this is a pretty neat idea author.. way out of the box.... you may want to try and get rid of that orangy red stroke line around the top... it defeats the realism a bit (IMHO).. you may also want to reverse the burn dodge on one of the towers so that the shading matches the angle of light (it's not really that important, but I've noticed if you don't correct the lighting on a subject many members have a snit)

Good luck.. and great idea..

Thanks Drivenslush. Think, I should get rid of the orange outline.
Yeah, I appreciate your view about lighting. It took 15 hours work to reach here. Maybe, my eyes got color saturated. Will work on it. Your advice is to the point. Thanks again.

very interesting concept...construction is well made and as Ernest sad i will to remove orange stroke...best of luck

Excellent tenacity .. wish you major luck

Thanks Drivenslush !!

As Drivenslush has already pointed out, the lighting on half of your image is wrong. When considering making a realistic style image such as this, lighting is important. Check out this valuable tutorial: http://www.psdbox.com/tutorials/manipulation-secrets-3-shading-and-lighting/

Thanks CMYK46. Link is truly eyeopener.

Not sure if it's intentional or not, but you have a brown outline at the top of each building. If you remove those and soften the edge a bit it would help. Nice image and great imagination too.

Thanks pixelkid for the suggestion.

Cool idea, somehow reminds me of the architecture in Dubai.

Corrected the picture aided by suggested expert comment from Drivenslush about red line. Hatss offf.
CMYK46, I like your critically hurting yet actual comments. I tried to correct the lightings. Hope you think it is ok now.
pixelkid, the red line came through copy layer styles, think now, it wasn't appropriate, so removed it.
Thanks erathion, sweetest and in my opinion, a very creative person in my pxleyes world.
Thanks pearlie, you always shows way to do the better way in a very honest and unhurtingly factual way, you did to me and I also read many of your comments to other pictures

Beautiful

Nice work! I only see one eye in the reference pic, though.

Wonderful work. . Nice to see you back .

Nice result. CMYK has a point (not sure though if it was meant as eyes), but you can keep it like 2 eyes (as if he's looking at you), but in that case you have to put the antennas a bit different (now the head would look too twisted). For the rest I agree with Nasir . Good luck!

Hi all. Thanks for the suggestions and comments. Actually the eyes, I deliberately created like that. The antenna position I'll rework ASAP. Thanks again for the useful comments.

wonderful detail -- shadow and lighitng look very nice

color scheme is flawless

Nice creation of the insect! One thing with the colors, the background is kinda covering the insect, that it doesnt stand out but gets lost in the back ground. I think it will look more powerful if you gave the insect just one color that stands out. Maybe just silver + a little yellow. Good luck!

i agree with Ressiv's comment..IMO, step 11 in the sbs is way better..but nonetheless, good work and GL!

kalaki.....

VeryGood...............

Thank you Ressiv & fatz8016 for the suggestion. I incorporated those corrections. Thank you.

Very nice entry. Is it done completely in photoshop? Whatever amazing end result. Best of luck.

Very nice entry. Is it done completely in photoshop? Whatever amazing end result. Best of luck.

Much better

This is a wonderful entry! I especially like the spring between the foreleg and wing. There was a lot of careful work done here. Very well done!

All the things that were said above! Amazing work...

just....WOW! O__O

awesomeness

Good work.

Great job looks sexy. would be more impressed if you made the image and not used the photo.

Congrats...

Congratulations! If you have the time, please enter more often. I really like your work.

Congrats! for 3rd place. Great to see your work in top 3. As IDt8r say, entertain us with your more great stuff.

Thank you all for the support.

congrats

Congrats for a great work!

Congrats!!

need shadow there...

you need to put the shadow layer under the insect!

nice

great to see this again

Yes, I agree with Nisha, great work.

i really like it, i just feel like the source is completely unrecognizeable. Good luck though! High marks from me

wow

Really nice work.

i already start know your style,"simply different and very good",congrats for u and good luck

fine

Niceee!

very different and nice work

Congrats! Great entry!!!

ok...

grasshopper man - he is so fleecy, i imagine how wind loves to play with him:P and he is happy as we can see

good

hahah funny

Weird

suits for a children's book good job author