Well smack my bottom and call me Christmas... WOOOO HOOOOO! The HI RES is outrageous! LOVE THE BOLTS!!!!

Thanks a million, my friend

Wow!! Beautifully done!! Good luck to you!

Terrific work

Beautiful masterpiece of yours again. I appreciate the time it took for you to create this image. It is not a copy and paste thing, you left part of your brains scrambled on your layers, especial effects and colors. This is how to create art. Thanks for giving me inspiration.... Good job!!!

Beautiful! Well done.

A lovely take on the steampunk theme!

Brilliant! well done...

Congrats baby doll, great job

Congratulations my friend...

Congrats!

Congrats Cornelia!!

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

congrats

Beautiful work, Cornelia.

Congrats !!!

it is so dark i cant see it

how about now ?

Not bad GL!

Yippee Yahoo!

Really interesting textures you created! Beautiful colors, too.

Congrats my friend!
nice and pretty image...

Congrats, Cornelia! Lovely as always.

Congrats again Cornelia

I love the whole Mechanical animal of the piece.. you might want to disrupt the super symmetry of the image to give it a bit more realism.. but that is just IMHO.. great job overall

Cheers, i was not aiming for realism in this one. Liked how it was looking like a fantasy illustration.

You could just do a simply lighting filter from the left or right.. that would do the trick.. it's a very nice piece all around.. good luck

I'm not a fan of super symmetry either: would a bug really have its antennae and legs perfectly mirror their opposite sides? I also think the background is too blurred because any clue as to what it is has been eliminated. Coupling those corrections with a Rule of Thirds composition could be more dramatic.

I like the idea. The bug certainly looks menacing. Think a texture background and a frame with shadows will make it look like a specimen on display. That will end the symmetry issue. GL

This is a fantasy bug, reality has no play. Symmetry smimtry. Who is to say that in this world or others symmetry is perfect, or near or not... LOL. And the background has no relation into what it has been, i just liked the idea of using the original source as a background...

cheers for your comments

I actually like how this one is done. It almost has that "comic book" look to it. I like how you achieved that. Did you add some of your own coloring in the last step or so? (probably between steps 14 and 15?)
GL author!

SilverSurfer..No i used the posterise filter, yeah wanted the comic look to it, cheers for your comment.

One tough scary looking bug, well done.

Very nice work, agree with SilverSurfer, my thoughts exactly, love the posterized effect for this. Can definitely see it as a menacing cartoon character!