I liked it better if the image was turned in a diff direction so there would be more shadows fallen on the butterfly..

Thanks for that comment, I guess I don't know what you mean by turning the image in a different direction because I don't know how that would cause the shadow to fall on the butterfly ... unless the wing were raised up high enough to cast a shadow on the other side, which I don't want to do because then the raised wing would look quite small because of foreshortening.

I mean more shadows from the pencils on top of the drawn wing sorry I was not clear right now it only gets shadow on it from the one pencil and only very small part which is hard to see.

good eye! thanx for the suggestion...

Nice work! Love the bright colors.

yes! thats what I meant looking better now

This is a fairly nice looking piece of ...filter work. Your blending between the "sketched" part and the live butterfly is commendable. There are however some inconsistencies in the shadows. Look at the shadows cast from the binder's rings versus the shadows of those pencils and the butterfly.

Nice blend and creative thinking. I like this kind of style in general!

Thanks for the helpful comments and encouragement, I was so worried about the shadows in and around the butterfly and pencils and completely overlooked the others...

pixelkid -- this kind of stuff is what I like about photoshop too: something that can't be done purely photographically, nor can it be done with paints or pencils alone.

South park reference?
You could find whatever texture and apply it on the monster to level the density of the image.
Overall it's a nice job.

BP is the real monster!! great comment on that situation, really did a number on our economy and I live on the EAST coast of Florida, and all the BP execs got all those bonuses for safety, what a croc!!

Great job!!!

We need oil, and to get it we drill or buy at some absurd rate set by other country"s we have plenty of oil here in the us but this administration bows to the activists who hate any type of intrusion on nature, unless it is another country drilling in our waters. So to make it look like they want oil they force company's to drill 3 miles off shore in water way to deep, STUPID !

Glockman, no, we do not need oil, a group of overly rich pieces of crap had a cute little meeting with Cheney in a private gathering to keep us dependent on oil ... end of story. 19 of the hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian.. think about it... or just continue to drink the Kool Aid LOLOLOLOL

(and this administration got Bin Laden, and didn't try to sleep with his relatives like the previous one)

Oh my.. update.. they just got the other guy too.. LOL.. wow..

Sorry drivenslush, you been ready to many liberal newspapers , we do need oil, you can't run a country like the USA on solar power and corn just won't cut it. Try to fly a airplane on solar power, and heat the homes with it , and those turbine's on those wind machines is nowhere big enough to supply us.
And as for this administration getting Bin Laden , -don't think so, he was taken by seal's who just happen to be under this administrations power. the real work came from Gitmo and interrogations, which by the way are STILL being carried out by --guess who .

BS

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 Burried at sea...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I hope OBAMA pays those Navy Seals the bounty that was on OSAMA's head


Nice sea monster BTW

It is my opinion that this country has more than enough oil on its own lands and off its own coasts to take care of ourselves. We just don't drill for the greenies' hysterical and radical protection of popping plovers and caribou. WTF-ever. It's easier to get the oil from overseas from countries with unstable governments who hate us. OK. Too much is manufactured with oil / petroleum. Free energy was created decades ago by Tesla, et al., but the technology is bought up as fast as it's invented and shelved by the monopolies. And BP was a foreign country drilling off our coast, and the disaster - don't forget the tons of corexit sprayed and dumped into the ocean to "clean up" - has yet to be fully calculated. Obama bungled that disaster, like he's bungled almost everything else but put us on the fast track to marxism. He's the latest on a long line of globalist presidents; Bush was no better (hello, can you say PATRIOT ACT?). I don't know the answers, but I sure see the problems. Thanks for your comments, all.

Nice take on a disastrous scene. Good to see you here again, author!

Thank you, pixelkid

Yes it is good to see you back. Nice chop Author

Thank you cabldawg

very realistic! well done! good luck!

All the pictures are my own and I listed them under the SBS

His pectoral chest muscles are a bit odd. The breast on the RH side is somewhat larger and misshapen when compared to the one on the LH side.

The anatomy of his arms is perfect, that's why I don't get how come his chest muscles are asymmetrical, his right pectoral being smaller than his left.
It's almost like the torso was semi profile, like this picture of me :http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/0066/0f6f596f-f177-487d-ac53-d2c8b5f5e1c4.jpg and you tried to warp it for a front.

The light on him comes from the front while the sun in setting in the back, etc, etc..
Dude, there are too many mistakes to point them out here, without discouraging you ( i will if you insist) - so i suggest you try something simpler first:
for example, making a man with that statue's head, by using stock and blending. If you succeed you add a simple background first, then some additional element and so on.

thank you ..I have no problem with your critique, it is the way I can learn. I will get better.