RoboDog

Just a quickie for fun, only masking tools/brush and a bit of color tweaking was used.

For: robotic pets contest

Bite me!

Loaned the eyes from a source image and blended in, the rest is just basic hand/brush work with layers.

For: door knocker contest

InnerSpiration

This is my "I am back!" -entry for the PXLeyes. I was away for a LONG time, and now I felt like refreshing my "art"-hobby. This one took mostly a lot of work by hand and standard brushes, to add texture for the "ball" made from the sunshade, and blending in the extra g...

For: young monk contest

The Forest of Demons

For: bench sideview contest

The Connection

External brushes by hawksmont http://hawksmont.com/blog/category/graphic_design/resources/brushes/

For: light people contest

Step into Music

I'm pretty sure the original instrument is viola (kind of heavy built alto violin) but anyways, I took some artistic liberties with the proportions as well as with the idea of a rock star playing oversized viola like a guitar. Notes used are from my own notebook, Chopin's Waltz, opus 64, n. 2 ...

For: violin contest

The Sacred Family

For: dirty statue contest

The Middle Class Dream

I chose an original retro picture from the 1950's without colour as I wanted some challenge. I tried to keep the feeling of an actual old photograph. Besides standard brushes I used several external sources for the textures. I somewhat doubled the original image size to make working a bit easier...

For: colorization contest

New King in Town

Removed the statue, fixed the background (added some height to make better perspective so that the tiger and statue appear larger). Added a tale for the tiger from another source (hard work with the colours). The rest is handwork and HDR toning/color adjustment.

For: lion statue contest

Soldier of Faith

Made the wings by warping, rotating and duplicating the rope source several times. Most work done by hand matching the colours, lightning, shadows etc. from other pictures.

For: white rope contest

Enhanced Nature

Please see full resolution and SBS for some details.

For: organic texture contest

Obrah Pitfrey

The beautiful love child of Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt.

For: gene splicing contest

The Journey

For: forest bridge contest

The Red Hour

For: stone face contest

Hi-Commander Sha-Zar

For: metallic texture contest

Power of Dreams

For: out of bounds contest

The Return of the SnailWhale

For: banana slug contest

Astral Flow(ers)

All derived from the source. See lengthy SBS of one page.

For: sailing boat contest

I think we saved him..

For: orange contest

The Four Seasons Castle

Please take a look at the hi-res, this probably doesn't make any sense whatsoever when looking the small preview. This started as a winter image and then I made the luscious summer image.. I couldn't decide which one was more nice and didn't want to submit 2 very similar entries, so I made 2 mo...

For: desert towers contest

The PXLeyes-City

All buildings derived from source image. Used 2 external sources from which I built the bg skyscrapers and trees and created the night sky. See hi-res for details.

For: sailing boat contest

The Crystal Lady of the Forest

See SBS and hi-res.

For: paper flowers contest

Which Way Home?

I do a lot of driving (night times) because of my work and I see animals where there aren't more than often, when driving very tired. When it's dark and rainy, it gets even worse. For a blink of an eye this kind of things I sometimes imagine and see. It's a sure sign for you to stop and take a na...

For: hallucinations contest

Expansion

Only one source for the leaf (I was lazy), the rest is derived from the original source. Tried a few new techniques and finished it with a lot of traditional hand work, check out SBS for details (and hi-res). I tried to achieve a watercolour painting like effect, but also saved 2 original pape...

For: paper flowers contest