Give him a shadow, too.

Lookin' good!

SBS is necessary when only the given source is used. Try to adjust the shadow...it shouldn't have an outline.

Love everything except the black guy with the hoe...he'd be falling off!

Good fish, but big body in shallow water?

Not bad, but why the same color as the background?

Great job! The reflection in Step 16 is better than the final version...the edges conform better to the ripple contours...other than that, it's lovely.

Nice job...good luck!

Looks good...try to remove the white line around the cane. The ship looks like it's on land.
Edit: Looks better now...GL.

Nice work...good and creepy! I might have kept the meat as red as in the source, but's it's a great image.

Light rays are kinda funky, and I think the one at left should be behind the sub...but that's just a nitpick. Everything else is great!

Fantastic work and great use of the source.

Good one!

Congrats, great pic!

Yep, wrap the type & give the can a bottom.

Nice job adding the piercings to the baby, but the hair needs serious work.

Part of the singer's background is visible in the sky behind her, sky is too low res.

Some info on SBS: http://www.pxleyes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1903

Much better.

Only three legs?

The fish things are kinda cool, but the angle of the water surface is wrong. What's the source or SBS step for the underwater part?

Shadow should be longer & more blurred. (Look at shadow of the shell). Try to clean up some of the cloning, too.

Ahem...if you ripped some chicken skin or something, would it come to points like that? Noooooo....

Good idea, but it's pretty dark. SBS would help, too.

Author, please read this to find usable sources: http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/
You can't use wallpapers. Try this: http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=4938093

He looks better with a background, but you need to post the source link. Good luck!

Badly pixelated around the edges of the tree.

Interesting, but a lot of bad edges.

Use the line tool to make taut shroud lines.

Arm should blend into body. Right now it looks pasted on.

Nice work! I only see one eye in the reference pic, though.

Too funny!

The shadow of the tail on the back wall wouldn't be there, according to the other shadows you've made. Still a good pic, though.

Looks very menacing, but I don't think there would be shadows in the foggy pic you've made.

Table is skewed, and everything should have a shadow, not just the cat.

Great pic, and the expression really makes it!

Sweeeeeet!

Scale problem.

Author, I'm not comfortable with giving you the answer to your problems, but would like to point you in the right direction. Get rid of the smudge tool edges. Experiment with better solutions. I know you can do it.

Just a flip? Come on, you can do better than that.

S.O.S.

This is a joke, right?

Are those gravity defying blood drops on her sword? They should be dripping down.

Blur the edges of the figure to smooth them...otherwise a good image.

Great! No need to take it down, just go to My stuff/My contest entries/Edit image. (Don't forget to save a high res image).

Nope. Just helping out. What do you do? Read the section on how to find usable sources and go lookin' for 'em. There are lots out there...good luck!

Sources are not usable. Source 1 is copyrighted, the rest are not Creative Commons licensed. Please read http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/

Nice use of the source.

There should be a green cast on the phone...look at how the red in the glass colors the phone in the source pic.

There's no obvious light source, so the shadow is probably not necessary.