Congrats

Congrats!!

congrats on the 2nd place

nice but little blurry for me.

i just want to say what is wrong in my opinion

face is green, white edges of costume, flat.

desert storm with two flat and happy soldiers, there was war...

in one side helm is darker but face in both sides are with same light, and nose are lighter where it's need to be darker.

I strongly salute the soldier as any other that fights for their country and the right thing. The critique stated here has nothing against the soldier but rather the put together of this image. They are only trying to help you improve areas that might not have had as much attn to details as it should. Again there is nothing against the brave soldier, just some areas that need improvement on the "total image". Don't get so defensive. Try to embrace free help from great talent. I like the idea of what you have done and composition with the pledge but please consider their ideas.

It's hypnotic.

Yum yum, grits 'n' gravy now your talkin' damn I'm hungry now.

mmmmmmmm... reminds me of growing up. Luckily, my wife makes great biscuits and gravy

IM seeing some good improvements here author.. keep it up !

This is good dude, the color really pops and it was drawn well. maybe go easy on the eyelashes next time though, hehe.

You should try to color correct the soldier's skin tones - they are too warm and yellow for the rest of the image.

Additionally, the lower part of the uniform is noticeably lighter than the rest of him. Making a selection of his uniform, and going to Image>Adjustments>Selective Color>Whites, and increasing the Black slider should help that.

Gordon Ramsay would complain about the spilled red-eye gravy, but other than that, this is utterly yummy looking - even though I can hear my arteries hardening just by looking at it...

The flash reflection at the bottom center is the only thing hurting this otherwise well done photograph.

The edges of the figure are a lot better. The area inside the arm against the flag still has white edges, and there are still a lot of white artifacts all over in hi-res.

Try to remove the white artifacts (Filter/noise/dust & scratches and/or Clone tool). Rather than selecting with the magic wand tool, use the pen tool or lasso tool to get clean edges. Also, you need to post the uncut original photo in a step-by-step guide.
I'm guessing the first commenter is referring to the cut off elbow, which could be fixed by cropping the image at right & eliminating the dead space.

Soldier image is not proper selected, white border are visible and hand is not proper cropped.

Better without the text, but still too yellow, especially when compared with the other entries in this contest - It just looks unnatural and poorly lit.

Beautiful

try cropping

lovely, so much more powerful now,

the theme says Hands only

LOL! Good point...

Author...is this in the right contest? This should be in a drawing contest not photography.

The skin tones are too yellow and jaundiced, possibly due to tungsten (incandescent) lighting. A cooling filter or color adjustment would make them more natural looking.

The color tones are a bit too cool, giving the image almost a purple tone. A warming filter or color adjustment to warm it up just a bit would help immensely.

Author, please remove the text from the entry. It is against guidelines.

Please read.... http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/photography/

A bit too dark, the ducks seem to blend into each other on the left hand side.

Cute fellows! They definitely know what they're doing.

I liek the drawing n i keep going back to it cus it had something.. that i couldnt describe.. and now i see it.. i s the eyes.. they are kinda femalish hehe which makes the dwarf even cuter

Great drawing author...gl

Pencil/Tool strokes are AWESOME!! now spray it with hairspray and encase in plastic.. LOL... good luck

Nicely done

Impressive detail quality. Very well done author.