remember me tangled movie...
god work author....

Fantastic! And she's losing her hair strends...

smalapatekut, that was my intention! to tangle stories.
erikuri, yes, she is losing her hair strends, that is why she has to guide the knights, otherwise she won't be able to make a ladder with her hair and escape the tower.

It seems that one hand is facing the wrong way around??... you could also try coning in some irregularities to the right side 'mold' area...
Your light seems painted on... I haven't looked at the sbs yet but changing the layer mode to screen should improve the effect if not already done so. While speaking of light... I don't understand where the yellow light cast is coming from re the windows... if it's meant to be coming from the falling lamp then maybe a large feathered elipse set to screen would be more appropriate to the scene?...

Also but not a major thing, I'd try to lose the noise from the bg!?!... as it's quite prominent!?!... But GL as it is interesting!

JamesD, for the hands I wanted the left one to be with the palm at the sky and the right one facing the lamp. I wanted the light to appear as if coming from her golden locks. The layer mode is set to normal but the brushes were set to colour dodge.
I will try to fix the noise and the irregularities, and see what I can do with the light.
Thanks for the suggestions!

Very cool!!!

Super cool work author...Fabulous idea and great execution...GL

Update: fixed the light and some irregularities. Couldn't end up with something good for the noise so I left it as it is. Oh, and I added some shade on her left arm to make clearer the way it points.

brilliant work here !

I knew it! haha. Well done, author.

Nothing will stop me from giving u high marks...

Congratulations!!! I hope she could have kept some hair strends so far!...

Well done Marina Congrats

Congrats!

Thank you all!

Congrats on your first place!!! very awesome!

I like your idea, I instantly thought of Rapunzles tower when I saw this but I lack the levels. Nice twist.

great idea author and very very nice blend

This is smart, but next time check the proportions, the ivy leaves have around the same size as the trees in the image, you can ifnd better stock of ivy on sxc.hu.
You also have some masking problems right in the center of the pic, that ivy square on the ladder. And blendding could be better, but you'll get it in time.

I just tell you that your image is nice... and that you created something with the source image. Good luck.

Interesting idea. Nice

Brilliant job.., very very well done.. good luck

very nice...gl

Thanks for your comments

great job....... gl

very nice work!

It reminds me of that Pixar (or Dreamworks, now I can't remember) movie where a house was haunted by a jealous woman spirit, and some kids got inside.

Congrats

Oh man...creepiness galore. Great work, author...

It's like a nightmare! Spooky...

wowow, crazy!

Very disturbing.....Great creation though for this challenge!! GL

ummmmmmm....ok

Um, yeah, what Tuck said...

NO! The legends are true! The Tower of Ugther has risen from the icy depths of the ocean to wreak havoc upon badly-photoshopped scribbled land! Curse you Ugther! CURSE YOU! But you are no match for my new weapon...tremble at the power of PHOTOSHOP CS5!!! I SHALL CHOKE YOU WITH MY PUPPET WARP! DELETE YOU WITH CONTENT-AWARE FILL!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

*ahem* *coughcough*

WOW, Please upload a SBS to share with us your techniques

Ah, and a hi res version too.

giggle

Great combining photoshop skill and drawing, hmmm, even typography is good, too

wasn't the exact same sun done recently in another contest? this is getting too old too fast