GREAT concept. But the white scribbly thing is distracting and confusing.
I'd suggest making the bubbles a bit more prominent, fixing the noticeable lean in the frontmost column, and making the sea growth more consistent. Either get rid of a lot at the bottom, or add more to the rest. Also flip the flames of the LH urn behind the large one in front, and brighten the flames where needed so you don't have a couple really intense, and the rest looking washed out.

This has the potential to be a very powerful image, you just need to tighten up the execution a bit.

Too dark. Your colors are inconsistent with the sepia effect. The left hand of the witch is too green for the rest of the figure. The render clouds over the background just makes the image "noisy" looking and does not add to the mood, and the castle in the distant background steals the focus from your witch, and looks very cut and paste due to the sharp focus amongst all those rendered clouds and the color intensity. Colors lose saturation with distance.

This is an interesting concept, but there is too much happening without sufficient focus and cohesion, especially color-wise.

Too dark and too high contrast. Can't see what is going on ~ it looks like a weird white campfire in some ruins with a bird trying to avoid the flames. The red and white faced figures look to be praying to the campfire, not "dueling." They would not be praying to the same thing.

Too dark, no background. It just looks like 3/4 of only a face, with no real jaw to speak of. Also, it visually reads as "evil vs. good," since the "evil" side is on the left; should be flipped. That's why twins always pose to match the way their names are presented (e.g. "Jedward," "Mary Kate and Ashley," et al.).

Really good work, it looks quite real, except for the black background, or lack thereof. Great rendering, though!

Interesting take on the Angel of Death. Anatomy needs some work, though. One arm is noticeably thicker than the other, his bent knee is too far down, and his torso is really short. Probably explains why he has a bad attitude...

Still too dark. You have white, 5-6 shades of red, and then black, and too much black at that. The horse's back legs are indistinguishable from the shadows.

Try desaturating your image, and then adjust your levels to get a nice spread of grayscale tones. Then go to Hue and Saturation, click the colorize box, and add the reds back in.

Great work! You've made her look wonderfully "manufactured," rather than real. Good job with the skin.

The "plates" on the side of the face look too contrived, her nose looks really big, and her neck looks too squished up with her chin disappearing.

Love the color work and the top of the head, but the overall effect tries too hard.

Excellent chop! You can see from the light spot behind the bunny that the antlers are lit from the top at an angle, which is reinforced by the lighter tips on top of the ears and the back of the rabbit.

WELL DONE!

Too much symbolism, too vague, too high contrast with not enough detail or shape definition.

I think Mircea's interpretation is spot on.

I don't see anything that connotes "evil." The face is passive, the background is uneventful, and there's too much white on his right ear. He looks more like a leperous house painter than "evil..."

Not enough incorporation of the old face source. You've left so much smooth skin at the temple, cheek, ear, and neck areas that she just looks like she had a bad run in with a brick wall, not that she's aging. Remove the forehead wrinkles, and paint in some bruising and you can change the title to "after the fight."

Why doesn't she have any legs? It looks like she's just floating about 10 inches off the step...
Also the source is too blurry, she doesn't blend with it, as much as she looks pasted on top.

Great composition and nice color effect, but the trees are too blurry, both foreground and background.

The organic wings don't visually correspond with the mechanical and segmented rest of the body, and the smooth area where the wings join the body show no sign of joints or segmentation, making the wings fixed and solid in that position...

Nice work, lovely image!

I'm glad you didn't know. This is very well done!

Great concept, but the face is a too red compared to the neck, and the text should fill the image more, especially the cheek and neck area.

This is a really good image!

Amen, brother!

Beautifully subtle, yet you added some color to it, keeping it from being *another* boring monochrome. VERY nice work!

This works! Tells a visual "story," with no confusing elements. Nice chop!

Too dark. The mostly black ground beneath the caterpillar is a poor way to emphasize your efforts.

Too dark since the tree house should be your subject, but the ocean and sky are the major focal points...

The "paper" texture of the background is really hurting this image. Her forehead looks like she has really bad skin, and the dark horizontal lines are very distracting, without helping the overall composition. Her overly red ear looks like pieces are cut out of it, showing the weird paper texture, and the moon/clouds don't blend well with the face to show depth, because you have hard edged moon texture on her face.

The lip flowers are truly lovely and creative, but the rest of it seems gimmicky.

The bottom of the hat looks too blurry, and the jacket looks like nothing was done to it, making it seem that you just pasted the face on top.

I like this, but it needs a bit of tweaking. The edges of your elements are too hard, making everything look "cut and paste," instead of blended into one image. The hips/legs of the guy are a different color from the arms, and are do not contrast enough with the ice, except for the hard edges. The ice does not look like it is encasing the guy, it just looks like a background.

I would soften the edges (blur took, small brush size, about 45%) for better blending, color adjust the top and bottom of the body for consistency (Select from the bottom of the shirt down, and use Hue and Saturation), and would create some ice on the "water" to form around the edges of the guy at the base.

I'd also add some shading to the pegs in the ice to give them some depth, they look very flat.

Great illustration of the size concept, but the lighting needs a lot of work. The planet is not lit so poorly that the baby's feet would be almost invisible in shadow, unless it was night. By contrast, there is a glaring white spot on the baby's shoulder that is very distracting, and is matched by the overly bright spot on the diaper.
The elephant "toy" (EXCELLENT size emphasis for the image) should have some sort of harness, instead of the cable just coming out of his back, and shows a rough extraction edge and some white pixels ~ Try using the Extraction Tool or the Pen Tool for better edges.

Consistency and edges are the key to good Photo-chopping, and you cannot "cover up" inconsistencies by simply making everything dark.

I like the concept, but didn't catch the "eyes" until I read your description.

Terrific imagination, VERY funny, especially the doorman! Good work, good entry!

It's too dark, and there's too much wasted (empty) space on the RH side. You should crop it to better emphasize your focal point, and bring up the lighting so people can make out what they are looking at. It looks like some multi-legged creature with a house for a head.

It's too dark without sufficient scale comparison. Whatever it is in the lower RH corner isn't clearly identifiable and the top of the horse is almost impossible to distinguish from the clouds. There's also a very noticeable white edge around the legs and backside of the horse.

I've seen her in a bar! LOL! Cute entry.

It's too dark. Lighting needs to be consistent, and for the amount of reflection on the jewelry, the rest of the image would not be so shadowed.

Great job adjusting the color reflections at the top of the pitcher!

Nice work, except she seems to have a wonky eye, with one looking up and one looking outwards...

Nator, just because it's a drawing doesn't excuse poor perspective...Yeah, everything can be called "Art," but that doesn't mean it's "Good" Art.

Proper anatomy and equal perspective is part of an artist's skills.

Better, but still too dark just right of the light house and just right of the source image. But overall it's MUCH easier to "read" and appreciate. The domed city especially looks good.

But it's "in the bag," not "in the chest, invisible..."

His (her?) left stump is way wider than her right...Also her shoulders are too small, there's barely room for her arm to attach next to her neck - she has no collarbone to speak of.

Cute creature shape, but it doesn't look like it's skating on ice, just water, and the light reflections from the source look out of place to the overall image, where there is no bright shining "spot" to illuminate things. Also, the sides are oddly shadowed (Burn Tool?), stopping suddenly with super bright next to shadowed, this especially looks weird with the pine tree "illuminated," and the bright stripe on the right of the bubble water skater...

Imaginative concept, but the execution needs tweaking.

Too dark. It's very difficult to see all the effort you put into the background.
Also your light source is inconsistent. Something is shining on top of the dome, but on the side of the light house, yet not at all on the hard to discern rocks. Yet the source metal image is lit from the opposite side on the ground, and is throwing off a shadow in the direction of its light source...consistency is as important as making your image light enough to be seen.

The lighting is kinda wonky...Is it nighttime, with a really bright field light shining on them? Also the refraction on the ball is so bright it almost looks ready to burst into flames...

The concept is very cute, but the effect is still a bit too rough.

It's too dark and indistinct. Is the figure flat or 3 dimensional? Is that a tree on the right or a frost pattern?
No background hurts this image more than helps it.

It's too dark...With that large of a full moon, the ground would be illuminated, not pitch black with backlighting. The moon illuminates the entire planet, not just sections. In the fall, the "Harvest Moon" is so named because it illuminates the Earth enough that crops can be harvested at night.

Where's the bag? I just see a chest...

Love the hair! Good work, author!

SUPER LEMON! Love it! I agree to VERY slightly blur the motion in the center. Maybe even give it a little "super cape..." Nice work!

Nice image, but a bit OTT (over the top) with the icicles under the eye and the frozen sweat runs on the forehead and cheeks. Also the long ice crystals along the bottom all seem to be pointing the same direction, making them look too much alike. But I think the edges are very nicely done!