so very CUTE!!!

Splendid work! Very creative and absolutely on theme.

Instant FAV!!!! lov it,and lov the bulb touch,
Awesomeness!!! GL author

Love the mood on this one but....
the cloud is to sharp on edges and look a little bit strange ,it didn't have depth compare to rest of image
Fix that and you will have a perfect image
Anyway one of my fav!

This is lovely and a fave. Making it night time was a great idea. Would you consider softening the mouth and eyes a little - maybe looking down too?

Very cute.

Very creative, great image!!

Clever! Nice image! Good luck author!

Wonderful job on this, love the lighting.

my fav

excellent job with the lighting

Congratulations

Congrats!!

Awww, very cool. Lovely, imaginative piece with well-placed details to compose the scene..

Congrat's !

Imaginative, but pretty lopsided as well.

There are some issues with perspective here, but I like the chop, and a good inage overall.

excellent construction

great one

I really love this idea and it could turn out great. But I agree with RayTedwell about the perspective, but that might just be an "easy" solve. Take the left "hip" light, although the leg is behind the right one, the light is bigger. You might want to change that and maybe you solved the biggest issue in perspective. I would also work on the right hand, now it seems attached to the body, try and soften the edge. You've put a lot of detail in the body, give the head some more detail, now it looks unfinished in comparison to the rest of the body. I hope you find the time to change these things, and let me know it my suggestions worked out, so I can learn as well I wish you the best of luck author, great job!

Nice idea and cool execution author! Floortje1973 gave some sound advice...but quite simply put...both feet are straight forward, but the Protector's right knee is facing away. This is what is making it look awkward to me. Great job using the source, though.

I like your changes author! It is so much better now, I see you did quit some changes, hand gone and just one light on the hips. Great job! @pixelkid has a point about the knee, but that does not bother me so much because the foot is twisted and not flat on the floor. There is a sense of movement in there. The head is better now, now it looks finished. I think it's fantastic you take comments and start working with the advice right away. Props for you author!

Agrees with people about the edit changes. It honestly just seems like it meeds some final details attended to. Some last minute smoothing and blending. Still a unique entry and I can still see the source without going to your SBS, so GL!

Nicely constructed.........G/L Author.

Amazing work author...Your work on a ground is perfect...whole construction is great but his legs are master piece...well done

Hey my friend, a second place is not bad at all. You mastered your entry. The effort you put into it, is reflected in the voting and the results of this contest. Congratulations Anoop!

Congrats for 2nd

Congratulatons, Anoop!

Congrats!!

congratulations...

congrats.

congrats Anoop

Congrats anoop! i thought it was a great use of source!

congrats on 2nd!!

congrats for introducing another character....

the characters look animated.

Very warm and cute!

very very nice work author...everything looks great but the woman is master piece...well done

Excellent work, author

the background...more lighting with gradient radial...and the characters..a ltb more dark....imho!?!?!?!...just a sugestion!

Good idea for this background, author. What a nice family portrait!

How peculiar. I wasn't able to thumbs up the comments on my entry, so I went to the profiles of those I missed and gave a thumbs up to you on comments you made on others' entries.
Thank you for your comments!

Very nice work, beautiful concept

Great idea on creating a centaur family

Thank you for your votes and comments

very pretty author.. (do have to say that the color scheme is a hard one.. hehehe.. you did a great job

wow..........another master of liquify .......wonderful....

Im not shure if the color is right. I have a new Monitor which issnt really calibrated. :-/

its a wonder,without using any additional sources to edit pic.,can say its a pure creation

It's not your monitor Author.. the source pic really looks like baby vomit.. hehehehe

Very well done - it needs too much patience to make a work like this; have a glass of passion fruit juice and everything calms down!

Nice

Lovely amber coloured beastie

great one

beautiful entry and nice details.......... wish u high marks..............

wishing you the best.... good work....

Congrats! for 3rd place

Congratulations!!!!!!

Congrats ..........

Congrats Solaris....

Congrats!!

Good job! Congratulations!

Love what you do!

Not bad, but a bit too reliant on DA images...

The only suggestion I would make is maybe make his arms more like the texture of the birdface.

I really like the idea, but i kind of agree with CMYK only in that you could find very similar sources in something like SXC, and it would've been a lot easier for you, author. Anyways, good luck, i really like it!

i too wonder what it would look like if the arms were feathered.like the sky and background images.