Those are some great personal photo's BTW. Good way to combine them, into a children's book.

I can see some improvement around the mane, looking better.

Not bad at all. For the most part you've blended this well, with convincing results. You might want to tweak that blending around the horses head and mane. Maybe lighten the area around the hair some.

Very good work.

Great shot of that Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.

Looks pretty cool but you need to find a 3rd species.

Cool work, nice card.

Author, I like where you are headed with this. The composition shows promise aside from what I see as a disparity with the scale of the deer vs. that hut.
As JamesD has stated, there is a problem with the lighting. If you still have your work saved as a PSD ...in the unflattened mode, try flipping the B/G sky layer horizontally. That may correct the direction of the light enough too make this work.

You can edit this entry by going to the "MY Stuff" menu bar across the top of page, there you will see the drop down menu "my contest entries" that's the place which allows you to make changes or edits. I'll withhold my vote untill later. Good luck.

Okay then....whatever you say man.

It looks as if you have tweaked the shadow since my first observation, for the better I might say. At least you made some shadow...lol
I think what was/is bugging me is the color of the shadow. The shadow area where the wing joins the body on the right side at the rear just beneath the wing itself, could use some attention IMO. (noticeable in the high res)

I like the chop itself and your concept. You've done a commendable job blending the wings and tail, Good luck author.

Nice recovery on the shadow over the foot. Maybe it's me but there sure seems to be some noticeable differences in the man made shadows vs. the original. Especially on the white wall.

Pretty cool idea, not a bad job at all. If I could make one observation, that would be about the shadows of it's wings. Maybe lower their opacity slightly would help. Also you might add some wing shadow to the left foot of your frog.

Nice idea, perhaps you still have time too soften the masking of the fur around the face...(try a layer mask soft brush.) Maybe a fine smudge bush on the fur line at the face also.

Lookin' good!

Great picture.

Beautiful.

A real nice "puppet master"...great work.

Quite the puppet.

Nice work, well done.

Excellent work!

Good concept, nice removal of that tree and blending the hand.

The toned down Zebra's are an improvement.

Good idea and source finds. Some hoof prints would make this more convincing, along with some blending work at the point of their contact with the snow. Tweak on the Zebra's shading some too (check the brightness of highlights). Those are my idea's and suggestions, good luck.

Looking good, nice work.

Excellent concept!

I'm with nicecupoftea, very good job!

Nice job!

nice work

the increase in brightness has helped the lighting issue....

You know I'm lovin' the view here. That Santa's helper is definitely epic.

Your light and shadow work is amazing, the sense of depth you've created puts this one over the top.

Nice job on your monster. The bright shininess of the knight seems out of place with the overall lighting though.

nice work

Good job, congrats Cheryl!

Good one, great source finds.

Cool picture, nice work.

Nice work

Great work on that "apparatus," this looks great in high res. lol @elemare's comment....birth control pills would be too late.

Live hard die "young" and leave a good looking corpse, I always said. Great work!

Nice job on the hair. The fog and wood texture are well done too.

Super cool, keep 'em coming.

Great too see this one take 1st. The lighting on this one was especially well done.

Excellent work!

I agree with elemare, nice work all around. Good idea elemare has also, about a hint of sky showing through.

KUDO's my friend.

Good work! Yep, he's so ugly his mom prop's him up in a corner and feeds him with a slingshot.

Fantastic detail.