Too Pretty, and TOO WELL DONE!!! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

Good use of the source... like the blendings and the colors. GL......

bravo

Amazing use of the source! Very creative. GL

Congrats

congratulations!

Congrats!

Congrats for second my friend.

Congrats!!

Beautiful effect, but the text is too hard to read and distracting from the image.

nice work gl author..!!

this is fantastic author..love it

Very nice work, author. The type following the same curve as your penwork is a very retro element, and the floral elements and grunge effects, especially the dot pattern, brings me back to the 'old days' of printing.

Many thanks to all for the support

Congrats !

congrats...

Since the beak is kind of the defining aspect of the image, it's hard to discern the use of the source. Cute concept though...

yes MossyB i know what you mean but considering the number of entries that have barely or no resemblance to the source i think this is pretty decent .
thanks for the feedback
ps. for me the eyes are always most defining

edit: uh , someone is on a thumbs down spree

Hilarious, author, great job. And gee, he DOES have his daddy's eyes. Love that you even added hair to the razor.

ok you got me, first time I looked at him I smiled, the second time I chuckled ...great expression, the eyes certainly define it.... well done author

big ole grump!!! awesome

Very funny, you even added hair bits to the razor, now that's what i call "attention to details"!

lool...very funny
good luck!!

Now that is the softest rose I have ever seen, even the spines look friendly, great creative spin on it = )

'Feathery' roses - quite different! You might want to load high resolution, but even without it, the background could use a lot of cleaning up. GL

You gave life to a almost fading rose! And I give you congrats for the patience to do it only with mouse (it sucks, it's difficult...).
Do you know Genius Tablet? It's as good as Wacom but cheaper. I had a Japanese Wacom, but... it was stealed... Then I bought that one, because doing PS without a tablet!... oh Gosh!

its awesome.... really good....
add a high resolution image if you want mods to give you a good numbers...

fav

you can have my wacom tablet.... its not helping me out lol

Thanks for the comments guys :]
Added a high res img. (didn't know I had to check the box for that, heh).
I could probably clean it up more, for sure. But then again, I'm in no way good at drawing freehand. It was a bit hard for me to tell what was going on in parts of the source img.

@erikuri: Thanks for the tip! I've seen some cheaper ones out there, indeed. Think I'll buy one next week. Would make my life so much easier! And it's about time I got one

@Keiley22: lol. Sure, do you send to norway? Hehe

Thanks again for being nice to my first entry.

great use of smudge tool...well done author

Really lovely effect! It's a good thing you didn't overuse the mixer brush, you've kept a lot of the detail. Well done

cool

simple, but very good outcome!!!!