This looks good. Hope it stays.

Next time make a notepad file and paste into it all the links you're using.It's easier to manage.

I like it, except the liquefied... whatever at the bottom. With some patience you could give the hose a realistic form, that would make sense.

Good one!

Try some disolving white clipping layer on it's torso. If you're lucky it will also look like snow, lol.

That background is awesome, but you didn't say how you really made it- you only mentioned using wave- what about after?

Not bad.

Just beautiful.

This is really cool, you should fix it. I hope you know you can edit your entry up until Friday, from My Stuff My contest entries. CMYK told you what to do, and Mossy ordered you, so just do it man. If you don't it'll be removed when contest is closing.

That seagull is a pelican

The background could have been made of many crayons blurred out

Hey,just passing by and .. oh! almost forgot ...phen told me to say: cool

CMYK is right ! The light is coming from left, so the right side of the hole must be shadowed.
It's not that obvious, unless you can get your eyes off that naked chick's butty How d'you do it Bob, how???

DUDE!!! 48 FRIKIN' STEPS? you're a hero! I get that you want to make it a tutorial right away , but you have to improve it:
-place some shadow/ highlight layers ( use that original bunny to know where to paint), cause people & I think this is flat. Work ESP. around the right side of the HEAD, you must make sure it stands out.
- the edges suck, but the thing is you can' t make them smooth since this is a ROCK, not a sculpture.. right? so you must make the shape irregular like a natural stone.
- reflection is a bit forced.. see what DisMap gives you.
-And i don't get what the "cover it all in ivy" step, gets me? it looks pretty much the same without it. You can get a better stone effect with clouds & mezzotint like in that stone wall tutorial ( lunacore or smth).
Anyway keep it up, you're good with colors which is a big thing!

Lots of shadowless bunnies in this one...
Man if you need help with shadows & stuff send a PM to the commenters ( the ones before me) they will help you.

Lot's of bunnies in this one.

Good blend !
India it's already in Asia, but i guess you meant like India meets Japan or "my mom & the tiger" (lol).

To put more of India in this picture you could make the Kanji's fade into Hindi writing.

here's a source, if you care:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/413003

Good luck!

I'm glad that people like it, I don't No offence man, but there's just too much going on.
I get the skull breaking through her head skin, and the blood and the flames. But why do you need cigare smoke over the fire and 2 of the same rose on top?

Great blend, Author . You could put her butterfly hand lower - navel size -so it would seem more natural , and remove the second one. Just try and see if it looks better.

This is one good idea.

We usually take that skin make layers then Ctrl T Distort, warp until it looks right. Some of us even use liquify to put the texture in shape.
Then we make like 2 layers : one shadow, one highlights, create them as clipping and paint in them with black and white. One is overlayed the other is screened or we just play with the opacity of them.

Some use burn/ doge but that's a bit to permanent.
That reptile is so good!!! you could use it's spikes to make hair for your girl, a mohawk maybe

You should name it: " Hey! My eyes are over here, okay !?"

Awesomest entry!

Good work author.

You know the funniest thing? If no one else enters, you'll win 3rd place !!! I would congrat you right now

It's a start author, keep up working. when i started drawing i was immitating famous paintors or real photos for practice. In time you'll get better.

This is awesome!!

Nice entry, i totally like how you sketch.

Gee man, that's what i call effort! The details on those wings are impressive, at least!

I agree with Mos- this is cute, though. I'm sure it's the first step to something like this:
http://www.freewebs.com/vilemessiah/luis_royo_fallenangelI.jpg

Man the concept is good, it's funny, it's original which is already a lot ).

Draw some grass over her boots so that she blends better, and if Mossy wants depht, grow some BIG mushrooms in the background.

PS: I know it's a painting and it might not be as easy as in PS, so i won't judge if you make no changes.

Awesome entry, imo. Some reflections are above those wheels, check that out. The rest it's really cool.

I have a comment watch, that's why "me" returns.
I do not wish to pursue a polemic with you author, on this matter, maybe some people stare more than others, maybe some even less, we could do a poll (LOL). I'm sure you're good in what you do and i wish you goodluck in your future endeavors.

Dude, a square Mandala is the perfect thing to start from. But why do you limit yourself to this? Why not making a wall or a floor with something going on. I just think that the entry and the Mandala will be more appreciated if it would be in a context where something happens rather than standing alone.
Ps: If you get this the wrong way too and thumb me down, I swear I won't comment on abstracts ever again !!

Hey, if you like this pic : http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cmofMedusa04th1-300x300.jpg

you know what to do...
Put some reptile skin on her face to better blend the snakes, maybe make their bellies a diff. color and.. if you can find some stock with some aggressive snakes, man that would rock.

Awesome one! great touch with the "infinity painting" !

Well yeah Mossy, we all agree that boob is usually a good thing.

I appreciate your effort- posting 12 steps is not an easy thing ( at least for me), but when you make a Symmetrical abstract picture, people won't stare at it more than 5 seconds.
Hope you won't take this the wrong way.

Good, good, good & convincing

cool idea. repairing her skin would help.

Well i would suggest you do something about the background - find a jungle pic or something related to parrots, put her in a cage.., idk, you get the idea

As you can see there's a noisy texture on the photo , maybe you can copy it on her face ( like in the original), so that it seems a real photo.

It's Geisha, unless you misspelled on purpose

A red clothing instead of the white one, would balance the colors in the image, IMO.

how about making the snakes look like this: http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2008/07/coral-snake.jpg

It will add a color contrast to the image and maybe a Wow effect.

Nice idea, even nicer though it would be to make the face only by text. Create a compact wall text and clip the asian face to it.
Before that use some warp and displacement map on the text wall so that it follows the shape of her head. GL.

Try to make the skin look like it's on top of the skull by adding an edge to it, so that it has thickness. (Ctrl J the skin layer and move it up a bit, change it brightness- so that you can see it blend in, adjust with dodge/ burn).

I like it. You can clearly see a devils face bottom left and top right an abstractisation of a head with an aura. Chaos & order, perfection(sphere) vs imperfection, up/down - you have all kind of symbols which should be obvious even for a redneck.

Darn! good thing you entered it, G., I told you it's a top .

Bravo Mircea!

My respect author , by now many people would have given up, rendering a bag in the "google image" sense. But NO!!! you're bringing bigger guns !!!

"Wikipedia says that suitcase is bag" LMAO