I tried to help you. No need to come at me like that.

Us Photoshoppers can see imperfections in an instant. We also have Photographers on this site who have just as good, or better, eyes than we do, and they too may be judging your art. The contest calls for an image up to 3500 X 3500 so you may as well take advantage of that. Your image is 1500 X 1000 and will have to be scaled UP in order accommodate even the lowest resolution desktop monitor they sell today - which is 1920 X 1080. This scaling by itself will add noise, blur, etc, and make the image look worse. In other words, when "we" (the judges) look at it, we are seeing it all messed up looking. In these contest people don't know or care about the reasons you may be using to make your images smaller. We just look at it and determine how well it looks to us.

While you did fix a great deal of noise, there still is "copious" amounts of it left. You did lessen the yucky fringing on the legs, by a lot, but it is still "glaringly" obvious. Now trust me, I am not getting critical here at all. These things that I am pointing out are very obvious. I can and do get very critical when critiquing images, but that is not what I am doing now. These things are still very recognizable, distinct, evident, and clear as a bell.

https://image.ibb.co/eyeuHe/yucky_statue.jpg

There is some real bad white fringing on the far right leg and some on top of the other, probably from a poor cut out. Those blown out highlight areas on the legs are real bad. There is also a ton or jpg atficats everywhere. Very apparent in the clouds, around the shoes, legs, and lighthouse. I don't know why you made this so small or what jpg setting you used, but you need to crank it up a whole lot more.

I am not going to red flag it. The mods will eventually decide if a toy qualifies as a statue/sculpture or not. In my opinion all toys qualify as statues though. Dolls are just mini 3D statues or models of people, animals or cartoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doll
I just thought the contest idea was more along this line.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCwcKEUcqcU&t=245s

Where is the sculpture that you created? You have done nothing to the source images except cut out and resize the chocolate and paste it on top of the other.

Your masha is already a statue. We are not allowed to use sources which are already sculptures or statues. The idea is to make one out of something which is not a sculpture or stature.

Congrats on 1 and 2 Ernest

Well done how you got the chopper in so clear like it belonged there. REalistic.

Love this one... the dark outline works well in this way..

Just came over to this side to have a peek....HOLY GUACAMOLE this caused a shiver to run down my spine. Loved it.

Love your statue.. but the backgroud is not art

I think you deserve a congrats.... not a bad image....

Congratulations on 3rd and 4th place Ernest.

Nice 3rd DS!!

I will try to remember this because forever I have problems cutting out hair. Thank you.

Members like Skyangel and BWR frighten the beegeebees outta me, their work is stellar and I just "fave" their pieces, study them, sometimes write to them to get more in depth responses, which they always give. Slowly, some day ! Thank you for your encouragement.

Channel masking and Calculations can save time. It makes "hard" cut outs like this lightning very easy to do. This technique is also good for hair, feathers, and many other irregular things.

@ still26, join the fun. The only way to learn is to do. Come join us.

Your escape from misery adds to my misery recognizing how limited I am in creativity when it comes to chop and paste and manipulate as you have done. I come to this side of the site and get stimulated, inspired and encouraged and your work has done that for me....so thank you....

YOU DREW THIS !?! Did you use a WACOM tablet. I would not have minded to see a bit more detail of background as the clipping (block ups) detracts and could be used as a great "backup singers" tool. There appears to be some incongruity around the tail. You have the shadow down pat, but parts look pasted on. The colour palette used gives a cool feel.

What a grand idea to put this up in monochrome for it gives us a sneaky feel of the robot beneath. The blending looks well done here and not pasted on.

The comments given to you above are a goldmine of information, not only for you but to those of us struggling. I love your idea, it is truly creative...just needs polishing up.

ha ha ha ha....I just got the title! What a great imagination you have on all levels. The patch that is lifted throws me off , feels unbalanced a bit as it gets too much attention and not the robotic part...but that is just me.

This reminds me of the BORG from Star Trek (the episode with HUGH). I find the nose a tad of a distraction as it is not in focus. Woof!

I like the name. He isn't a K-9, he is a K-9000.

You can extract that lightening very nicely with "Calculations" set to "Grey + Gray and Multiply". I don't have a mic but I made a video for you to show you how to do this lightning VERY VERY quickly and very decently. Mind you, this is a good extraction, but there is more to it if you want to get it better. You will have to research this more if you want to get into absolute perfection, but what I showed you in the video is very fast and mostly good enough. I advice you to research Calculations (as well as Channel Masking). It is an extremely powerful tool!!

https://youtu.be/9In0YM67gyQ

Also there are "hair/grass" brushes in Photoshop. I think they are #133 and #134 or there abouts. You can use them to mask in the cat's antennae rather than just putting a black dot over them. Hope this all helps.

Viva la com·mer·cial·ism.

Where did those "5 " plates come from?... Am i missing something?

Nice 2nd Drivenslush

Optically delusional.

Very interesting..

Hello, I'm writing to you from Thailand, not Bangkok but close (Chiang Mai). I love the chop of this upload. Please have a look on her R shoulder. See that? There is a spot you missed, you might want to fix it before the Photoshoppe Police spot it! Top of the shelf work.

Very well done. But maybe you should put this picture in the SBS section and present the square in a frame or as it is (to make it prettier) in the contest part.

The edges of that hole are kinda sharp.

Some motion blur might help.

Cool idea, I think it would look even cooler if you worked the base of those "ring worms" some. Maybe some shadow/grounding work; or make it look like they were coming out of the ground texture.

This is cool....

Very very original ! love it good luck author !

Rude concept, but good. Check the glare on the "shroom head" though.

so cute

I expected a better result for this cute one.... !

This is insane, I love it!

You might make it more alive if you make the water line (above > underwater) a little less rigid.

very cool !

Looks like you had a lot of fun warping. It is time consuming work. Did you feel like you were in a time warp?

Nice work. The background perhaps could stand a little blur and shadow/highlight adjustment IMHO. Nice concept!

I love her!!!

thanks

Please post your additional sources

congrats ds