This is my "I am back!" -entry for the PXLeyes. I was away for a LONG time, and now I felt like refreshing my "art"-hobby.

This one took mostly a lot of work by hand and standard brushes, to add texture for the "ball" made from the sunshade, and blending in the extra garment for the monk boy's cloth. Also hours of work with the shadows, as most had to be add by hand, trying to walk the thin line between realistic and "looks better this way!" I tried to blend the invisible barrier of depth with imaginary design.

It's good to be back, warmest greetings to everyone who still remembers me (after voting, that is :s ) (5 years and 1063 days ago)

First contest entry on this site :) (5 years and 2235 days ago)

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Thanks to George55 for the Jar (pxleyes stock) and Auroradreams for the boy. The background image is my own (see SBS for permission etc.) (5 years and 3104 days ago)

15 Comments

Childhood, Magic, river, firefly, jar

nilknarfsoive says:

I find this piece very magical... I don't know why but it soothes my eyes... GL

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Glockman says:

Very well done ,lovely work.

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friiskiwi says:

Fantastic work, it's so beautiful. well done.

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Chalty669 says:

Really like the mood of this one! I would still like to see even brighter edges on the knee, hands and front of face. Up to you, Good luck!

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George55 says:

Beautiful transformation, and good job!

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author says:

@ George55 Thanks for the use of the stock!

@ Chalty699 Thanks for the help!
After seeing my first upload I edited it and re-submitted a de-saturated/darkened version but I think you are right and have re-re-edited it and put some of the highlights back in as you suggested!

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bcabilan says:

Lovely and this one for the top!

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hereisanoop says:

Wonderful and beautiful lighting..... You have the unique style and quality in your works.. welldone, good luck to you

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Majkman says:

I wondered what happened to Tinker Bell... very nice work

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erathion says:

fantastic piece author...well done

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ramesan says:

Beautiful work author...best of luck!!

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adelia says:

wonderful

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bcabilan says:

Congrats on 2nd place!

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spaceranger says:

Congrats!!

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lordymail says:

congrats

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I first color corrected the photo a little bit, and removed the blue and red fringe around the guy, then i created the table, with some fibers, and textures. Then i created the big thing: the eyes. They took small amount of time to create them actually. Last, i added shadows and few things. (5 years and 3110 days ago)

2 Comments

Donuts, donut, table, eyes, trees

Toothpick134 says:

very funny author

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erathion says:

hahahahhahahaha...cool...GL author

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In this composite i used some images and some filters to achieve this soil and dust that appears under the highway. I used some fibers, clouds, noise etc. to get that kinda cement effect.The sun burst effect was created by an angle gradient. Then i added the car, and some ligtning and shadows. (5 years and 3122 days ago)

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car, highway, warp, light, shadows

happyme27 says:

if you were to take the end of the black section on the right, and make the line moving diagonally left, it would look more like a hole, rather than now it looks a little flat

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cristianlaceanu says:

very good idea

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pixelkid says:

I'm a big fan of this kind of work! Nice idea and execution, author!

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