Wonderful work. What great character you have captured with these three. You can hear them plotting.
The background with it's gritty texture works so well. Almost looks like it was drawn with charcoal which considering that I see them as Coal miners seems very appropriate.

i like it ,good luck

nice work! love the creation of 3 people

very different from ur usual work love this

great work

Which is the second step of them three?

Very nice

Fantastic entry...mood is simply amazing...well done

Really creative work on the statues, love that you used the parrot's eye! and that you left just a little color in the three men, and kept the bkgd in grayscale.

Beautiful!- a favourite

Not sure what it is that I really like about this but Man I really like this!! Maybe it's the contrasts or something...Love it Good Luck

nice

Love the overall feel. Suggestions: In the high res, your ships are quite blurry compared to the rest of the image. I'm not sure what you can do without changing you sources images (obviously not preferable), but they are noticably out of focus. Also, the front ship is partially transparent where it meets the waves. This is okay for the waves in front, but looks a bit peculiar for the waves behind. Good job and good luck!!

very nice entry

heaven is great! good luck!

I really love the picture though in reallity open ocean never breaks in such a neat parrallel to the horizon, that ship would be in a billion bits on the shore... though it only effects us peeps that live near/on the ocean..(My two cents because of the dedication to realism in the image) GREAT WORK

Over all I like this entry. In high res the wtaer is very sharp, while the people are blurry...maybe a slight gaussian to the water layer to even things out?

Go colompus

IMHO you would have been better off using a real stormy sky. This looks like just what it is: a bunch of brush stamps. Good color work on the water.

Great Work Author........Good Luck.

The light on the big ship seems to be coming from the right, the source photo has a left-side light source, and the bright spot in your clouds suggests possibly a third light source. I think this would be more dramatic if the big ship's sails weren't so bright.

Good job, clean up where the boat and the waves meet they are kind of off. Love the color.

good work with ship! but clouds definitely not good... sorry... GL

hail the sail

looks very nice

Nice image, the background with other ships is pretty convincing! Good luck!

Looks much better!! Great job!!

nice feel

Nice! The waves around the ship could be better, now it looks a bit as the ship is being dropped.

you did very well, keep going