Good job man

URP!! hehehe.. (My boss had this problem) awesome work author (Love how you took an impossibly blurry photo and merged so well.. )

awww, thanks
and slush, thats where i have to say, i didn't actually merge it. just used it as a base to build the rest of the face. i needed a reference for the mouth after countless tries to get it done...i found that picture in a folder of "throw away" style shots, and figured..hey...thats about right. :lol: and painted from there. it was a layer all of its own and just used to base the rest of it.

Perfect! It seems that his chin was always there, I mean, of course he has a chin, but we couldn't see it 'till now.

He must have had the hot sauce at Taco Bell

very nice work!

Nice effects with the plane. (Did I say nice?)

ahhh dontcha just hate when vandals graffitti the secure black box on an airplane lol, nice idea though... Good luck author

Haha geexman I already thought of that But I was short on time so couldn't adust it anymore...

Guess you'll have to use your imagination !

Thanks for comments !
greetss

Very nice job getting the plane behind the flames!

Thanks pearly

Very very cool idea...Good luck author

Congrats!

Congrats!!

Thank you guys

Congratulations!

WHOA!! Amazing job with the robot...and the abstract background is awesome. Well done!

Which will be the future of the tiny leaf?...
Very cool work, the coloring is really powerful! GL!...

Thank you, this is how I feel sometimes, like I'm that little plant trying to survive against all odds.

Fantastic! It's beyound imagination

this is incredible, just what i've come to expect from you author!

Thank you Cornelia, and Tuckinator you are going to make me work harder now, lol. Thanks again.

Really? 6 out of 12 - I'm very disappointed. I would love to know why.

Yeah, I'm disappointed too...sorry, author. Contests can be really unfair.

Thanks gamemastertips. I already got over it. Is just that I know how much time I put in to this piece, and the meaning behind it, but I guess it wasn't that evident. I will try harder next time = )

...I found the Garuda but I don't see the piano. Or the fingers. Or anything that could possily be asscociated with the source picture.

wow, I found the "Garuda", rhinos, and elephants. hehehe. continue to learn with that filter. because it is so amazing.

NIce abstraction. But IMO, I think that in case of a CBR, a sbs would help a lot the voters (well, I suppose everybody wants to see how you used the source image.)

It is a nice image and I do like the background treatment but as gamemastertips points out the image isn't really source dependent. A similar image could of been created from any number of sources. I've always felt that the point of a source contest was to create something unique to that source. Abstracts are nice but I'm more impressed with the clever use of a contest source where you can see the elements of the original image.
BTW you do need to post a step by step, it's required when no outside sources are used.
(see rules and guidelines 5.4)

Thanks a lot for the tips, comments, and compliments.. Will do my best to improve my designs =)

As for the step-by-step, sure.. i'll try to do that too... ^^

agree with spaceranger.

added an SBS now... I'm not so good at making SBS, though...

CBR'd

hahah i like it!

ahahhahaha cool

And computers too, if you don't know how to make a good use of them...