very interesting. I would love this just on a plain black background, to me the choice of background has no use will hold vote for moment

Are these supposed to be eminating from her? If so there are a few strays.. Bottom right, another next to her shoulder on the left, another in line with her eyes on the right.. Also if its mother and child, would the child have similar styled hair?

title is the MOTHER'S FORTRESS... not the child's fortress.. her hair is her defense against all that would approach her child and she will defend it with all her being.. and the fragmentation of the hair makes me happy

Hey, where's the child's hairs....

LKY, LOL Smart A$$

nice maybe blur the background a little

good work

nice

Interesting image. Here and there you added some shades ,which works well. But I kinda miss them behind the statue itself (and then I mean a shadow from the white statue on the coloured strings), it might get the whole image closer together. Good luck!

nice work

ohhh i like that much better, i love the colours you have created on this image well done, got my vote and goodluck author.

Interesting idea it like a sea anemine.GL

Great image! I like the hairs and the background as well, simple and beautiful!

Awww poor baby!! Well Done...Best of Luck

very nice

Haha - very funny - no humour bar? I always wondered how muppets came to be!!

muppets are most likely the result of contact foam, super-glue, a 40-year-old, and whatever channel aired sesame street. lol! thanks for the comments

It's really well done author.. just to consider.. not necessary. .but making it another color would really make it stand out.. but dont' do it if you don't want to.. good Luck

Thats probably the foot of the cookiemonster! Love it!!! Well done

Nice use of the clone tool.

Convincing, but it would be a bit hard to know what this is if one weren't aware of the source. Why not make the foot red and call it Baby Elmo?

cool

CookieMonster, thats YOUR baby!

lol, cookie monster, i saw that comment coming a mile away, thanks! lol =) (actually no clone tool used) [ and as for goldenAura, i think i'll take your advice, it is very difficult to recognize... O.o ] edit: after about 3 days, i realized that aura wasn't the one who made that comment

Love it. Great Idea.

Great use of source... I'm only not to sure about the redish "shadow" at the bottom. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it supposed to be there? Great idea! Very cute... Good luck

I was kind of going for inderect light, but wow, you're right, a little too intense

good work, but red color spresding on blue also (if it is reflection reduce it)

Cute heeh honestly I thought it was going to be a teddy bear foot, also there's a red glow around the foot on the blanet other than that good luck

gl

Good idea...

You should have added the humor button.

lol thanks

Haha! Well done author, funny entry

Shows imagination

I like this, but was sure I had seen it somewhere before http://alltelleringet.deviantart.com/art/Go-your-own-road-111657665

Orignal idea nicely done

Well Done!! Best of Luck

@BarkersEgg: Good link, go your own road!!!

Author, your pic may or may not be different enough from the link BarkersEgg supplied. In my opinion it's not. That said, the underside of the road surface he's lifting would be a LOT darker. Think about being more original next time.

@BarkersEgg, thanks for sharing that link, that image is amazing. To author of this image, well done mate... goodluck.

Great! I like it very much! Great job!

@ barkersegg: I've seen the image you've linked featured in a magazine this month (photoshop creative mag, i think). That said I think it's a decent effort author. Although I agree with cmyk that the underside of the road should be alot darker.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having an outside inspiration. The real issue is how well that inspiration was implemented here. I don't understand why the background has become blurry or why the lifted-up pavement seems fairly transparent. Also, the perspective of the grass the guy is standing on doesn't match the perspective of the background.

good work

The blend can improve, anyway good work and good luck.

The idea is good execution needs a little work

I don't think grass would grow under pavement! But I like the idea.

i wonder what he's looking for lol, gl nice work

NICE blending

yikes.. I missed this the first time round.. I think you've bent the idea enough .. I like the finished image... the point is well received.. good luck

you did very well

argh voting again... I like your concept, and simple is sweet... however this is very simple lol. Its a good picture and nice work, it could maybe have been cleaned up a little more but I like it

well , why complicated when there is a simple solution ?

Nice job on this! If you put this on a table or a background surface, it might enhance a bit more.

great clean up job !!

very good, clean work

lol, I forgot what I voted last time )) think about the same

nice job

Very nice, good work on making it fit in so wll, really looks like it is their

An oldie but a goodie -- still like this

hehehehe.. very good one.. dats one big sea horsey LOL

and definitely on theme

Lovely job Author.......G/L.

Thats nice. really does look as if it was a fossil.

Very cool entry! Well done and good luck!

Agree with alan2641 oldie but a goodie!!

Another great entry from dead PST. Well done author

great

Wow!

I wish I could see him alive, sure he was amazing creature! Good luck and good work!

This looks amazingly real! I just wish you would have explained how you did it in your SBS GL

good work

looks great

Interesting sea horse fossil... I always had the feeling they were living fossils anyway! LOL

very nice work looks almost real

nice.

thats old school

Really, truly cool.

Congrats, nice work

Congratulations for 1st

congrats

Congrats for 1st