In my opinion this is a great entry, the source photo blend with the other files used here is look very natural and create a magic composition , love also the color blend , black-red-grey-green who is a cathing eye combination!!!
Love this, good luck author and congrats for your skil and fantasy !

Amazing entry...top work...And now,lets guess the author...!?!

And yes...10 chocolate cakes for me cause without any doubt i guess the author...fantastic work...

Amazing, awesome and creative, ...fantastic

good

Really a lovely image, great!

Thought provoking and unique...love stuff like this. Perhaps if you gradually darken the bottom area of the closest heart being pulled a bit more it will give a bit more realism to that part....I kiss my fingertips to this!

Your little figurines are a fantastic find for this! What a sweet story, author - great entry.

awesome!

really creative imagination
good luck

Very cute and uplifting. Love the love mood here.

Beautiful and enchanting little world you have created. Truly well created and full of so many stories ... love the whole concept!

Thank you very much for all the lovely comments!

Congratulations for your first place, awesome work!!

congratulations...

Congrats Elke beautiful work

Congrats Elke, very nicely done.

congrattssssss

Congrats Elke

Congrats on first place Elke, well done!!

Congratulations Elke ... this is a wonderful image and just so lovely to look at over and over!

congratulations...

Ah, c'est Renée, en francais.
Great idea, nice touch with the wing made of fingers.
The first thing we learn in statue tutorials is to remove the eyes(iris), i think you should try it since you aimed to make a sculpture ( right?)
The pedestal should at least have some shadows to look like it's round, the way you made that pole.
There's a discontinuity from the shadowcast and the edge of the foreground. Just make the shadow on the wall continuosly at the bottom.
That little baby turned out well.

Hey thank you for the comment! I was going for statue, and knew that the eyes needed to be blank to complete that look, but I like it with the eyes. I may play around with it without the eyes and if it turns out cool I'll turn that in. As for the pedestal, I wanted it to be square, the pole is coming from the center of the squares. I will, however change the shadow, I noticed that as well, but I thought the black border would have taken away from that...guess I was wrong hehe.

Anyway thank you again for the suggestions, but I will have to say I like my final piece as is (except the shadow).

UPDATE: I changed the shadow, and decided to do the "statue eyes" because I thought it came out pretty well, although I like the old version too. More comments are welcome

I think this is outstanting , so creative. As well I love the wing, how cool is that!!!

Didn't see the original, but this is excellent. Great job.......gl

Thank you so much! I came up with the wing idea while I was making the bust. I was stuck on what to do after I got the heads done, and for some reason the idea of making a wing out of my hands just popped up (I get those crazy ideas from time to time). I'm glad you guys like it

very nice work author...gl

Your talent of seeing dolls in the sponge man it's fascinating,lol. The santa hats are kinda blurry. they could use more precise edges, the rest is cool

This is very sweet, creative use of source! I recall that idea of turning the source image upside down suggested to me, too.

HOW ADORABLE!!! I would have never though something so cuddly cute would come from that picture even though everytime I see that picture I see a sweet squichy sponge man! LOL

So so adorable = )

very cool work...gl

congrats!

Awwwww...how cutesy-wutsey.

strangely surreal. seems... off somewhere. perhaps its just that really weird angle of the shoe.. its making this all seem off kilter. however, its a great idea... and i love the tree you've chosen. along with the fruit...

Perspective problem. The foot in the source pic is shot at eye height, but in your image it's much lower. Good mood as usual, author.

omg I just can't get over your work! Totally amazing!

nice different work...good luck

i love it and it will ........,good luck

Very beautiful concept.

Excellent

Good image.

good luck.... you did a good job

Congrats!

Congrats for your second place, Matteo!

Congrats, very nice image.

congrats on 2nd prize...

Congrats!!

i never thought of this before!

Congrats man...

Super realistic! Well done.. a flawless result

The face expression is just cute :]

Great build and super idea

wow glad to see u after a long time

Absolutely stunning piece of work

Looks so real!! wonderful!!!

nice work but the cartoonish eyes are off putting and not as well blended as the rest IMO.

I think there's nothing wrong with the eyes; a snail has a pair of eyes with a black dot on them...
Very well done, author. GL!

this is very good

Very impressive and I love the eyes; give a whole personality that is perfect. I love the way you created a whole mood and story from just the source! Super!

Love the two little eyes with a very scarry expression...

Fantastic work author...great usage of the source image...i am glad u work again...best of luck

awsome work......best in this contest and first place for sure.....

great .......

Absolutely amazing work!

Cute space snail

Congrats on first place!

Congrats . . . .

Congrats on first place

congrats Abraham

Congratulations!

Congrats!!!

Enhorabuena amigo!! muy buena

Congrats for your first place, Abe!

Congrats!! Love this guy!