Excellent...IMHO just a hint of color would make this better, but it's still a great job!

Thank you for your hint. Actually I tried the color version before deciding to convert it into BW. This one is more impressive in the aspect of showing the depth of thinking.

Fantastic image.. super creative! High marks

Great work!

This is extremely clever...very well done!

Fantastic idea

I agree, this has far more impact as a b/w than it would in or with color.

Cool effect

Thank you guys. I was worrying that this work doesn't show the true droste effect by its definition because we can't see the infinity here but my idea is we can imagine that by other angle, it's absolutely infinite. Now I feel much more confident ^^

It's true that you can't SEE the inifinity, but it still is. In inifinity, you can never see the end, even though you still know that it's there.

You can't see the end of the infinity but that's because you covered it up. Clever idea. GL!

Congratulations on the top-three place!

Congrats!

grats

Thank you, my friends !!!

Gratz! Very awesome picture and I'm glad this got to the top 3.

One of my favourite artists on the site.... congratulations.

Oh wow, this is so tripy, and I love the black and white tones here. He looks like a very thoughtful man = )

Try to upload a high resolution version

yes the source image itself was in poor quality!

awesome but just improve the quality!

nice...

Sometimes it's difficult to find a good source with the concept we want... And many times when we get "that" one, the quality is NG!

Not bad thinking...very imaginative title as well...! Small remarks though: maybe you could have gone a bit further and make the branches look like actually emerging out of the head! And also...try removing the one on the right side, it sort of distracts and lack sense! Oh...and maybe play a bit more with the pink smoke brushes, make them better defined, cause at this point they almost look like just spots of color! Best of luck!

You can't link to your own albums on pxl, upload your source in one of your steps and comment that it's your own image, if it is...

amazing stuff

Stunning piece -- very very well done --- great expression

AMAZING

This is amazing...

Thx, it was a handfull

Fantastic!

awesome! need i say more...

I am in awe of some of the entries in this contest, and this is one of them............such skill you have.

This is just an awsome entry author. the face hair and detail you have created in the hands have taken your entry to another whole other level. In the tops for sure.

Master piece!

Wow,, great detail especially around the hand.. i would;ve suggested trying to add a few more wrinkles around his face as well so that there isn;t such a contrast between the two.

great!

congrats. 5th is a great placement in such a hard comp

Thx for nice comments

congrats author.....

Nice job! Would be better if you took out the horizontal line in the background...

Thank you for the advice! I agree that it looks better with a clean background.

plz have a look at this tutorial o.o; your monkey looks like he got hit by the grassmower o.o;

http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1253/How-To-Make-Puss-in-Boots.html

He kinda reminds me of someone I know.

hehehehehehe, funny

this is so cool

Good luck!

he has a nipple popping out of his shirt

Hehe, it just sneaked in!