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Smuggler's Haven - created by violscraper


Smugglers Haven
Favs: 0SBS: 7Hi-resRank: 4/14Score: 63.1% (20)18745 views

(5 years and 3088 days ago)

5 Sources:

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Gnome Haven - created by migue1ito


Gnome Haven
Favs: 5SBS: 7Hi-resRank: 5/14Score: 58.1% (30)11093 views

(5 years and 3224 days ago)

5 Sources:

avatar erathion
erathion says:

what a great thinking author...amazing entry...all elements are perfect...well done man

avatar pearlie
pearlie says:

This is adorable! Very clever, author.

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Keiley22 says:

fantastic....... definately going into my favs lol

avatar George55
George55 says:

Good imagination....very nice work...GL

avatar artgirl1935

Really clever - you've quite an imagination and good technique! GL

avatar greymval
greymval says:

Great design & execution. This looks like a high level entry indeed.

avatar 510SAM
510SAM says:

I really like this entry. Great job.

avatar Floortje1973

Whahaha.. Very nice image author! What about the nudity thing I keep hearing about? There is someone's bare bottom hanging out and that is ok?? Love what you did, great execution and imagination.

avatar pixelkid
pixelkid says:

Creative use of the source!

avatar MnMCarta
MnMCarta says:

Very creative!

avatar jadedink
jadedink says:

Hahahah oh wow author! You did a fabulous job here! I love the little gnome trailor park

avatar gotmeamuse

Awesome creativity!

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No Safe Haven - created by arca


No Safe Haven
Favs: 9SBS: 20Hi-resRank: 3/14Score: 63% (25)14978 views

A little dark. Thought something haunting would be appropriate for coming up to Halloween.

It is a visual depiction of horrors and sense of entrapment Mental Illness can cause.

Thanks to Rebecca-parker stock for the model. Other images used are my own.

SBS is a described Animated GIF and the images used. (5 years and 3319 days ago)

1 Source:

avatar lolu
lolu says:

Fantastic ! love the contrst between the grey and the orange/red

avatar Ressiv
Ressiv says:

Very nice scene! I also like that you've used mostly your own images. One think you could work a little on; the transition between de fore and background. They don't look connected. You could at least blur the far end of the bridge/edge since the back is blurred too. And maybe make the front part of the mountain where the bridge is touching it grey too like the foreground. Good luck!

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Keiley22 says:

awsommmme... love the hands through the path and even teh girls hair is cool... well put together author great peice of art work here

avatar donarkz
donarkz says:

A.W.E.S.O.M.E

author says:

Sorry it took me so long to get to this. I have been out of town and did not have access to a sort of took Ressiv's advice but instead of softening the end of the bridge ... which I had don a little already I sharpened the mountain just a bit so it would me the same sharpness as the bridge where it connects. And I added a little gray to the portion of the mountain.

I did not want to soften the back ground too much as I wanted to have a more surrealistic look than "natural" I hope I have achieved that???

avatar langstrum
langstrum says:

Agree with the others' opinions. About the background I don't think you have to work more on it, now it's fine. The purpose of using the shallow DOF is making the main subject standing out. In your case, the path behind her has the pattern which is uniform enough to lead the focus to the girl, so it's okie, not mention that you also achieved the surrealistic look . But I still have some questions for you, author. Why the hair is longer than her left hand when they have equal position horizontally (I mean both of them are limited by the ground, so the end of the hair should be higher or equal to the left hand, which is a bit in front of the hair). Why the statue hands behind her have the long, straight, and sharp shadows but she has just blurry and not clear shadow (the hair needs shadow on the ground also)? The last thing is the nails of the statue hands look distorted too much.
All in all, the first impression on this work is very good, especially the wise use of color and smart composition. You really have not only the good skill but also the artistic eyes, congrats!

avatar spaceranger

Love it! Spooky feeling of horror without the blood and gore! Beautiful rendering!

author says:

Langstrum ... thank you so much for all your advice.

I have redone the hair (shorter and now melting into the ground like the hands), softened the shadows on the hand statues and added missing hair shadow! For the distorted hand statues I touched them up a bit but I am trying for a sinister, surrealistic look and want them to be odd... so left them quite warped.

Regarding her body shadows ...the shadow is not as sharp as the hand statues because she is between the buildings and the light is not getting to her (this was intentional, to depict the darkness and claustrophobic feeling of being trapped inside a mental illness). I also avoided strong shadows on the statues in the corridor around her for the same reason.

The lighting is off on the whole image to some degree. I wanted it to be nightmarish so I tried to make things not quite "right". So, just like in a dream where everything is off but still feels real I thought that the lighting and shadows was a good area to mess with, if you know what I mean???
Thanks again for your well thought out critiques ... great help!

avatar Mario
Mario [banned] says:

beautiful

avatar nanaris
nanaris says:

good luck!

avatar swordfish
swordfish says:

great ........

avatar Siddhartha

WELL DONe !!

avatar jaskier
jaskier says:

Very good,dark scene.

avatar pearlie
pearlie says:

Excellent, love it, very timely for Halloween.

avatar erathion
erathion says:

Very cool work author...this look like one very scary place...best of luck

avatar velkanx
velkanx says:

Congratulations

avatar erathion
erathion says:

Congrats...fantastic entry,well deserved in hard competition...well done

avatar loopyluv
loopyluv says:

Congrats! wonderful work!!!

avatar artgirl1935

Congrats!! A wonderful, creative entry!! A real winner!

avatar langstrum
langstrum says:

Congrats Arca, ENCORE!

avatar spaceranger

Congrats!!! Really love this work!

avatar Geexman
Geexman says:

Congrats & very well done Arca.... hope to see more!

avatar EmiK
EmiK says:

Congrats, another great creation =)

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Birds Haven - created by DigitalDreamer


Birds Haven
Favs: 6SBS: 5Hi-resRank: 2/14Score: 64.4% (30)11238 views

This was an old entry I had done, I have made some changes that I wasn't able to complete at the time when the older contest ended.

*Fixed the grass some of it looked duplicated around the edges

*I couldn't fix the red hue where the sun was shinning on the tree, it's not red it's just sunlight, :( I did try but it just didn't work well.

*those were all the sbs steps I had saved I couldn't find the others. There should of been one where it showed the part where I added the back and the blending of the pillars.

*I changed it a bit brighter seemed a bit dark

*I also added another part of the building to go behind it sorta to give the image more depth

8/18/09 sorry haven't had time to make the changes I would have sooner

I changed it a bit darker to give an almost night effect up top and added stars and a falling star in the top right corner

I also hope that I fixed the depth in the bricks

Thanks guys for all your input
Thakns to chris gin @ flickr for the tree

and to alharaca @ deviant art for the bird brushes (5 years and 3754 days ago)

2 Sources:

avatar ponti55
ponti55 says:

Very nice image.. good job

avatar nemanja
nemanja says:

Vry nice how you worked the inside of the tower...

avatar Tuckinator

OMG this entry is flawless no suggestions here you dont need em!

avatar RichieMB
RichieMB says:

I remember this one, it looks more fantastic than it did before, great magic.

avatar elficho
elficho says:

author this is beautiful!

avatar k5683
k5683 says:

you did a great job taking the bricks out.

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Nice image

avatar PSA2009
PSA2009 says:

Beautiful image!!! I love it... Excellent work author... if i can find just 1 thing that doesnt work... its that the bricks seem paper thin, but otherwise, LOVELY!!!

avatar KEVIV
KEVIV says:

great one,,,,,

avatar OliviasArts

nice work there author, did a good job on those bricks and i love the background as well.

avatar thomasms
thomasms says:

Cool

avatar RickLaMesa

excellent everything

avatar ReapRevenge
ReapRevenge [banned] says:

congrats lovely work !!!

avatar Lelaina
Lelaina says:

Congrats for your second place, Angela!

avatar nasirkhan
nasirkhan says:

Congrats!

avatar nishagandhi

congrats

avatar RichieMB
RichieMB says:

Congratulations for 2nd.

avatar spaceranger

Congrats!

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A Guide to Star Haven - created by JamesD


A Guide to Star Haven
Favs: 3SBS: 9Hi-resRank: 1/14Score: 59.8% (35)9720 views

Every morning, before the sun comes up a guide 'guides' the stars back to safety... to 'star haven'


View in High Res for a better viewing (5 years and 3782 days ago)

1 Source:

avatar elficho
elficho says:

very nice! i've noticed a dark vertical line on the snow (just right of the nun) so just fix that it's more visible in high res

avatar CMYK46
CMYK46 says:

Looks great! Just one small nitpick: the star trail seems to go through the moon, not around it...

avatar princessSK

very cute idea ..

author says:

re: first two comments... ill see if I can get the ammendments done in time for the deadline!!...

avatar LKY
LKY says:

awesome use of source....amazing...GL

avatar Tuckinator

cool

avatar gopankarichal

nice work

author says:

*** I have fixed the line in the right, and fixed the star trail and moon problem ***

avatar fille
fille says:

what planet is so close to moon... ow! cool!

avatar ReapRevenge
ReapRevenge [banned] says:

nice!! good luck author

avatar CMYK46
CMYK46 says:

Congrats...great pic!

avatar RichieMB
RichieMB says:

Congratulations for 1st

avatar pixelkid
pixelkid says:

Congrats! Well done!

avatar Lelaina
Lelaina says:

Congrats! Beautiful picture

avatar madamemonty

Congrats, nice work

avatar nasirkhan
nasirkhan says:

Congrats!

avatar devangel
devangel says:

Congrats for 1st

avatar loopyluv
loopyluv says:

Congratulations!!!!

avatar chakra1985

Congratulations!!!!

avatar nishagandhi

congrats!!

avatar CorneliaMladenova

Congratulations on the top place

avatar SOLARIS
SOLARIS says:

congrats

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