Good idea, wrong perspective.

well it's depends how you play it

but thanks tho..

innovative

Here my opinion :
The main symbol of the puppeteer is that wood cross on which the strings are attached:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/?id=14803377&refnum=1647260&source=sxchu04&source=sxchu04
but i don't know where you could find a stock with that. If you do, it would improve the mood for sure.
You have 3 girls, all in white & all brunettes, which lowers the impact, cause of the same element repetition ( and not cause they're brunettes ) .
You could:
- either keep just one, controlled by two hands = more of a "being controlled" feeling.
-or have them all in different colors, neutral color on the foreground girl, & opposing colors on the other two.
- or one evil one good, one sad one happy, etc.
That would give a "playing with your mind feeling"

....master of puppets is pulling your strings
twisting your mind, smashing your dreams .... as the song i think it should have a darker feel, but that's just me

I have to agree with gornats, when I listed to this song i don't get a mental image of pretty ballerina girls.

Gornats: The song is about drug addiction. Hence I can see why people couldn't get the ballerinas, as opposed to drug addicts.

That's what I see when I'm on drugs; just wish I could see the strings maybe go around the fingers... Still like it!

This is pretty good and I really like the idea. The only thing that stands out that could be improved is the shadows for the mice. Regardless, good job and good luck!

Nice I like how you spread the saw dust

very cool work author...love the sparkle addition...u need a bit better shadow under the cat and would be cool if u could to avoid repetition of white mice's...any how i love it...gl

Very clever idea! In high res you can see some circular brush marks on the mice (if you lower the spacing on the brush and set the feathering high it helps avoid this) ... it is such a sweet image ... just a few minor improvements and it would be super

very cute ; )

The master looks great

great work author, love the siccors

Wonderful creepiness here indeed!

Wow!... I love this creepy mood... Nice work, author!

Creepy! I personally didn't notice the scissors until I read Se7eN0f9's comment which then prompted me to look more closely. More canvas on the right side to expose more of the scissors or bigger blades extending so they're in front of his near eye would lessen the likelihood of the scissors being overlooked.

that guys eyes are just plain old freaky... well done author

nice idea

Very interesting, good luck!!

right idea but the background is blurred a bit much