Nice work here...especially good shadow on the wagon...GL author!

Beautiful blue creature and the background is amazing!

The flowers that you made in the back scene is much more detail and sharp compared with the main object so it looks like out of focus. Maybe if you use dodge and burn tool more on the bird to increase the level of shadow and highlight, it will look better. Nice job, tho, and thanks to you now I know what kind of bird is cookatoo . Good luck to you.

Lovely, looks like water color painting

nice job.., for more finishing up.., use the smudge tool with pressure 20-30 with hard rounded brush..., (the tail area I suggest.) good luck to you

Much better now, good luck

I think you should give a little texture tot he moon, it looks too plain, great job overall.

I just wish to see that cute creature more clearly. Anyway, by a careful look into that glass I can see it was made gorgeously

Poor little prisoner, its eyes are so sad

Definately an improvement ... liked the first one but this guy has a whole other personality! And I prefer the new background. The whole image is not as weird or dark and IMO I like it better that way.

wonderful work on the creature...... the glass tube too, good luck man...

Great work ...nice SBS, very clear and easy to follow

Really good job and nice dimensional prospective author. Good Luck.

Love the mood and colors

Fantastic work author...great colors and final result...well done

Beautiful entry author...changes that u made fit perfectly...work on a tree is master piece...well done

Great improvement!

Almost looks like something Dali would do given a Hamburger to work with ... the tree is particularly good! GL

Looks better, author! Nice effort!

good work author gl

Nice concept ... just a quick add on to my suggestion. You can "paint" out some of the High pass layer if you find it is sharpening something too much. Just turn the layer back to Normal and the using a 50% gray brush set on 50-75% opacity to paint out the over sharp (usually white) lines.

Composition is a hard one ... I know what Mossy means but you have framed the image nicely. I think the biggest problem there is the mountain in the very center and the white line. Other that that it is a great "painting". Definitely heading in the right direction!

I know it is a probably too late but adding grain can help give a sharper look to smudged images . A good way to do that is to add a new 50% neutral gray layer (fill empty layer with gray) and the run the grain filter on it. Once you have the layer done you can set it on Soft light blend mode and then set the opacity on whatever looks best. For sharpening you can duplicate your finished image, apply the High Pass filter to it at about 2-5 % (depending on the image resolution). Then set the layer on Soft Light or Hard Light. Set opacity at what you want. There is more but out space

Wonderful, GL!

Very nice, GL!

You can try smart sharpen on the foliage layer, but it will leave "halo" artifacts...
In general, avoid the smudge tool.

I'd paint out that horizontal road and the lines beneath it, and if you must have a road, make one that curves from the tree up to the right over the "mountain."

Beautiful color scheme, but the composition really needs some work...
The tree trunk looks nice, but everything else is quite blurry looking, especially the tree leaves. The odd horizontal lines in the lower third are confusing and distracting (but not enough to overcome the blurriness), and the white road visually cuts your image into two pieces.

COOL!

Nice colors, author.

hehehe.. reminds me of all the illustrations from the 70's.. sigh.. such a wonderful creation.. good luck author

Professional logo!

cute blue bird.

ACK!!! DISNEY INVASION! YELP!!

hehehe, great job author, now when can I look up Snow White's Dress? hehehe

Cool to the eye!

To add to pearlie's palette observation, I think the black background captures the notion of 'adventure,' a slightly ominous feel of not knowing what to expect. This is butressed by the slightly edgy font of the main text.

Well done, author, I like how you used the golds and blue and their placement.

very nicely done!

Congrats george

Congrats on your 3rd place...

Congrats!!

Blue and dreamy, love it!

Love the mood

very very nice work...great shapes and fantastic details...GL author

very nice piece...love the colors...gl author

Lava planet is amazing author...whole scene looks cool but that part is top notch...best of luck

very moody scene author...planets looks awesome...best of luck

looks good

Very dramatic. Would make a great cover for a 1950's sci-fi paperback but not quite as realistic as today's Hollywood blockbusters [my re-interpretation of Lukas's comment].

interresting concept, i like the spaceships and the planets, besides the "sun", it looks too blurry, has no texture and looks too "pasted-in". I also think the hills/rocks are too over sharpened and have too much contrast.

very well done, great SBS

Congrats! Well done!!!