the entry is awesome!

love the entry and the result but you could of done this with any source as far as i thought the original source needs to be vissible... its not in my opinion..

Very awesome overall! The shadows on the upright plate on the top shelf make it look more like a ring with a rotating disk inside it. The balls on the bottom plate [where did the gray come from?] look like they're floating (and I think painting those pure accessories in the cow design--except for the brown front [which I like otherwise] of the front ball for some reason--might be too much). I admit I'm not real fond of the blue drapery background which seems too formal with folk art, but that's probably very minor point.

Beautiful job my kinda entry lovin it, yes tweek on those shadows just a tad and you'll have a real nice one for sure Oh and by the way the tutorial is top shelf work also

This is such a great image because the cow itself is a sculpture. Plates and cups are just mini sculptures. So the cow's body just translates so well into cups and plates. Excellent idea!

Really good job except for the balls in the front...shadows need adjusting.

super idea!

talk about moorcroft.. great play on th sorce

very nice! i like it a lot

very good job... like real...

Great entry

very nice

Excellent! i love this one

Although the image is well done, I believe the use of source is very poor. This could have been made with anything and the source is not recognizable in any way. These type of entries belong in theme contests, not source contests.

I like the way u made the tree :P really nice

Author let me be clear: I wasn't judging your image, just the use of source. You are right about we're here to learn and we all have different tasts. If something like this would have been posted in a theme contest you would have gotten a complete different comment by me Just my personal view, hope you're not offended. Didn't mean to.

well done

my problem is: could you have made this with ANY other source? I think the answer is yes and therefor the use of the source is weak. If you've set the brush to scatter there wouldn't be that repetative pattern in the leaves. In other words: not my piece of cake

Sorry...

very artistic. love the blue hues and lighting in this creation. well done

this is what i call true art... very nice...

Very nice work.

Wonderful creation I love the bird and I know it was hard work, but I had to look at your sbs to see where you put the source to use. Other than that wonderful image.

I think we have a winner !!!! ...grate job author

great entry! i love this image its very cool!

Wow! Great use of source! I love entries like these!! Good luck

very nice

Love this image! Beautiful feel and great source work! High marks Author.

Congrats!!

Looks.. GREAT! Good job!

awesome image

Nice work Author

just excellent and beautiful.. really struck a mood (kinda looks like some of the scenes in castaway, when he's in the cave.. really wonderful mood and great use of source

(AUTHOR fix your link to the cave image.. it's PXL.. not PIXEL)

all fixed

Congrats! great work

congrats!!

Congrats!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats for your second place with this amazing entry!

Congrats! Love this piece and the shadows did turn out much better!

Congrats great work on this!

im still not that happy with the shadows but i fav it anyway it´s an amazing image. it speaks!

congrats this was a beautiful entry.

Simply amazing!

Amazing work...........

Very cool

Amazing work author

wow pretty darn cool

looks like you´ve used a motion blur on the shadow. PLEASE let me Fav this too. So, merge your trees as a copy, turn them to black. transform it to perspektiv. to blurr them, use a small gausian, or, better, use the blurrtool and soften them at the tree just a lil, and to the viewers point more. the hard shadows at the tree in the first post looked better. try to go from thouse hardness to a blurr the farer it gets away. hope you get what i mean, sometimes i talk around corners i think

Fabulous colours first class work!

Looks great