I think the dolphin knows what he"s doing, and if he would have felt discomfort, he would have retreated in the depths.

Nice shot!

Good job author, really convincing work.

I like the drawing style & the colors you used.

Nice blend.

Lol, this is cool & funny !
I like that wall a lot and how you blended so that texture won't repeat.

And i would like to take advantage of this opportunity to bash photoexpress where new members can't download for free: bash! bash! bash!.

Good luck author.

Really nice sketch and good build upon.
You should have merged some steps together, 44 is a lot! :O

Great blend, i like it. You should have cropped it, though, i hope you know you can edit entries up until Friday.

Not bad at all !

Pretty cool design.
In CG there's a concept named "density"= meaning the amount and quality of the texture applied in the image.
Graphic designer try to level the overall density so that their works won't look photoshop/collage.
The main density rupture in this entry is that everything besides the creature is blurry, and most we can see more details on the creature than on the foreground, even if they are both part of the focal point.
Some people use noise/fog brushes to create atmosphere and level the density.
I hope my comment is coherent enough and helps. Congrats on your awesome color palette!

I remember Meteora, the landscape is breathtaking.

Colored skin is sexy! I'm glad you decided to do that!
You could also try to color up her hair, make it blonde-ish so that it relates to the shield.
And if you have time, try to experiment with some grass, some sky, like she's sitting on a rock at the edge of a cliff. Maybe you can even find a nice castle stock and place it on a far hill in the background.
You can improve this a lot!

Yup, either change font or make it white ( maybe both).

Not bad! You should however blur the edges.
The easiest way is:
1. Ctrl click on the separate layer thumbnail to select it.
2. go to selection modify contract by 1 or 2 pxl depending on the image size.
3. Ctrl I to invert selection.
4. Use gaussion blur & from Edit you can fade the effect if you think it's too much.
IMO you would need to blur edges on all items in your composition so i hope you kept them on different layers.
Good luck.

The source is so easy to miss in this chop, i was ready to redflag it.
Why don't you crop it to make it more obvious ?

Very funny, you even added hair bits to the razor, now that's what i call "attention to details"!

LOL

A screen overlay for more brightness would improve this nice & funny chop. Good thinking.

Lovely mood, and great explanations in the SBS. You should check it out folks, there's stuff you can learn from there.

For better realism, you should eliminate the lines on the edges, and use burn/dodge to create different surfaces. In real life there are no lines, only lighted & shadowed planes.
Also work on the perspective. Find the horizon line and make those construction lines converge towards it.

Finding a stock with a hand for handling the sword, would improve the quality of your entry.
You could also think of a different background since cloud render is too obvious here. GL

Very well done, nice effort on the details!

Great work, awesome skills.

Fabulous mood, great robot construction!

Nice source find. However you need some adjustments:

1.You should work out a background. BG matters a lot in giving the context & mood of an entry.
2. You could use some color on her skin & hair - this will be fun and might give a "painting" feel to it.
3.An SBS would help some to appreciate your efforts more.
That's it for know, if you need more I'll be around.

You can edit your entries in My Stuff - My Contest Entries until the deadline.

Poate desenau mai prost decat permitea legea!

Felicitari pt primu loc )
Foarte amuzant cum au disparut competitorii tai

I don't really get what you're mad about:
- comments discouraging authors ?
-stock sites that want you to pay? ( like those bastards from photoexpress who no longer give free stocks to new users)
- this site's guidelines ?
- the grammar of the English language ? ( you should see French grammar!)

Anyways, good luck with your protest, i would however take all these issues one by one:
one poor entry for comments , one entry for stock and so on.

Nice concept & design.
You should check Arca's article about composition in the new PXL Magazine issue ( you'll find it on the forum).
Your vase+ flowers+ picture, cut the image in half- which is not that nice.
There are also vids on youtube about composition and those would help a lot too.

Awesome render!

You could have:
-worked on some background- maybe using the wood as a table or some stone.
- make it look like an old papyrus and use/create more complex shapes.

But remember, Always have a background , a context for your main piece ! I learned that the hard way.

Pretty cool design ! I look forward to the day when your entries won't be so easily recognizable, but still looking awesome.

Funny song, lmao!
When I try to visualize the video, i see something darker with red vines of lava , many broken chains, etc, etc. Oh, and WIND en masse !
I'm not sure what you originally visualized and the entry looks pretty positive here, anyways thx for sharing the song.

Splendid shot !

I get it, and I believe you author. If you think you might have problems with the mods ( hope not), redflag your own entry and give the link to your account on deviant saying these are my own brushes, DO NOT REMOVE ENTRY !!
That should work, and keep your anonymity as well.

Awesomely done, I really like your brushes.
Besides what Dan said, an SBS about your brushes would prove that they are made by you, cause right now we have only your word.

Maybe I'm wrong about the method , I can guess you made them out of thresholded water splash, so if you could post the original pics, that would help.

Lol, I'm glad you have the sense of humour., author.

Nice work, except the repetition of the birds flock ( you could delete some of them so they won't be identical), and the mask problems on the foreground.
The rest is good!

You have INTERNET, why would you need anything else !?
Use another layer with some gradient to cover the horizon. You could also blur the sand there, and make it look like the sand is blending into the sky.
Take for example this:
www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-picture/4d31871c335dc/The-Passage-of-Time.html

You know the horizon is there, but you can't see a straight separation line, which does not hurt the composition by making the image look split in half .

For those wondering, I think you have to use displacement map for the reflection, distort -ripple might work too, but whenever i used displace on water it looked marvelous.
Then you could try edit - fade displace if you want less of that effect.
Maybe author can help more.

Like gornats implied, that position is open to interpretation , people might ask if Stone is pawning or pounding Fire.
I wish i could help with a better stock source but all Ranum's wrestlers have the same issue.
In case you wanna change it, you could search for judo stock or try using this :
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/172104

Transform + rotate ? Ctrl T and mouse. Or distort.. hmm.

"ANYTHING related to cola" = pepsi-cola, so it's on theme. Beautiful one.

I can't talk for k56, but :

You could explore that opposition theme: with the guys looking at each other, only remove the grid and use (maybe) some ice- something like frozen water but which is transparent at some points so that we can recognize his reflection.
You could also use contrasting colors orange/blue and some fog in the horizon.
Damn, I miss photoshop!

Hey man, for realism you could add some wires in the back plan as well, and maybe you can find some reference for paint/blood drop on water cause i doubt it makes a star.

Maybe this helps, idk : www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-AX1G0SmY

There's a masking problem on the sky, I think a layer got out of place ( left side of the image right above where the wing finishes). It's pretty obvious actually even in low res.
Besides that, you have a nice entry with a good mood and a nice compositional triangle: sun in the clouds, man's butt (cause of warm color contrast + taboo ) and the white feather. You could even crop from the left, and it would still look fit.

Splendid work!

It a quite well done manipulation, but the glass has no thickness in the empty side. Take any google image as reference and you'll see what's missing:
http://raindeocampo.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/glass-half-full.jpg

I voted 100 cause it has only 400 views but it deserves a hell lot more, so i hope it wins!

How did you do that ?