Congrats, beautiful work

congrats!!!!

It's a fantastic drawing, and demonstrates a lot of skill.. I voted on this entry quite a while ago, but after looking at your original sbs i was convinced that this was a real drawing. Great job.

A top 3 for sure

congr!!!!

Nice clean image! Good luck!

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source of inspiration?....

Wonderfully creative entry, I love it. GL to you!!

Author: I think you did a wonderful job with your drawing. I followed your SBS and found out the way you put your drawing together. You have the ability to create something that we would like to do. I am into digital drawing. The rules for this contest are kind of hard. Some recognize your work, some not, but even if you used an overlapped image over a new layer, and painted it. You, again, did a wonderful, realistic work. They tell you, that two or three SBS and the source image will be enough to give us the idea of what you did, well, I think you wrote a tutorial for us already. I have not seen a Digital drawing entry, with so many, detailed SBS. Even if you do not win this contest, be happy with your work. Thumbs up for you, and good luck!

Top 3 for sure, well done

IMO, you basically did a digital trace.

congrats

very talented

When viewed
It similar to the true image
Great work, I do not think that winning will be to one else because your painting ^^ ........GL

hmmmm... I don't know if I'm with you on this. when I look at it, it looks way to much like the photo. but in high res i can kinda see you brush strokes. Because it looks so much to the real photo, I think you could have just used the smudge tool and did some overlaying and stuff. The only reason that I can see it as painted is that you messed up the hand.

great work author............. its a magical work ........ all the best ...............

high vote from me, after an hour of comparing the two and looking at the sbs, i truely believe this WAS painted, you can surely see the differences!!! great job author!

Sorry, But not convinced that this is a painting from scratch, looks like a paint over to me.

Looks ok! Just one problem, it's like he has 6 fingers :P

INCREDIBLE!!! Ya know what? I'm not saying you did, but heck....even if you did put the picture as a layer and paint over it, it would be amazing work!!!!
I would have to say this is the best photoshop I have seen on here since I've been a member! I thought this was a real picture--even in that huge high resolution it looks like a real picture!

how did you create the noise without using the noise filter..? using brush settings?

@langstrum: the player is taking a ball on his face.. lol...
@author: nice job.. couldn't believe it to be a digital drawing..

Yes, you did the reproduction very well, but if it's too much similar to the reference, it's just the copy of the photo, and in this case, the computer can do better than you. As far as the reference is considered, you just painted the out-of-focus part, which is not the most important part of the image, and people will ask what this player is doing.

Absolutely incredible!! I don't know what else to say =) Best of Luck

WOw ! This was painted ?

I'm sorry author. I looked at the sbs, and I downloaded the images as I was dubious after comments and compared at high res. This was painted. It's more than obvious. Sorry you're having such a hard time! The great, is you did a beautiful reproduction of the photo, the downside is that as a piece of artwork on it's own, you did too good of a job reproducing a blurry photo, so as a stand alone art piece it kind of... isn't as great. Do you know what I mean?

nice SBS I wish you would put up a real big High Res so we could all enjoy this one.

EDIT: High Res is looking good

hahah it is claimed as drawing

You can't use an outside source in a digital drawing contest, except for reference only.

nice work!

luv the idea.... congrats...

innovative... congrats...

Great job author,really really good.Few minor observations,lighter part of the head needs a bit more shading,now when u watch high resolution looks a bit flat.And i don't understand step 10 in your SBS,how did u make grass,used some image,brushes?!?...Any how this is fabulous work and i wish u best of luck.

Congrats congrats!!!!!!!

Congrats! excellent week!!!!!

Congrats on 2nd place

CONGRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats! for 2nd

Congrats!

brilliant work ....... all the best to u ..........

congrats ...........

Congrats, well done

Tough call in this comp, all pics are fab.

Congratulations for 1st, fab

Congratulations for 2nd

Congratulations for 2nd

Congratulations for 2nd