Very nice! This is from a tutorial, is it not? Looks quite familiar.

No, this is not from a tutorial. It is made up of random images and the given contest source.

Excellent job, there is a steampunk portrait tute out there, but the result here is very very different and certainly stands in its own right.

very cute... I'm waiting for Abby to show up from NCIS

I absolutely love this! High steampunk vote. A couple things, tho, it doesn't quite look like she's sitting in or on the brass thing, if you could somehow cut out the front and set her back into it a bit. Also, some kind of background, even if it's blurred might look more 'real'. Great job incorporating the other elements with this. If anyone knows where that steampunk tutorial is, please pm me. The overall look of this is very steamy!

Great! (Just one little nitpick: I would have left the reflections in the goggles). Cool pic, though.

Interesting idea!

Ok I ove this, but what is she sitting on? GL

Oh alright. It was just because the tank/goggles/hat combo seemed to come from this tut: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/how-to-create-a-steampunk-style-illustration-in-photoshop/

At a second more detailed glance, you did a really really awesome job with this. Good luck, author.

great choice of images with very nice blending over all a great looking work
One slight thing maybe some sort of a texture on the umbrella maybe something like the brass or copper tank -- seem a bit to smooth as it is IMHO

Great imagination!! Excellent blend of sources.

Great job and Great blending.

Thanks for the comments everyone. She is sitting on a seat which is shown in the SBS. Reflection in goggles was removed because it was of a kitchen and I wanted to be able to see her sexy eyes. Background was left off because I wanted everyone to concentrate on the subject, a background could be too distracting. I like your suggestion Alan about the texture, I'll see what I can do.

Very nice total image!

Put a metal texture over the umbrella as suggested by Alan 2641. Thanks for the suggestion as I think it has improved the image greatly.

It has improved it.

No more improvement is needed, you've got an excellent entry

Great improvement. . Top 3 entry.

Very goth........Nice job and well executed. GL

wow , great work and very nice detailed tutorial, gl

I really like this one! It's funky, most creative and well chopped.

I think the shadows under the goggles are a bit dark ( but it's IMO...) Great work!

EEE!! Fun! Now, that is a great blend of sources!

what to say..... great talent.... :Rock: wish to see this one in the top..... hearty good luck......

Amazing, Crazy skills

Amazing, Crazy skills

ohhhh, great.

really an impressing output... image catches the eyes immediately auhtor... goodluck...

just great

Awesome

looks amazing! great job author.. gl

well done, its a winner for me!

great work

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Super work.

Mesmerizing!

Congrats for your first place, Solkee!

Congratulations for 1st

Congratulations for 1st, superb blending

congrats

Congrats Solkee, wonderful work

Congratulations Solkee.

Congrats! for 1st place, awesome entry

Congratulations! superb!

Congrats!! great idea well done!

Congratulations!!!

Thanks everyone.

Use Edit/Transform/Distort to get the goggles to fit better, and try to color match the lenses. Also think about making a strap to hold them on...

sooo weird :P i like it

Thanks for the feedback CMYK46 and Jellopudding. I will see what I can do. I'm not sure if I still have the PSD saved. An accident.

awesome

Thank you youri2323

Nice....but work on the goggles...

Nice...

cooooooooooool!

nice!

nice work

Oh how great would it be, to drive with one of these! I love all the bull's-eyes! (I hope, that is the right translation) And the railing! Aaaah... I'm in love

Edit: Oh, it's you!

Hi Lelaina! Those are called portholes. Thanks for your comment!

Aaah thanks! Always good to learn something new And you're welcome of course

wow really awesome!

Good job!!

i have no idea how you guys make these things so well....grrr im getting nowhere with mine lol... well done author, looks good

Cute and maybe a bit cartoony--but I'm not sure that's quite the steampunk style. I think lighting is the problem. Light from above (not the side) would be more realistic and then adjust the shadows on the subs accordingly. (BTW the shadows on the subs don't even match the apparent light direction here.) [Some fish brushes to add fish in the background might increase the feeling of depth.]

Really good idea, and I'm a huge steampunk fan, and this is "ok" theme wise, but steam punk has nothing to do with cartoon anything... Your big sub has some major issues w/ perspective, and the whole thing is lit wrong from your light source.

I've always thought of the whole steampunk genre as cartoony...it's a parody crossbreed of Victoriana and Sci-fi. How can the big sub have perspective issues when it's a duplicate of the real thing? Did you look at the SBS?
PS: Lighting upgraded.

I don't see *much* difference in lighting, the tank under the lil sub should have much more shadow, the light source and the tanks/sub above would be blocking most of the light on that part, so should the back side of the big sub, and Yeah I saw your source.

awesome work author!! i know the sub in the background! it's in barcelona next to an aqua museum.. i think..

Great picture but not quite on theme..Really get into the mechanics of things...Show the steam power

"Steampunk" doesn't mean literally steam powered. It's a genre concept!

I understand the concept of steampunk..Here's an idea show me the mechanics of the subs and not just them floating around...Just my opinion

i think it's very on theme. as well as your other entry.

very nice done!

purely awesome

great job author!

Fantastic.. this is very, very good. I'd like to see a steam-punk background of some sort.. but don;t change it unless you want to.. because this is INCREDIBLE!

i love the shadow and the reflection, caught my eye straight away... I am trying sooo hard to make something for this contest inbetween painting the kids room lol

Thnx all for the comment... @ponti55 I did thought of adding a different background, but then I would have to change the shading of the spider and ground reflection... Well this particular background shows the light source and is kinda cool... So will stick to it... Will implement a more steampunk background if I make an another steampunk art... My head is bursting with ideas lol...

Edit: Thanks cmyk64, well I did thought of going brass at one time... But decided to go a bit modern style... Will keep that in mind though in making further steampunk stuff...

Edit: @DanLundberg thnx for ur comment... Well I did admit it was a bit modern, I didn't say it was not steampunk... Also now a days the concept of steampunk is very much diluted... About the material okay I didn't used brass or iron, and about the background hmmmm just cause I didn't give a steampunkish background doesn't mean the subject becomes "non-steampunkish"... But oh well different poeple think differently...

Edit: @Ponti Thanks... It's okay to leave 3 comment in one entry... P.S. The reflection is still there, but barely...

Edit: @Christy He he he it's small coz I wanted to strain the viewers eyes... Just kidding... Well I wanted to make it big, but then I have show nicely on how the boiler gets connected to a burner/fuel tank which is connected to a engine whose piston are inter connected with cylinders which is linkable to a flywheel and stuffs like condenser, valve, gauges etc... Which I am not really familiar on( btw which I am working on)... So I apologize for it... Will try to make an even better working mechanism next time...

Haha, okay! It was just a suggestion, but it's just a hassle to change it, so leave it the way it is.. again - good luck!!

just a wonderful mechanism.. just super!!!

very good

Great image, nicely done.

Very cool image great work on this!

Excellent work! Just one suggestion: steampunk stuff is usually made of brass (sometimes iron). This would look extra cool if it was brass.

Cool, but as you admit, this is modern and not particularly steampunk because of material and background (as others have pointed out).

brass looks great too! well done!

a huge steampunk fan, I love the construction of this, great sbs!

i realy like the reflection overlaping the shadow... realistic... good luck...

Author, the change you made looks nice, and definatley on theme - much more so than your previous one, but in my opinion, the futuristic or modern one looked a lot better. the reflections you made on the body itself looked great. I'm not saying you should change this back, because i do think this is more on theme, i just wanted to let you know, in case you were having second thoughts, that you're previous entry was absolutely magnificent. Good luck, once again (sorry to have left three comments on one entry.)

Make the spider HUGE! Show me how he works

GREAT work!! I love it

i love love love this very well done high marks from me

the high res is excellent...very well done

Congrats for your second place!

congrats

congrats on 2nd nice work

Congrats!!

congrats!

Thanks all...

congrats!!

Congrats!!

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats!

Very nice entry.. looks fantastically steam punk!

very nice! gl

Love this one.. I WANNA RIDE!!!!!

just...AWESOME !!!

Fantastic pic.

Very good, you might want to correct the sail on the left in the middle: it's got some green shining through.

Not very steampunk to me...

i do like this but at the same time i also get a salvador dali feel still it is good work author.

Like the mood. Don't get the three-blade-propeller-whirl thing. More fundamentally, 'steampunk' would suggest moving beyond the old-fashioned technology of sailing ships into the brave new world of mechanical steam-powered ships. And that's an awfully big dolphin in that bag. I would call it a whale.

Very nice, i love the mood on this one.