Nice job with the lighting effects

Great creativity on creating the pumpkin and skull!

Cute idea, but the 'p' is lost, looking more like a ball. Perhaps a white line (solid or dashed) in the center of the letters would help define the 'p' better, and give it more "road" cred.

The contrast around the bird's neck is too dark, it looks like it's purposely outlined, which emphasizes that it doesn't look blended, so much as cut and paste.
The background and mood are very nice, reminiscent of chinese intaglio prints.

Interesting concept. The perspective angle of the pond is a bit too extreme. The perspective is such that the water would "fall out," and the nose of your creature is a bit too dark to easily discern what is going on. I thought it a woman with no head, then a woman with a ribbon coming out of her neck, before I finally recognized it as a skull at the end of the ribbon. Perhaps increase the lighting behind the skull?

Really cute subject! Nicely done.

Great manipulation, but the frontmost bubbles, and the water on the ground are too high contrast and white-out bright.

The color edges is a bit too rough and visually obvious. Perhaps a mild manual blur along the edge would help.

The house is a bit too stylized for the rest of the image, it is somewhat confusing looking.
Otherwise, this is a truly lovely piece.

The table does not fit into the image, there are no reflections or highlights.
Likewise, the shadow behind the phone has no relation to the light source providing the reflections on the phone, it just doesn't fit...

Excellent concept and execution. I too, agree with velkanx. Make the paint all match the sunflower.

LOL! Very creative, creepy, and cute, all in one, well done!

The heart cutout is too large, it makes the heads look almost totally disconnected from the body.

Lovely composition, but the inconsistency between the realism of the sunflowers and the painted sections is too dramatic. Perhaps simplifying the photo texture, or painting more realistic details on the hair and the distant background would help.

You should put a person on the opposite side of the stairs in the night part...
Excellent and very creative idea you've done here!

Nice consistency on the lighting, good "mood." The hair flying in the wind is a bit too blurry and solid looking, though.

The light rays coming out if don't help the composition. It would look better if you had a rim light or other external light source.

What a cute concept!
Excellent chop work on all the elements, especially the frogs! Well done!

Has nothing to do with YOUR egg whisk...
Unlike you, I don't compare other people's work. I merely point out what I observe about the piece, without the need for smileys.

A bit inconsistent. Looks like she's "channeling" an egg whisk...

Too much smudge tool coming off the body. Makes it kind of look like a cactus.

You should source cite the tutorial you followed for the main light effect. Since you used the same forest source image, it's pretty obvious.

The text is too close to the girl, and gets a bit lost in the light effect.

The woman's dress is too dark for all the lighting effects around her.

I think "my own photograph" IS the face source.

Her nose looks misplaced too far over to the side, her hands are too small, and part of her thigh isn't colored at all.
The basic sketch is cute, but the uneven coloring brings it down a bit.

The lighting on the violin (front left) does not match the light source on the woman (above front left.
It also does not look like she is holding it, because the edges are too sharp in comparison to the rest of the image, and the position of her fingers would have it slipping through them.

This picture is all over the place, execution-wise. The blue birds are blurry, but the leaves in front of and behind them are crystal clear sharp.
The reflection of the birds in the water is at about a 45 degree angle difference from the reflection of the rocks.
The colors are not cohesive, with the reds and yellows too warm tones to go with the cool tone of the birds, the water, and the rocks.

This is a very creative composition, but the technical execution of it is too inconsistent.

One of her shoes has a higher sole than the other. Is she deformed and needing corrective shoes?

Creepy but cool. Excellent blending. Very seamless and well done job.

Would have worked better if you'd whitened the real lion so it blended into the statue more. The color difference is too distracting.

The shadow under the chin seems to be shading thin air.

Interesting, but his head is really tiny compared to the rest of his body, and even the girl's head next to him.

Great concept. My only crit is the white edge around the platelets. Image>Adjustments>Selective Color>White, increasing the Magenta, yellow, and black would bring those down and make them match the rest of the image better.

Excellent work. VERY nice mood and very attractive composition. GOOD job!

The coloring is a bit rough, the skin around the left eye looks green in tone, but the overall concept is great!

Very original and creative!
The mouths are a bit oversized and off angled, making this look a little unnatural, but I really like your concept!

Since you have a backlight behind the alien, you need more of a rim light around them.

The chin shadow on the left is a bit too harsh, but otherwise an excellent chop. Gahhh! That poor child! LOLOL...Great job!

Her left nostril is a bit too flat, but otherwise a very good job!

Love the character, but his head should be more cylindrical. It's a bit flat. VERY cute, though!

A bit too blurry.

The "light bulbs" look wonky with dark centers and no mounts. They look like little glowing donuts, and aren't illuminated where the sunlight is coming down.

Cheeky title, but it works. Nice chop, but the water reflection is a bit too rough.

Damn, that is one fugly kid...lol! Great chop, very creative!

Simply awesome work! Lot of effort went into this, and it shows. VERY well done!

The hand is almost impossible to see, and the ripple effect too slight - it looks like noise, and I can't figure out what is on the LH side.

Perhaps a few more "underwater light ripples" and a small fish swimming by would help. Here is a tutorial that might give you some ideas: http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureid=1792
Interesting concept!

The painted face looks very flat. It needs some shading, and maybe a bit of texture (Filter>Texture>Texturizer>Sandstone, and then Edit>Fade Texturizer to lessen the effect) to make it blend better with the rest of the image. Also the nostrils look wonky.

But a very creative overall approach to the source image. Good job!

The final result is very blurry, and the overlay of the organic texture turned into a strange shape and lost almost all the interest from when you first applied it to your background image. It looked quite interesting at that stage, but then became overdone.

Nice work. The butt looks a bit flat, and could use a little shadow contouring, but the overall execution is excellent!