her henna

using only the brushes and image given

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Beauty Sleeps

credit to two-ladies-stocks from DA for the Ivy. credit to LMorris2 from SXC for the window.

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chhadant jatak

this is a Buddha folklore. According to d story Buddha was a white elephant with six tusks in one of his past lives. He had 2 wives. One of them comitted suicide bcoz of jealousy wid d other one. She took birth in as a princess, but couldnt forget d jealousy. So she ordered d hunters to bring d head...

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The Ugly Duckling

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And tonight...will be my turn

From the Brothers Grimm. Entry all created in Photoshop. No external sources, references or brushes, just the default stuff that PS offers. See further in the SBS. Please watch in HiRes before vote, thank you.

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The sleeping beauty

And she touches the spindle and falls to sleep for a 100 years. All the poor guys that tried to get to her died among the thorns of the bushes. I created the whole image in photoshop without using any external sources.

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Glass Chess

edited

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Dancer

It was my old PST entry, found JPG from one of my backup. PSD and all detailed SBS has been lost. Mainly use masking for transparent effect and warping and shaping body. Created with source only

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Life in a bottle

credits and thanks: http://seductive-stock.deviantart.com http://dralliance-stock.deviantart.com

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Mystic Centipede

Only source image used. Attached photo for structural reference only

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Alice meets the Caterpillar

From Alice in Wonderland Thanks to Dorothy86 from DeviantArt for the narghile image The other sources are my own images.

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The cards are won

From Alice in Wonderland Sources listed, the images of the cards are mine (see SBS)

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Rapunzel

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Apocalypse Beach

Used a lot of masking here. Used a mixture of burning and dodging to get wear and tear after I made hue and saturation adjustments.

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Ark Departure Postponed

I always wanted to do something like this. Needed a lot of experimenting with blend modes and adjustments. Please view in high resolution. Thanks to SkeletalMess for the background image, pareeerica for the giraffe, Mister-E for the rhino, tanli for the zebra and **Maurice**for the image of the ...

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See, there is life on the moon

Please don't use this image for any conspiracy theories! It's fake!

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Sand Frog

My first attempt at something like this... Thanks to Hatestock.

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Sunset Stroll

Thanks to the following for their great photos. cybervin at morguefile.com for the people and horse 'beach_walk'; to mqtrf at pxleyes.com for the sky and ocean background; I added the lighthouse and birds with the brush tool.

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apple revange

apple madness

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Eggsactly

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broken egg

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reach for your vision

sources used: "Hand References: Pack Seven" by `nykolai at deviantart.com: http://nykolai.deviantart.com/art/Hand-References-Pack-Seven-28768906 the rest is source and my own images....

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The Mind

No other sources used, the brushes are all custom brushes and default photoshop brushes.

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Cyborg

Thanks to idyguy

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