I like the central quality of this image. All the lines in the body armor, head armor, and arms point towards the face, which is a good way to draw attention and keep it. The blurring is very well done and adds to that effect. Still the side edges of the vest are kind of sharp compared to the blurry background, so just touch that up a bit.

very nice work indeedy!

LOVE this style of edit!!!!

Beautiful. Good job!

really good

Very nice work

Lovely entry... it's all so good o.o but maybe the face could be a lil more bight :P

OLD BUT GOLD....Its the best thing I found for this entry....GL

great work!

This is some sweet work Author. Add to my favs once again

so cool!....beautiful

Very nice work I love the image

Beautiful colours lovely piece of manipulation top job!!

fantastic pic, I remember this one.

great!!

and it was me who notified you . Beautiful and great work as usual

beautiful

hehehe.. EXCELLENT!!!

SO beautiful!

lovely...gl

looks great

Excellent piece of ART... nice Chop and the addition of the bird is clever.,

nice

great job GL

very nice

great! good luck

Very very nice...! Top score from me!

Congratulations on the top-three place

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats

Congrats for your second place, Loopy!

Congrats... great work!!

congrats!!

Congrats! for 2nd

congrats

Congrats!

maresei polu one of my favs

Nice result...but when using source in repetitive sequences...they tend to 'look repetitive' in the process. Perhaps shade some different densities or darken some and not others to give a more random look. Also, try softening edges on the inner neckline 'bulbs' along with the other elements. Nice effect. I really like the color and 'above eye' stuff. Very nice job!

Thanks pixelkid, already blurred a bit more the edges of the metals and played with the burn/dodge on them :P

intewesting

wow cool

che gnocca!! nice entry

Love the selective colours super image very nice work!

you've picked a beautiful stock photo the colors are excellent. i'd maaaybe go for a tad darker tones.

looks nice

man..all the pieces so far have been great.. this is going to be a tough contest (I love the fact that you kept the shoes true to the source... pretty cool.. and the power ball glow over the hand is a nice touch)

kinda simple still like it though

nice work

haha...i think this is the most angry kid

good

good work

very nice

Good Luck

I think would be better with a landscape for background.

definatly a good job.. great tech work.. right on theme

I agree that it should be on a landscape Good otherwise tho

Great work! The back end of cow suggests a brighter floor surface there too. Perhaps use some variation in lightness of surface.

there should be some lighting on the guy, great idea though

Creative

nice

Funny idea, but I also agree with DML. Apart from that, I see two different lightsources: the guy receives light from the right, shadow on ground is from light coming from front left. Good luck!

Thanks for all the comments. To clarify all your concerns - The warrior is at a photo shoot where they are using multiple light sources and thats also why there is no landscape background

good work. if you can match the body color to the cow's color, will be better.

nice job