nice idea author...gl

Nice eyes Best of Luck

thanks :>

GREAT!!!! I love it! GL

This is really sweet! Good SBS, too...but IMHO step 10 is overkill. Step 9 looks great.

Stunning work. All that time with the pen tool paid off, this is awesome!

Really great job! Very nicely put together..

great first entry, good luck!

siuper!!!

Stunning, love it...x GL

it is amzing and so sweet ,good luck

Stunning work and amazing finished image. Your friend is a very lucky person to have someone create a lovely image like this for her! Hi marks from me and a fav! Very good SBS too ...IMO.

Wow! Just curious, how much time did it took you to so this? Seems like hard work.

Thanks everyone, Arca yeah my friend was very excited! and Greymval it definitely was a lot of work! I kept coming back to it for about three days before I was satisfied

fantastic work author.... Superb entry

WOW, Great work!

That is awesome!

Wow!!! Love this creation. I will have to try to do this with my picture one day. The little stars are a perfect touch, and I like that her eyes are closed, just magic all around.

This is absolutely beautiful. I love how it looks like she's porceline. Its so smooth and shiny looking! The colors are magnificant. Great, great job, author. I too want to try this someday

mind blowing...very high marks from me

great ..........

Very well done anime! Fabulous design. GL!

Congrats, a stunning piece of work

Congrats for your first place, Robart!

Oh YAY, Congratulations, definitely deserving

Congrats...

Thank you for the high marks guys

Congrats!! Beautiful work!

Don't take this wrong, but it's kind of like a "plain filter entry". Since there's no (more) rule about posting filter entries, i guess you can do that, but make it more interesting.
You could: use different tonalities of blue, like a mosaique; make a blue dust cloud that swallows the image, make a floating in the sky shack, etc. Make it cooler.

LOL! "Plain filter entry." Funny after all these years filters still are so denigrated.

Yes, I could have made this a CBR and then applied filters, but I was inspired by a two-page Adidas Ad in Sports Illustrated, that simply embossed a building, made it gold, and put a frame around it, with a photo of Derrick Rose in a gold suit with two fistfuls of money on top...So I played with the emboss filter and a few effects. The Fractalius effect provided a nice pseudo-linework effect, with a bit of color for accent.

Sometimes, "less is more." After 15 years with Photoshop, having been to the extremes of "filters are EVIL," and seeing the "chopped beyond recognition," "warped out of shape," "desaturate it and make it too dark to see," and "add exploding bits and light swirls," forms of "trendy" chopping, I'm now starting to see filters making a quiet comeback. They might not be as "interesting," but that doesn't mean they're not cool. Especially when you don't just click the button, but add gradient masks, adjust contrasts, and work with multiple layers. When Adidas takes out two pages for a colored emboss with a frame on it, I figure subtle is okay, sometimes...

No offense taken, greymval. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

honestly its nice but for the contest i dont think that this is the right entry.. no offense i know you know what it takes to win a competition.

It might be "just filters", but it's an interesting use of them. I like the monochrome with blacks.

ART comes in different kinds of shapes, colors and forms. I think, "even" if you used a filter or a "bevel and emboss" for your work. I love the blue colors and the outcome of your work. Good luck.

I would not like to have an elephant like this in my dreams......lol.... good luck author.

A mammoth warrior elephant ... reminds me of the olephaunts from LOTR ... or at least the ones I in my head (yes, I have olephaunts in my head ... that is why there isn't a lot of room for other stuff). Very cool chop!

And where is Hannibal...