The positioning of the spider is perfect. I'd hide under the bed too.

I see a face.

https://i.imgur.com/Eh5qrQN.jpg

TY author.

good story.

50"? I hope it's at least 4K man.

Nice idea. A cool scene. I like those vapor trail brushes. I just downloaded them

I want that phone! Would be nice to have a girl pop out of mine.

My only suggestion is maybe make the source girl more monotone and sepia like the old wedding photos.

How did you make the streaks?

A triclops.

Love it.

Yes you are brilliant skyangel. I'm a fan.

It's not a horrible idea. skyangel is spot on.

Looks kinda like a lizard lady.

FYI, pretty sure that brown curvy thing is in the upper left of the soup that's kind of sausage shaped, is tofu covered "kamaboko". It's a Japanese fish cake.

The fish cake looks like this http://pad1.whstatic.com/images/b/ba/Kamaboko_8.JPG.

When covered in tofu they look like this https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cb/f5/2f/cbf52f026e9584467f2d6048f4506aea--japanese-food-maki.jpg.

When fried, they look like this https://www.japantravel-centre.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/oden.jpg.

Congrats skyangel. Nice chop.

This was my favorite. Congrats rturnbow!

GJ lolu. There was some tough competition this contest.

I liked this one.

Beautiful work. Suitable for framing.

I feel like feeding it a carrot.

So, in the end of the story, does the eagle catch the tick or is there an alternative ending?

Kingfishers built the Great Pyramids and Stonehenge. Common knowledge skyangel.

Haha! I should have figured that out. I was in south Florida when it hit. Real strong winds (120MPH) and lots of trees blown down and stuff.

That's the one with David Bowie doing some of the music?

An eagle hunting a tick in someone's eye. You have a creatively twisted mind, and I mean that in a good way. Can't wait to find out who you are.

Which one?

I gotta know. Who is Irma?

Fish eye soup...

EXCELLENT chop. REally love it. Just bend her fingers down so they look like they are touching the bed.. and maybe give her some warmer tones?

I noticed the tapered edges of your hair smudges and it looked liek a tablet. I use a mouse. I have a tablet but have never used it.

The way you probably saw that chop is that you took a lot of time to cut out her hair, fix her skin imperfections, make the background etc. And that's pretty much how I saw it. But I imagine that some won't take the time to analyze a chop in that manner before voting. I tend to over-analyze ever chop and every detail haha.

I noticed the smoothing of the facial and neck skin and cloning where her hair is really really short (I always look at sources). I also saw the time you took to smooth out the edges of her hair (via smudge I believe) which was the best part of the chop and counted for most of my score. However the source wasn't incorporated well Z, so that took off points. Not disrespecting your chop, just trying to give honest critique.

I can tell you that I did not give you anything near what your final score was (I voted higher). But yea, the low marks were probably due to the source being so tiny. Either that, or troll voting.

Do you use a graphics tablet?

Congrats Z.

Congrats Zizounai. Deserved to be rated much higher IMO.

Congrats Denlig.

Everything seems to be rated low in this contest.

Berry nice. Someone agrees with me.
Can you imagine having a berry that big? Just one of those round "dimple" parts (or w/e they are called. there had to be a word for them) would be enough.

sweet

I get them like this. Go to your messages. Open one up and hit reply. All the emoticons will be there.

Good story author. Seems legit.

Isn't there a saying about threading a camel through the eye of a needle?

Nice idea man. Your berries on the left side look cut off. IMO this is more favorable. Flip the berries horizontally so they don't look cut off. Note the two red arrows where the mask is different from yours.

https://i.imgur.com/5TFbbmO.jpg

looks so much better in full size.

You're fast!! I bet you could do this. You gotta be fast to catch a chicken.

good use of blend modes. looks pretty real.

Slimey. Yucky. Can you make a snail trail?

I added my settings for you in the Imgur album. Yea it's more warm for sure. At first I tried a warming color filter but it was inadequate. Up to you which one you like.

https://imgur.com/a/fBQpN

Haha. Yup, BWR = BigWaveRider . Gonna be changing my name soon. Mods said they can't give me a name change, so I have to make a whole new account.

Hi author. I did a few things that I thought would improve it. You did a really good job of color matching the boy, the girl and the cat into the background, but IMO the overall color cast of the image made it look flat. So I did some quick and dirty color/light work on it, and now I believe the chop "pops" a bit more. Let me know what you think.

Made two more images that are sort of a mini SBS. I used Nik filters and Color Balance. Am I allowed to tell you the settings? I have no problems giving you the settings, but is it against the rules?


https://imgur.com/a/fBQpN

Wonderful. i like the rebuild of the bike chain and the little numbers. the way you put that clock stuff in the eye is sweet. BWR approved.

Congrats SA.

First and second. Not bad.