You're most welcome, author, glad I could be of help.
Great correction, very impressive work, now!

If you overlay both images in Photoshop, the disproportionate size of the face is more than obvious. But some people like bobblehead dolls, and think they look okay too...

The face is too large on the body. Notice where the chin and the eyes fall in the original portrait.

Great image choice, but the disproportionate sizing makes Beckham look like a bobblehead.

Too heavy a filter usage on the hand, it's hard to make out what it is, and distracts from the text with the confusion, instead of complimenting it.

The balloon looks too small to support the basket and the girl. I'd enlarge it to look more proportional. Nice composition, overall, though!

The skin tones of the faces don't match the bodies - too pink and too light in value.

The red reflection on the side of the can is too bright and sharply angled, it should be a bit softer and curved at the top.

What's the baby got a grudge against? Grudge means resentment.
Are you sure you don't mean "grunge," for the grimy, dirty looking effect???

The lettering is too dark at the bottom, it's almost impossible to read, making it an ineffective addition to the image.

Her face seems a bit deformed on the RH side, but nice blending.

This is truly creative and cute. Very nice technique, and nice values of light and dark. Well done!

I think this would have been more effective if the type had been constructed from wire, instead of just mounting letters on wires...

The lighting of the text is also inconsistent with the rest of the image, showing strong lighting from the top and bottom, while the environment shows side lighting on some wires, and a weird bright spot with dark corners in the background. A clearly established light source, consistently applied to all elements in the image would have made this much stronger.

Interesting chop, but the lighting on the bald heads is very inconsistent to the bodies, especially the two in front. The on on the RH side shows a weird shadowed line across the brow, and the one on the LH side is noticeably darker than the rest of his head. Lighting consistency is the key to a visually believable image, and you haven't quite achieved it here.

The perspective of the feet is at a different angle than the body, with the front legs shorter than the back.

Wonky anatomy. Arms, legs and perspective. The cornucopia on the shoulder is visually out of place.
Really nice concept, but somewhat sloppy execution.

"...Not perfect, theo... Nobody perfect, rite? And... No entry perfect too."
That's a poor excuse.
This is not a competition site to make excuses. No entry is perfect, but generally we try our best with our entries...

Author, you also don't need to tell us the software and drawing tablet you use for your entries. This gives away your identity too easily.

Beautiful background texture and very nice colors!

Missy, have you heard of Google Translate? People the world over use it successfully. Especially since the Rules basics here aren't that complex in language...
http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=iT

I like this incarnation much better.

If you are a new member, there is no excuse for not reading the rules. That is what they are here for.
If you read the rules, you will hopefully follow them, and your entries will not get pulled.

If you refuse to read and follow the rules, you have no one to blame but you.

Too heavy a use of the fractalius filter, and the text on the right is not really readable, it's just distracting.

This is nicely done and subtle. I get a feeling of calm evening seas. Good work!

The sun in the background does not correspond with the light shining down into the letters. The upper 'e' and 'd' are too light on the bottom and along the inside top, and the lower 'd' is too light on the RH outside (about halfway down) for as low a light source as your background.

THe pink and gray shadows on the top and back of the skull are darker than the rest of her head, making it look like her head is "dented." If you can even out the coloring and depth values, it will help. Notice how the light source on her face is from the upper, near center right. Her bald skull needs to likewise show that type of lighting to be consistent.

The top of the 'e' is missing it's depth, and the 'i' looks wonky where it intersects the leg of the person, but otherwise, the lettering looks very dynamic and fits the image well!

The skin coloring has a very obvious value change on the LH side in a reverse 's' shape, with the area above his right eyebrow also noticeably darker and a different color, and the lighting does not match in value or direction on the RH side of the image. The skin texture is also obviously different.

The anatomy is somewhat off - Hands too small, eye holes too high, legs disproportionately and inconsistently fat/thin, but a creative idea.

A bit too much white shine on the creature - tone that down, and this will be awesome!

Great photo! It looks like she's enjoying the feel of her hairless head. Nice job!

The wings are misplaced, they look attached to his butt, and off to one side, rather than centered off the spine. It looks like there's a bird behind him, instead of him having wings.

Great image, but "Fear" is too hard to read, especially the 'a'.

Edit: Better. The high contrast blue and the lightning are a bit distractive, which overpowered the "cut outs," but you've got them more visible now.

Extremely minimal use of the contest source.

I like the concept, but the proportions make this look really weird. The ship (and possibly the iguana monster) is too large for its position in relation to the shoreline.

Also, the "mood" shadow in the LH corner echos the sea monster too much, which combined with the down slope of the hill on the right, draws the eye down and off the side of the composition rather than bringing it back to the *oversized* boat.

Better, but not quite there, yet.
Yes, she now has two ears, but they are "nubs," not full ears.
Ears generally run from the upper eyelid to the tip of the nose (except for old people - their ears can be ginormous!).

Here are a couple pics of Rihanna with "real" ears:
http://vpqv.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rihanna-2009-grammy-salute-to-industry-icons-04.jpg
http://www.angryblacklady.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rihanna.jpg

Sorry, I don't get it. I don't see any hearth, unless you're making a play on the word "heart," there is no visible support or base for this to stand properly without falling over, and the rope at the top is just plain confusing...

EDIT: "Reads" much better now.

Beautiful colors, but the lipstick is bulgy looking on the LH side, like it's starting to melt.

Edit: Better!

Looks like she's missing her right ear...

The frog-snake is too similar in tone to the grassy background. Perhaps a wee bit of a warming filter on the background to give it a hint of a color difference...

I think the backwards 'p' would have looked better facing the right, but laying on the ground..."choq" just looks too weird.
Beautiful rendering, though!

"...could not stand to sit on the computer ..." Of course not, because then you'd be standing, not sitting...lolol!
Sorry you're feeling bad, but your image is lovely!

The angle of the top is off for the baby standing on it, it's too high in front, the kid would be falling backwards...

The dog is too hard edged, looking very "cut and paste," and the lighting on it does not fit with the rest of the image, since it is in shadow, yet is fully illuminated and casting a shadow in a different direction from the kid...

The waterfall is likewise lit from an entirely different direction than your light source in the sky.

Plus, your rainbow is distorted into an ellipse...

Good concept, but very rough in execution, with little attention to details and consistency.

Looking better, but who puts a window curtain or blind on the OUTSIDE of the window???

The white lines are crooked and sloppy looking, and the "roads" are not even in width proportion.

Cute concept, but the execution of it needs work.

The angle of the bed is tilted a bit too much, you'd slide off the bottom. Your corners are also a bit too thick and don't meet up quite right in the upper RH corner.
It would be nice to see something outside that pitch black window. Even the darkest night isn't quite that opaque...

Beautiful color scheme, though!

Really better now! Good effort!

Hayato says:
"Ouch, MossyB, really ouch..."

That's exactly my sentiment! Since this is a competition, rather than a display website, entries need more attention to basics like lighting and composition and consistency...
Getting rid of the lighthouse and the stretched skeleton helped the composition a LOT, but the woman is still too brightly lit from the opposite side of your other main elements. Her leg could be a lighthouse by itself...

The rain looks much better, but the yellow smudgy strokes in the corners are distracting, and the totally desaturated image except for the king and the yellow smudges does not give the image an overall integrated feeling.

Better, though.

The bird and the pumpkins are too dark for the very bright lighting of the image. The bird should show some back lighting glow, and the pumpkins should have some light on the top, not just be black shapes with eyes. Also, if the ground is so illuminated, why is the back and the ground behind the woman so dark? She is not under the edge of a tree or building, and the light appears to extend at least to the trees in the far background, so having everything turn "instantly" dark when it reaches her is a bit far-fetched, rather than "moody."

Really nice work with the mottled lighting and the skin painting.

The bottom of the wooden baseboard is a bit too light, especially since you have a "shadow line" along the top where it meets the wall - the bottom should have a wee bit of shadow where it meets the floor.

But overall, this is a very elegant and well constructed image. Nice work!

Very delightful image! The only nit pick is the inconsistent sky coloring, with the strokes going too many directions in a haphazard manner, and with odd curves included. If they are meant to be clouds, they should not echo the foreground shapes quite so much...Still, VERY well done!

Beautiful composition, but I agree, the characters appear somewhat flat. The center appears to be taking place in a room with the background consisting of painted large creatures watching. This is particularly because of the shadow behind the green figure.

The creature in the lower RH corner (werewolf?) looks out of place, and almost an afterthought, with the glowing edge of the figure in front of his mouth aligning too much with the profile of his face. The glow itself is out of place and inconsistent with the image lighting.

This is a very entertaining image, none the less.

Interesting effect, but the image itself doesn't really "tell a story" or illustrate any type of "fantasy."
It is essentially just a bird gimmicked up with a glow and a bunch of swirly brushwork beneath it.

An effect, does not a "Fantasy SCENE" make. Re-read the contest description, and the emphasis on "scene."