Yep, and you should have shown that in your SBS. Still, nice work,

Explosion wouldn't be symmetrical or so opaque, otherwise not bad.

Post your source links.

I would have removed the faces. Other than that, it's great work!

Canvas is still too filter heavy. (Rembrandt would never have made such heavy texture.).

Good idea, but why is the type in background reversed?

Cracks are very well made, but there are shadows and no highlights.

LOL...if it's supposed to be Hefner, I wanna see BOOBS!

Needs a high res version. This guy is way overused, but I guess that's not your fault.

The way to save this is to lift the "old skin" texture from the source hand and overlay it on your second hand. It can be done with patience.

I can see you wanting a scratchy texture on the creature, but not on the background. Like the creature, though...very enigmatic.

Pretty hard to see detail with all that texture, but nice mood & color. SBS would be good, especially because heavy textures can hide a lot of flaws...

Love this guy! Tiny nitpick: blur the edge of the green light beam at right to match the others. Good luck!

Very nicely done! The filter should only be applied to the canvas, not the frame, and IMO should be toned down just a bit, but still excellent work.

If the bird was crapping on his head this would be great.

Dan is correct. It seems as if there are two horizon lines. The rest of the blend is good.

Author, your use of the path is minimal. You could have used it to replace some of the siding on the house. That would have really rocked. (PS: It's not too late to do that).

Fix the shadow on the rolled up path. It wouldn't have a shadow on the right side.

Sub-par for you.

Author, that's a good explanation so far, but why is the statue base still there?

Great CBR, but if it's source only it needs a SBS. (And ditto the above comments).

Author, this is potentially a good idea. However, the light on the moon is from upper left and the light on the building is from upper right. Please consider light sources when making your entry.
PS: The spelling is "Buddha". Good luck.

Nice blend.

Might have been good to make the hood asymmetrical too, but this is excellent otherwise.

Reflection needs to be closer to log. The water looks very still, so it probably wouldn't have so much distortion.

Look over the high res again. There's a bad edge on the head scarf on his nose, and more of his beard showing at mid left, as well as a transparent edge where 2 parts of the scarf overlap.

Great idea, but in high res there are a lot of bad edges, and hair from his beard showing, like on his palm. Take some time to look this over & do some cleanup, and you'll have a great image.

Interesting idea.

Suggest making the source more visible, otherwise this could have been made without it.

Congrats, it's a great image!

Congrats!

LOL...chia buffalo?

Good blend of the 2 images...might be better to remove the statue base. I think he's meant to be snorting judging from the foggy area around the nose? Might want to rethink that...

Good title change. Addition of the light source makes sense with the shadow now.

Source only? Needs SBS.

@ Ramsesje, the hat is from source 1.

Looks like you've got a good formula going here.

LOL...love the eyes.

Good thinking!

Try to make the hand better...everything else looks pretty good.

Good idea. Hat is pretty low res & pixelated, and the top edge needs some cleanup.

He could use a bit of blur on some hard edges, like the top of his head, otherwise he's great!

Not bad, but you need to remove the sun glare from the wall.

She's floating above the branch.
EDIT: Shadow is better now.

Very, very cool! My only nitpick is the edges of the wall fragments don't come close to matching the edges of the hole, but this is still a killer image!

Yep, GMT is right...try using a metal texture for the tables.

Perspective is off, but good idea.

Why the blur?