lol... your so racist...

Lol, try making the little dude bigger and the rope, place it right at the end of the ankle...remember, the little dude is heavy GL

Well the trap is not exactly fitting the leg....

please read up on the words "Strange Fruit* and the Billie Holiday Song... this could lead to some very mixed signals (I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it... but the social connotations are deadly) A Noose in a Tree has the same feelings as a Swastika.. especialy in Southeast America (IMO) but good luck author

Edit: I knew you didn't create this with malice... the new title really does make it less controversial... good luck

Either the noose is enormous, or the man is tiny. Try to get them in proportion.

Next time chop when you're not so bored...

The wave is fine. The background is still a little plane. You got 4 hours left to fix it.

I like your idea, it's to theme but the background doesn't really match too well with the rest of your image.

towards the theme.. simple.. good

It's not bad and I like that you are thinking more towards the contest goal. IMO, a different background might help as well. GL!

Not a bad job, I'd turn the water around though - your yin should be curled in toward your yang

Congrats!

Congrats!

congratulation!!

Congrats for your placement, maXed. Well deserved

Congrats,

Congrats for your second place, Maxed!

Good clean chop and very convincing. GL

very nice

nice chop.................................gl

that looks really good

great. i love the idea. very striking

Very well done. Agree with CMYK about the shadows.

Seen a hundred of these, but it's not bad, just blur the shadows...

Very well done, Great job.

I think your background is fine as well but I can see where jaescoe21 was comming from. Probably more of a personal opinion he has but he did have a good point.

That's what I call nostalgia!

i can see that you had to flip parts of the wood. If you want to get the right effect of the wood you should overlap the too pieces and then use a soft brush to erase the edge so it blends in more . Nice work though

Haha clever use of the source.

The waterfall and image really needed attention. They could have been cropped better. There's is no way not to notice the bright light on the back of the kid and I think your best bet would have been to find another kid source.

Nice image. IMO you could remove the kid entirely.

nice work with the water,but the light on the back of the kid dont match the room

Looks like mist...

Kid is way too small compared to the doors...

love the blue water inside the glass. not to worry about the boat something you can think about for next time.

Nice to see you take on board feedback author... lovely entry....

The reflection still dips below the water surface.

Very nice...maybe to add some gradient on reflection...gl

neat.. GL

good idea.. but maybe u can sligtly decrease the opacity of the reflection?

Move the boat back so the reflection is on the surface of the water...

interesting use of source author, changes are better.

Looks better now. GL

this is rather similar to a tutorial on the web, if you used it be sure to credit it. I also agree with the comment above. Good luck!

The colouring in of the eyes and mouth needs a lot of cleaning up

Unique idea but the cave looks wierd.

Very nice job Author....poor whale though, just kidding

I love this composition....bring the world in the vilage....gl author

The river should be very deep for a whale to swim there All in all it's a good job

I don't think Paris is anywhere near a swamp, but it's not bad.