Congrats again, well done

Congrats, nice work

congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats!! Very original use of the source!

Congrats!!

There's nothing wrong with using reference as a guide which is all I suggested, it is difficult to draw those chess pieces from memory and they are most certainly more complex than the male/female icons. It was your statement that you lacked the skills that prompted me to ask.Your SBS doesn't show any steps in the liquify/warp creation of the pieces,step 4 just shows a silhouette with elliptical ridges and step 5 the lines added for detail. If you did create them without reference I'd say you do have the skills to have made the figures work contrary to your statement. Creating the pieces with liquify and warp without a base drawing seems a lot more difficult than drawing them digitally which is a more logical approach to me.

Very creative use of source, well done!

I tend to agree with MossyB's comment, the source wasn't really needed to create this. I'm also curious about your response, you say you lack the skills to make the male/female source figures look 3D yet you say you created the chess pieces yourself with liquify and warp. The figures are a very simple form and much easier to add dimension to them than to create the complex shapes of chessmen from scratch. You don't show any source for the chessmen but they're all in correct perspective with complex details. Wonder how this is possible?

Very nice executed my friend, for sure my favorite!

Awww... so sad, and yet cute!
Great!

YEEEP!

LOL...good idea!

Try using the pen tool or lasso tool to avoid jagged edges on a selection.

Very creative and well executed, good luck!

very nice execution

HAHAHAHAHAHHA

The perspective of the play figures is not the same as the board, they should be leaning back a lil more

That looks cool, and sure Sparta is cool too. Very creative concept to bring up such idea - how about having a sign pointing downward to indicate Sparta's toilet is down there?

You can't really tell you used the contest source, since a simple black and white square made with the rectangular marquee would accomplish the same thing...

Now, if you made the chess pieces better resemble the male and female figures, THAT would be creative, but this really is too CBR to be of much relationship to the contest source...

Halarious!!

Halarious!!

hehehe

WONDERFUL and imaginative. Most creative entry so far. Well Done! SPARTA is GREAT!!!

really nice work, but I have seen this many times before

Just Great, wonderful!
"Spartans, what is your profession?"

well...then syllogistic conclusion is SPARTA IS GREAT GL. author.

this is really gr8......

Yes, it was a hard source to use.

I wish the source had been a little bit more recognisable.. your work is nice tho

You've got the sun rising in front of the mountains...

need to fix the masking problem at the base of the neck.. wonderful colors and lots of fun.. good luck

WHOOP.. I think you caught it yourself.. MUCH BETTER

Nice Congrats

LMAO! Great humor

I too was a little slow on the pick up.. LOL...

funny image.... This is one image where i dont want to know what was the driving thoughts behind your artistic creation :p

lmao, took me a minute... but then everything does these days ;p

Awesome

Good job, I think it would be better to have a little more glow.
But even so, the work is nice.

His face looks a bit too plain to me, great job.

very good job (and that's one enormous nether region LOL)

nice start -- think the glow should be more intense seems to lack depth

The identical heads on all the fireballs also seem unrealistic, especially given the variety of tails they create.

Good idea looks pretty good, I do sort of agree with Akassa about the edges on the fireballs though.

Why do they fireballs have a border? Makes them look a little fake to me. Great idea overall, good luck.

Blue/yellow not working so well together,,,

I like the EYES font

Colours aren't working...

Good!

Nice P & L !