Wonderful effect, really nice entry. Good work and good luck! (Excellent depth of field)

Almost flawless! Aside from the head, the use of the grass brush is very nice. Very convincing result. I just have a suggestion to slightly blur the edge beyond the ear, it's too sharp (especially when you create a shallow DOF like that). High score for sure

Really wonderful and so nice ...GL for you author

love it

Great job!

Thanks for the comments Fixed the sharp edges.

Great idea and execution. I especially like the cracks. Good luck!

awesome!!!

great entry... youre a real whiz at toning

All that work on the tree and you covered it back up!

Amazing job you did here!

Very nice creation........G/L Author.

Great great job Author...

brilliant work ....... all the best to u ..........

Great job author,really really good.Few minor observations,lighter part of the head needs a bit more shading,now when u watch high resolution looks a bit flat.And i don't understand step 10 in your SBS,how did u make grass,used some image,brushes?!?...Any how this is fabulous work and i wish u best of luck.

Thanks erathion. I fixed the SBS(used the grass brush) and I slightly added some shade to the image to give it some depth.

nice work!

Absolutely incredible!! I don't know what else to say =) Best of Luck

very talented

Top 3 for sure, well done

Wonderfully creative entry, I love it. GL to you!!

Thanks everybody

http://visualfeed.kybalion.es/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/paperworks__vegetarius__hpim1053_465.jpg...
source of inspiration?....

Nice clean image! Good luck!

No, not my source of inspiration, but it is an Interesting find genuine2009.

Thanks everybody

congr!!!!

A top 3 for sure

Thank you

congrats!!!!

Congrats, beautiful work

Grats Artist!

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats ! Very well deserved win !

Fantastic entry!!, congrats.

Congrats!

congrats ..............

Congrats!!

Congratulations!!

Congrats! Amazing work

congrats , very nice work

Congrats!

Well deserved 1st place!

Congratulations!

Congrats for 1st!

well done... congrats...

oh, well, that's predictable and I was right when I decided to give up joining this contest. I had the same idea as you but I didn't start when you submitted your work. Congratulations, you deserve that!

Thanks langstrum

Beautiful work...

great great work

Pretty fast submitted entry! I like the idea, you may want to mask the top of the pawn a bit better (some white edges here and there). Good luck!

Pretty good, but room for improvement!

Im not entirely certain, but wouldn't the shadow be bent outwards over the slope rather than inwards? - the shadow from the furthest tower is too dark in relation to the closest - and - maybe a little addition to some shadows from the terrain would help place everything better - especially from the mound covering the foreground tower as it's casting nothing...

Oh and the glare fom the bottom of the 'tower' it's not true to where you're placing your shadows from, so maybe get rid of it and add some highlights to the relevant side

Thanks for the comments.

Cool over all. I personally don't think the duplicate background towers add anything, however. Also, the palm trees look fake. And the hi-res version highlights the white edge around the tower's top and the fakiness of the tower-bottom and sand-dune edges.

The top of the tower still remains sharp and white spots are there . but this is a good image... you have to make some touches there... good luck...

Great but as above you could just try the matting controls, use the "layer" / "matting" from the top drop down menus and remove white matt or defringe to get rid of them, Then quick select and feather those edages slightly.

nice creation ................ i like it ........ Gl to u ..........

Thanks for the helpful feedback. Image is now complete.

Very nice, like the Pizatower, but in the mountains

I like it! GL!

yeah a much better image!?!... GL

i like the colder climate version!! great job!

This is why I don't participate in this contest

Nice work, and well done, gl

Very nice, good luck

Fantastic work author...IMHO u don't need other tower...any how this is great,high marks from me...best of luck

nice

Good.

GL

Thank you.

Super! It looks like the tower will fall out of the image at any moment

very nice

Beautiful!

There is a vertical line on the moon, perfectly straight, Might want to get rid of that. (high res)

Great job!

very good

very very froofy.. hehehehehe.. which I think is the whole point.. hehehe.. great job

fixed

Good work

nice

awesome!

Author, I think you should get rid of a black stroke on the left of the door (next to the cat's back). Also if you can make her hair softer (use smudge tool for example) and blur the scene behind the door a bit to be equal to the scene outside, it'll be better. Otherwise, that's a cool job

Really magic!

It looks like the cat is saying "If I could just get on top of her head!!!" hehehe.. very nice author

Thanks langstrum, updated as your suggesstion.

Great job! I like the cat

Great image author...i did not see previous version but this one is fantastic...My only nit pick is about girl's sharpness...Select the girl layer,contract selection for maybe 2 pixels,invert selection and use blur tool all over the selected part.Any how,this is fabulous work and high votes from me...good luck

Beautiful and serene

wow.... i am inspired.......

great work author

indeed nice feel to this and good luck

Love the kitty!

Wonderful entry........Good luck on your magical creation......

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

i love it! Such a great entry... gl

nice..gl