Tropical Bird

No outside source.

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smile please

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A Mother's Love

A contemporary composition, designed using only the source photo.

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King of the Dwarfs

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awww pretty colors

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The Parrosus

This took pretty much all weekend. A LOT of hours, but the further I got into it the more I was liking it, so I just kept going and going! Finding new places that I thought there needed to be feathers and so on. It was a ton of fun to make, hope you all enjoy it :)

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one last look before bedtime

drew the hair, the hair bands, the skin overlay, and the freckles.

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Venice

Palazzo Contarini dal Bovolo

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Sentinel

Thanks Laurel Fan,Wikipedia.

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watch

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Chop

chop more.. talk less High res looks better

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Moths

Source image and photoshop

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morning break

source combined with brushes from FALLN>D'art. THANKS FALLN!

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ephemera

only reference used was the skull.

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Dancing with Flowers

Thanks to lindseywb at flckr.com for the statue photo; and thanks to badastonomy at flickr for the eagle nebula source photo;

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Quiet

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Gothic Revisited

This old chicken house was perfect for this contest, thanks to cindy47452 at flickr.com. It is a take-off, of course, of the well-known painting 'American Gothic' by Grant Woods. You can take a look at it at Wikipedia if you're not familiar with it.

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Sin me to Death...

All seven deadly sins in one. Even after death our sins will not part...

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The Devil & the deep blue sea

All source with reference :) *Edit : Added eye, smoke, darker background and fixed the nostril.

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Potion

Source image and photoshop

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The sweetest sound...

All source with reference.

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Birds

Thanks asifthebes,wikimedia.

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Magalohr ride

It´s traditionally the final step for Seguji to ride the Magalohr befor he grows from a boy to a man. Actually Magalohrs are realy calm animals, comparable to our cows. Only in the mating season they turn wild. Part of the courtship is to run and jump around like crazy. A perfect time for a te...

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Swapped..!!!

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