WOW... the road is KILLER.. almost feels like you could lick it..hehehe...SUPER DUPER nick pic, you have so many wondrous textures that the text in the sign is a bit of a let down.. maybe make the word Entering out of the candy land font you used, rasterize it and make it white with a bevel emboss and drop shadow.. do the same with the Candy Land word (bevel,emboss,dropshadow so it matches all the magical textures you've captured... IMHO... ) Kudo's all around.. very fun image

EDIT... YEAH!!!!.. now the sign makes perfect sense.. GREAT JOB

you just ruined my Diet................. rofl.

Well done, You really brought the colours out well and made a very nica image. I agree that the sign looks a little tacked on but otherwise great!

Will work on the sign tomorrow. Thanks for the good suggestions.

I was thinking about doing something like this too. Oh, well. So much for that idea. Looks good. Good luck!

lol really nice i was going to do one like that but wasnt sure how to pull it off

Driven, you have pushed me into really working on techniques for embellishing text. I think it really did make a world of difference (after 3 hrs), and I thank you for the shove!!

Very good, GL

great result. Good luck

Great!

Fantastic!

Congratulations on the end result, you little of the original photo but did a great job. This is a Matte Paiting original.

well done.good luck

Great detail..

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats for 2nd place.... you have brought back my sweet tooth :p

Congrats for your second place, Artgirl!

Congraaaaaaats!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the votes and nice comments all!

the emptiness of the center really does make the point... AFTER you've read the description.. with the description it works.. with out it.. I thought the was a baby picture frame (sorry) my only suggestion if you changed the espression on the face to look into the dead space with an air of longing that would make the description unnecessary.. but that's just me.. LOL. this is your vision author (I do hear the piece quite well now)

If you look at the penultimate step of my guide you can see the expression that i originally had for it, but the reason for the smile was to illustrate the fact that many people who are in that situation always seem happy on the outside, no matter how much they are breaking up inside. I don;t blame you for believing that it was a baby picture.. that's what i wanted to show, the way that certain things can completely break you down into childhood. While i haven;t had any experience myself with substances like these, i had a friend who never told us anything, but always seemed normal and playful

and one day.. she was just gone.. Thanks GolemAura for the comment, but i hope this cleared things up.

Love the message you are going for and I agree with Golum about not really "getting it" until you read your description...IMO I would show somehow that what looks to be "candy" is just the opposite it's POISON and I don't think that is coming across..Keep working it and Good Luck

Thanks

great

Cheers!

lol cool

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S. Thompson

I'm glad they worked out for someone at least!

Thank you

good idea