Congrats dear Matteo!

Congrats my friend for you victory

Congrats Bob !

Congrats Ressiv!!!

Congratulations, Jaskier!!

I know that sky . Great work !!

Great and clever design, with an appropriate effect! I agree with other comments about the reflection, but I think the problem is the direction of the motion blur is a bit wrong, it should be 90 degree, and because the light comes from the top, small shadow area is needed. That's the first place to me, so far!

Thank you for chopping my source nicely . We'll miss you, enjoy your life

Congrats again, seems like that's your first entry with horror theme ?

Congrats Chad!!

Congrats Anastasia, cuteness at its best!!!
PS: I like your tags

So, you're Anatole . Have heard people talking about you and saw your works in the Hall of Fame. That's nice that you come back with this impressive entry. Encore!

Congrats Mario ^^

oh, well, that's predictable and I was right when I decided to give up joining this contest. I had the same idea as you but I didn't start when you submitted your work. Congratulations, you deserve that!

Wow is right

Unique idea and very nice construction, but the sharpness of the objects are not uniform, which can be clearly seen in the Hi-Res. Maybe the main problem is the source of the mountain, the resolution is quite low. Also, since the bridge was place on the dark background (the mountain), the white strokes are still visible, makes the bridge looks cut and paste. One more thing is the white ship looks too bright (the cloud density around it is too high, so this region should be darker). Just my feeling, this looks like a cloud factory, not really a city (or maybe you just show a part of the city ). All in all, in this resolution, your image is almost perfect and still gets high mark from me

So happy that finally you make it, a well deserved first place, congrats!!

I didn't recognize that's from my source lol. The first sound in my mind when i saw that is Disco! Great !

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.

Very good, looks like a movie scene

Congrats!!

Congrats Ria

Congrats!

Since the other comments cover all of my opinion, I go directly to a nitpick: I think you should modify the smoke a bit, so 2 of them look different (we can't see smokes with the same shape twice, right?). You got one of the highest votes I've placed here , best of luck to you!

Almost flawless! Aside from the head, the use of the grass brush is very nice. Very convincing result. I just have a suggestion to slightly blur the edge beyond the ear, it's too sharp (especially when you create a shallow DOF like that). High score for sure

You're really good at technical illustration like that one, it became your unique style. Good luck to you!

Dear artist, I missed the chance to compete with you in this contest. Prepare to add one more first place into your portfolio

ditto itsmymoment

Hi hi!!!!

... but the overall image and idea are damn good!!! I really like the geisha source you found, looks gorgeous here.

Bravo! I like mechanic things like that

Totally agree with sophia . Also, author used Waz's face and painted over, can be considered as chopping.

So that's a Pegasus . I can distinguish Pegasus and Unicorn, but you didn't mention this horse is Pegasus or Unicorn, so I had that comment. My comment wasn't really a suggestion, I just like to see the horn . without it, your horse is still gorgeous .

Addition of the horn would be a nice touch

Great blending and looks funny too ^^. I have a suggestion that you can improve the blending if you blend a bit of the jet on the skin of the pig and make hairs on the jet. Good luck to you!!!

Seems like now you really like doing the realistic stuff , this time it's very nice again. The only thing is somehow the white button right to the hand looks a bit curved. Can you play piano? I love it too ^^

Great technique and excellent image! How about making the edge of the foot and the branch less sharp a bit, in Hi-res they look like the paper pieces.
EDIT: looks nice now

Very nice to see your work again, really surrealistic, great!!

Great result of your unique style . Very colorful and interesting . The only problem in your images is the character looks quite flat, maybe working a bit more on the shadow and the light can help. Best of luck to you ^^.
EDIT: Warning, the SBS contains uncensored mature image, shouldn't let children see them

Congrats Anoop !

Congrats !

What a wonderful world ^^

Congratulations !!

Really nice, someone should pay you for that to make the cover

Damn funny and great chop, absolutely deserve this place. Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Ria ^^!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations

Congratulations!