ZOW!

I think i know who made this... GL

CONGRATS!!!

congrats on 3rd great entry ... hard choice for placements.

Peaches are very well made, and realistic looking. Can't say the same for the leaves. I'd suggest modeling them after a realistic leaf to keep your image consistent. GL author.

CMYK: Thanks, I have to go out to the yard and look at a real leaf of a peach tree we have. I did this just thinking of a peach, and leaves, kind of hard to do this by heart. No reference used. Good idea!

Noooooooo!!!!
The surreal leaves are my favorite part after the beautiful shading on the peaches.
The background is a bit too intense for my taste, I'd soften it by decreasing the contrast very, very slightly, but leave the leaves be!
~M

Thanks MossyB: I just finished drawing more natural leaves, and look nice, but I will wait. I think you are right. Will soften the backgroud.... maybe desaturating it...a little?

Author.. if you put a gaussian disk in faded black underneath the bowl and burn it's bottom edge it will help with grounding the bowl .. another disk under the isolated fruit will help as well (IMHO), Overall, FANTASTIC image! Good luck

Beautiful image author...Whole creation is top notch...High marks from me and i wish u good luck...

STEP 19....Shows my first final image. The leaves were changed to the ones I have in my final now. So, you'll get an idea of what the image looked before.

Mossy, I am sorry I had to go with the realistic look leaves. The image looks better, I think, thank you for suggesting about background, it is desaturated now.

CMYK: You got it! Leaves look nice. Driven, the basket / peach are grounded now.

Erathion: thanks.:-

GL author!

Great job on the peaches (they almost look fuzzy) and the new leaves , author!

Beautiful work author! Looks like a painting!

Interesting use of the contest source. A bit too high contrast, but well thought out.

Sperm Brushes? Seriously? Bwhaaa haa haaa haaa.. what will they think up next LOL (good luck author, you may want to show the actual Mitosis so the image is easier to understand,, but that is just me

(Sperm Brushes?.. still giggling)

Very pretty, ingenious compilation of your sources. Some very good creation techniques used. The mandolin and the way you made the table cloth from the lace in particular. Good luck and congrats for a very nice piece.

As lchappell noted, the mandolin and lace table cloth are very creative creations.

I think the shadows need refinement, however. The apple half should cast more shadow on the fruit that should cast more shadow on the mandolin that should cast more shadow on the wall. Furthermore, a shadow should be very intense (just one or two pixels wide) immediately under an object to ground it so it doesn't appear to be floating above the surface it's sitting upon. As the shadow extends away from the object, the shadow should be a gradient because ambient light weakens the shadow the farther away it gets from the object.

I would explore moving the painting northwest so it goes outside the frame of the image and has a greater overlap with the mandolin. Centering a table under the picture would also seem a more natural decorating choice. (An alternative would be to take the painting off the wall and rest it on the table.)

beautiful scene author...best of luck

very well done good luck author

Yeah good job, I can almost smell that flower.

Lovely! Need the uncut original source...

the original source is given in the SBS. Hope it's not a problem

Step 1 of the SBS is described as "parts used from the image" but that source image is never provided, let alone shown to be an acceptable source for use on PXLEyes.

look carefully under the first image in the SBS, there is a link provided of the source image

Oops, my bad!

wow, amazing work

beautiful work............ and awsome concept........... really liked it...

it looks familar to me. I love hwo the face stands out from the background. It gives almost a 3d feel

goodluck.

Fantastic piece of art author...very well done

beautiful image!

Beautiful entry author....GL!!

Congrats!!