nice job author!

I like the colors ,very nice

beautiful

It reminds me on kindergarten,teachers gives us papers similar to this to draw with pastels...

Great job... congratulations... I liked the colors, too...

I think that's great! Hope I can do half as well...

Very beautiful presentation of Cubism. GL!

very very awesome1

good entry!

Love the mood you have created here, and the colors and technique. Very well done.

U did fantastic job author...one of the best for sure...best of luck

Great entry and superb use of the doll reference image!

lovely interpretation of cubism.. wonderful work!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

Really creative

Congratulations for the 1st. place!

Congratulations!

Awesome work Dustfinger, Congrats

congratulations... I loved it...

Congrats on first place - well deserved!

Congrats! for 1st

Congratulations...Nice!

Congrats on this amazing piece of work...well done...

congrats!!!

Congrats!!

Congrats!!!!

Nice!......looks good to me.

yes, very good example of the theme... LOOK AT THIS IMAGE PEOPLE! great image author!

nice start

Interesting kick-off entry. The face and hand seem too 3D, however, as I think of cubism as really flat -- and likewise all the black creates very distinct background and foreground levels which isn't particularly flat either. I believe the texture in the tutorial was merely meant to reflect the canvas the image is supposedly painted upon. Thus I feel the multiple, non-canvas textures here say 'collage' more than 'cubism' (or maybe this is nouveau cubism?). Also, I don't see the guitar shape, so until I saw your title, I was thinking lute.

coool !! g l

Cubist is as Cubist does.. it is the pulling apart of any subject and reassembling in the abstract after analyzing of course... Great job... many forms.. many styles.. no strict rules..

(placing severe rules on cubism is like trying to put hand cuffs on a stream of water while encased in cement made from oatmeal)

Good luck author

(a Lute and a guitar are BOTH Strings... they are in the same family and they would be placed in the same section in an orchestra)

I agree with Drivenslush. I should have been looser on the stringed instrument...but pianos are stringed instruments and just didn't want to go there The moderators will have final say obviously. I think this is fabulous. Thanks for starting us off with a nice showing. BTW, I look at the tutorial as a guide for beginning PSrs (such as myself) and not meant as the driver of this challenge.

Synthetic Cubism was not so flat. Of course, this is NOT synthetic cubist work, but I saw some paintings in Wikipedia, and some of them are quite recognizable, inside Cubist context. Someone, correct me if I'm wrong.

Author this is a fine piece of work. I see guitar written all over it, a six string classical one as a matter of fact. I do not know where the "lute" observation came from, hard as I try I can't see a lute in this picture. I actually like the textures and the way you have used them...KUDOS

this maybe a master

I like this 1, and it just came to my mind the first time looking at this, this work maybe by a master just like RickyRuckus said,.....good luck... my fav is too

Thank you all, guys! But I'm still learning, you make me blush...

Very very nice clean work author...well done

great job, tia.. I loved it.... It s one TOP SEVEN... congratulations

Congratulations!

Congrats!, very nice work

congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats

Congrats!!!!

This is a nice design, however that script is hard to read even at the 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" on my monitor, so bus. card size would be very difficult. The name in script is ok, but enlarge it, and maybe change the Guitar Lessons to a simpler font, maybe sanserif, also enlarged. I like the pic shape behind the type.

Thank you for your comment and suggestions.. I agree the script was hard to read.. dunno why i didnt catch that... lol.. hope the changes are easier on the eyes

Great thing author...best of luck

i like this

gud luck athor........... .......... nice work ...........

The Guitar is a nice touch. GL!

Pretty good, but fix the eyes so they're even...

you flipped the guitar with the eye and all in it? there is still mustache under the e-string at the top. you flipped half the image... it doesnt seem to fit the contest requirments, "turn ONE item in the image upside down. The item turned upside down has to fit into the image smoothly. Its former location has to be manipulated to match the original background flawlessly." if the item flipped is the guitar, then the face should be manipulated... if you flip the eye (which is cool) then the guitar should be manipulated. the shadows in the guitar are all "under", shadows on the face "over"

It's obvious you didn't flip the eye too. Do this, copy the other eye and eyebrow, free transform, flip horizonal and put it in place of the left.

You can Tune a Guitar, but can you tuna fish?