Beautiful image, love the depth and use of Illustrator with this. Looks like a kind of Pandora's box - that swoosh near the bottom is cool!

Where did your step 3 come from?

Jadedink, I think that must be the hallucination part! lol, a riot, author!
and the sbs is like 'lather, rinse, repeat' your trademark style.

Very freaky, author. (freaky good.) what kind of videos do you watch??!!

Good one and nicely blended. Makes me want to go and make an adult beverage....

Congrats, Ernest! The little round parts with the other ones remind me of Tinker Toys. If houses can be called cute, you've managed it!

this is a beautiful tribute. nice work, author.

Cute! good work, very smooth.

very nice work, Big Daddy!

well done chop, author. love the cap and cloud reflection in the shades!

LOL, too funny! Truly a hallucination. You chose 4 perfect members to showcase. Now where's that sbs, dammit?!

OMG, the sbs is classic!! great copywriting and idea for that author. LOL @ the wing leaves.

I bet that rooster poop has something to do with the great shroom-power! love the ellipse technique with radial blur and colors in there. good chop, author!

congrats for 2nd place - parrot wanting whiskey!!!

Luckily, your brain was in gear for the most important part! Cool work, author. Maybe try it in photoshop?

nice feel to this final image, well put together, author.

Nice cavelike feel to this.

Nice line and shadow work, and the 'grafitti'.

This is great work, author! I love the whimsy of your style, and the perspective of the subject. It would make a wonderful drawing for a childrens' book.

LOL, love talking parrot jokes! good work, author.

great joke and great work, author!

Yikes - feed me, Seymore! Very cool work, author.

Absolutely WILD, author! incredible work once again.

Fantastic imagery, author. Love that warp tool! And the flood filter is ultra cool - I 'flooded' my house and sent it to relatives... heehee - faked 'em out! Great chop and sbs - too bad it has to come as a reaction to the actions of lowlife scumbags who apparently have swarmed this site.

Really nice style, author. Fantastic job on the body, I couldn't have done this! It's a detail, but great work on the spearhead, too.

I wish the monks were a tiny bit larger, they almost go unnoticed, but really nice blending of these elements. Cool little cottage you put this beneath.

Great work, and it does look quite real!

very nicely done!

I have heard this 'joke', good job illustrating it, tho the ship's water could be blended a bit better. You 'got it', tho, author!

better chop than the previous ones, but still no joke........

Very nice work, this style reminds me of some work I did many years ago - with real pens and watercolors.

Well deserved, Cornelia, congrats on another masterpiece!

beautiful work author - both pieces!

oooh, I hate when that happens. save often!
This is great, needs a lolcat expression.

Wonderfully eerie mood, nice work, author!

Congrats on The Thing - great work!

I agree about the water, but very nice work, great concept and coloring.

it's a heffalump! good chop, author.

OMG, lol - kiddyiztikt.

Too funny - great concept!

Good work on the book, setting has a nice mood.

On the contrary, this author 'gets it' - very nice job here! LOL

Who else knows about Vizcaya? I had my final exam (for a graduate course in scene design that I got permission to take in my senior year at UM) at Vizcaya, and while in the Concert Band, played some concerts on the grounds. Nice chop, it's humorous and a bit eerie at the same time. I like what you did with your photo of the mansion.

nice work. interesting light coming in on the right.

absolutely beautiful, very cool to use your photos as wall pictures.

Beautiful work, author! Yikes, you call that a simple interior? I call it amazing.

Nice work, author - yours has found a minestar! also, cool tutorial page, thanks!

omg, talk about adding insult to injury! great story with your photo, and good work.

Look it up spelled this way: 'bustle'. I had the chance to work at an ad agency whose office was in a renovated 3-story Victorian house. Our first Christmas party, the staff wore rented attire of the age - the ladies wore dresses with the bustles - believe me, using the ladies' room was a challenge! Serious fun, tho.

incredibly realistic looking! good work, author.

This is wildly clever, author! great job.