Congratulations

sweet little bird

Congrats again George!!

Congrats George!!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats George

Is so purdy!

Nice!

well done George.. scary critter

Congrats

Congrats George!!

Congrats!

WOW.. world of difference.. really got rid of the flattening.. great fix author

Holy trashed meerkat Batman!

Yeeshers...hehehe.. you may want to consider giving the holes a little more depth with shading... to give some curvature to the underlying bloody flesh.. it looks terrific but kind of flat.. but it is your vision so don't worry about it if you are happy with it. The eyes are FANTASTIC. Bevel emboss is a great shortcut in these types of situations and fiddling with the settings (the color/depth/opacity) helps with giving it a more realistic feel. Again, only if you think it might help. The over all effect is AWESOME and will be perfect for Halloween Good Luck and Great Job

Oh ishkabibble... perfect for this contest

Perhaps Blonde's don't have more fun after all? Good luck!

Congrats George!!

Congrats!

Congrats!

well done George ..

Congrats on third!

Very fun and well put together, would love to see it blended like a renaissance piece.

Lookin' good!

Dat's a lotta fun! Good luck and great composition.

I see what you are doing here author, my only suggestion is to get rid of the water spray around the sand water hole to give the water a better feeling of passing through the desert floor. At the moment it looks like the water is splashing all around but has no reason for being there. As it is a surrealistic image, it really doesn't matter but I find if the water looked like it was shooting straight through the sand it would make more sense and not just look like two photos on top of each other. ONLY A SUGGESTION.. It's fine just the way it is, but I'm just thinking of continuity. Good luck.

Congrats!

Congrats George!!

Beautiful, congrats!

Congrats of 5th!

Congratulations.

Congrats!

Congrats

much cuteness in this one author. lovely

Much better.

Nice work on the globe...GL author.

Looks like you worked on the globe some more, much improved IMO!

very good composition

great choice of background pic ... and gratz on your snowglobe learning

BEEEEEE BOOOOOO BEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOO (Hallmark ALERT!!!) Can't breathe... too.. much...... cuteness.. I'm going DOWN dOWN doWN dowN down....

Feels like I just ate a Greeting Card Sandwich. Great JOB!!! hehehe

Good shadows & perspective.

The perspective of the table is still way off. Perspective isn't that difficult to learn, there are many tutorials you can find on line about perspective.
Here are a couple from youtube that are very basic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgeMDL-gXDQ
and this one about cylinders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMRhuUQREMQ

Look at these images from pixabay: https://pixabay.com/en/sandwich-food-meal-lunch-lettuce-1643653/
https://pixabay.com/en/boards-wooden-tables-background-1339190/

Just use perspective on the wooden planks and it will ground the whole thing. Right now you are getting a floating effect from the parallel lines. It looks more like a wooden fence and not a wooden floor. It's still a great chop. Good Luck.

On a side note, we used to get that type of snow globe at the Gift Gallery and they had a switch on them and they would activate themselves. I would hold them perfectly still in my hands, flip the switch on the bottom and they'd swirl like crazy. SOLD A TON OF THEM. hehehe

Lovely work. Very well done.
A suggestion for improvement is to give the wooden floor the same perspective as the base of the globe. Two different perspectives make it look like the globe is not sitting correctly on the floor.

Top notch work great use of textures and light

added to favs.

Nice one...but I hate it when a tree grows through my clock face...

Looks good. If you rotate the moon about 90 degrees clockwise it will match the angle of the sunlight.