and zoom the fish closer to the centre co it's bigger and easier to look at and in your case admire because the image is stunning!!

The fish is fantastic, but where did the two men come from? not mentioned in sbs, they just appear, as do the birds. This would make a wonderful illustration for a children's book.
EDIT: ah, now they're in your sbs, nice little paintings, too, author!

Just awesome.

thanks for the feedback, I'll consider your suggestions

edit: added more contrast to fish and farmer and added texture to fish's mouth

Perfect entry author...I really really love your imagination...U could add a bit more details to create feel of movement on a fish because u have that on a holding guy...just an idea...

@erathion I thought of doing that but I didn't want to ruin the fish :P Thanks for the suggestion

I'm speechless... It's simply great and funny!

grear work and idea

Great work, Author!

Congrats in advance for 1st.

Fabulous Author. Best of luck Author!

Super!!!

congrats.....

Congrats Kid, awesome work

Congrats.., great work

Congrats!

very deserving to win... congrats...

Congrats!

Congrats...great entry...

Congrats Kid

Congrats!!

thank you all

The dogs need some shadows, and i would also shrink them down slightly, they seem a bit too big at the moment. Watch out for opposing light sources too (the man and the dogs) I'd flip the man horizontally to match the lighting on the background.

Good luck

Or make the man bigger and add some shadows to the dogs.

very cool mood but i agree about the size of the dogs...i know is a bit to lat now, but this image had a lot of perspective....gl author

'Beautiful mood, very well done.

Very nice moody image author...gl

good lookin pic

I really like it more @ step 4............Good job, GL

Great image! I like it completed ...IMO the glow and lighting added after step 4 work. It is a different image without them; just as good but not as much on theme.

Nice image... but for me there are a few nit picks... your cutting out of the woman could be slightly cleaner, and I wish you hadn't used the other contest source for the box... a major flaw IMO.
other than that the colour is good!

Love the colors, the light effects, the box is amazing and focus all the attention, i really like this picture, good luck author !

Beautiful work wonderful concept!

There is no reason this shouldn't win... Just saying

Great image.

This image really shows us how painful the evil can be...

Very nice work author,and usage of the source image from the other contest is noot bad thing...Good luck

Thank you very much for comments and votes

Congrats!

Congrats mqtrf awesome work

Congrats...

this is awesome. Congrats, very much deserved!!!

Congrats on a lovely image!

Congrats! Fantastic work

Congrats!! Wonderful workmanship!!

Congrats mqtrf!

mmm good

author.. you put a TON of work into this... and I LOVE your SBS... Just a suggestion.. the detail in the sbs is amazing.. maybe try moving them closer together so the detail pops... (look at the depth you achieved in the SBS and work with that.. (your first group of steps look amazing.. )

Now this is IMHO but the potential with the detail you created in the sbs seems lost in the end result.. only because of the lack of compression and arrangement... (not a bad thing.. I just can see this becoming something even greater if you just give it a little push)

Great image (IMHO) I just see it becoming greater.. good luck

EDIT: It's a very neat image to look at in High Res... Practice your Burn Brushes on ONE side of each figure (Practice.. NOT upload a new image, just experiment.. they will help you learn how to make images bring in depth.. you have tons of great faces going on.. ) Great job.. and good luck

Drivenslush Thank You I did a redo of it is this what you meant I hope?

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.............. i really admire what u`ve done author... really really gud job...


i wud say SPLENDORFUL lol

@driven> really admire u guyz..
learnin a lotza frm wrkz , honest commentz n valuable suggestionz of artists like u...


anyways

gl author .. all the very best

jamespaul Thank You for the comments All I can say is I keep on trying ...lol

ty author for the encouragement...

gl again