*speechless*

Its a wonderful idea,good luck

awesome ,very plushy bumble beee

compare to the pots the woman and the rest of the image missing i the light ( sunlight on pots )and shadow ( rest of image is more overcast ), Also the woman has ( as allready mentioned ) different colortones ( try match colors or adjust manually ) bench showing some white edges ( use defringe tool to solve this Problem )

never give up on something.You should really continue this work , even its only for your own personal use .We grow in learning , stop learning means stoping to exist.Contests are always a challenge, may i can suggest you to look at few more tutorials , for several technics
established Painters have a very own set of brushes and each have a own style to paint .Just keep going on