Good image, but try to work on some of the edges on the stick & figure. A soft blur brush will fix most of them. And since it's dark, the upper part of the figure could be less saturated...color fades in the dark. GL author.

Besides what Bob said, if he's a Hobbit shouldn't he have hairy feet?

Edges of hair on feet ain't hairy, and you haven't done anything to refine the edges mentioned above.

The light and shadows in this are kind of all over the place, though I can appreciate the difficulty. I really like the concept, but otherwise I'm not quite sure what to make of it.

Maybe you could've moved the model slightly to the right then made the bottom left mushroom bigger, therefore making it cast more light. I find if I'm having trouble lighting a scene it helps to have a dominant light source to fool the eye.

It also helps to selectively blur/sharpen parts of the image to mimic the way humans perceive things i.e. I know the dude is the focus of the image but while I'm looking at him my brain is still noticing how sharp the background and buildings are and therefore it feels as if something is a bit wrong. Hope that makes sense!

Creating an entry is a lot of work so I understand your decision to stop revising. But for the future, I would note that a Rule-of-Thirds (rather than centering) composition can be more dramatic (and might have yielded a compelling diagonal arrangement here if your hobbit were moved to the right and the little mushrooms were in the middle). [BTW the horizon line of the lamp at his feet doesn't seem to match that of the other elements.]

Congrats Randy!!

Thanks!

Congratulations.....!

Congrats!!!

The lighting works well. Try to align the horizontal bar on the cross with the perspective of the windows.

good luck

Very nice, tranquil scene and very well made!
(BTW I noticed the changes may not appear in the normal view when you first look at it. If you leave the page, refresh and go back it shows correctly.)

Lovely colors used and peace of the scene. Good luck!

Congrats George, great 2nd place

Congrats!

Congrats yet again George!!

Congrats!

Hey...congrats to you too.

Congrats George.

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I like the mood
specially the sweat simple and effective gradients

GL

I think the image is very well done and the SBS is really good but the source use is so minimal it has no impact on the end result. I feel the Mixed Media contest would have been more appropriate for this piece IMHO.

Very emotional... great entry.

Looks good, very difficult to see the source image though.

Nice work and nice SBS! Good luck author.

Beautiful image and impessive SBS.

Beautiful image, author. Glad I checked your sbs.

Congrats!

Congrats, very nice work

Congrats!!

congrats

Very Nice! Congrats

This just brightened my day!

wow this is so cute!!!

happy shiny people

Colorful at its best!!! great chop!
High marks!.

lol, nice.

VEry well done. I love the happy atmosphere here =)

beautiful colors...the only thing missing is a lens blur in the background for a little depth but still a winner

ha ha thanks author!

Sweet chop, great for a kid's book. Cute copywriting, too.

Congrats Space sooooo cute

Congrats on your well-loved piece!

Congrats and good luck with the kid's book projects.

You totally cheated in the SBS on your eye construction.. LOLOLOLOL (hehehe I knew they were yours LOL) great job and congrats

Thanks to all! Special thanks to kyricom for contributing the contest source image.

hey congrats!!

Congrats

Congrats

Congrats for a beautiful and entry!