Great work..

Lovely work author! Best of luck!
I am not sure but the egg looks a little flat? Maybe if you work a little more on it it will look better? Just an opinion!

thumbs up to mossy... good luck author

Really better now! Good effort!

Hayato says:
"Ouch, MossyB, really ouch..."

That's exactly my sentiment! Since this is a competition, rather than a display website, entries need more attention to basics like lighting and composition and consistency...
Getting rid of the lighthouse and the stretched skeleton helped the composition a LOT, but the woman is still too brightly lit from the opposite side of your other main elements. Her leg could be a lighthouse by itself...

The rain looks much better, but the yellow smudgy strokes in the corners are distracting, and the totally desaturated image except for the king and the yellow smudges does not give the image an overall integrated feeling.

Better, though.

Ouch, MossyB, really ouch... but agreed with the corrections. Esp the fire... I don't know how to describe, a little yellowish white of true fire would make those fires realistic.

Agreed with the interesting concept. Looks so glooomy though. Good luck~!

This image is very inconsistent and poorly put together. The perspective and proportions of the skeleton are too stretched. The entire image looks like it is being projected onto a gauze curtain (is it supposed to be raining?) and the woman and lighthouse are totally out of place for the image - They are both lit from the left, while the skeleton in front is lit from above, the sea king is lit from the right top, and the ship is lit from the mid to lower right. The figure in the lower RH corner is backlit and almost impossible to clearly make out at all.

It's an interesting concept, but it needs a lot of clean up with more attention to detail.

Nice concept author, GL!

So cute! My husband and I have been to many doctors just this week, but none are so cute as this!!!! lol gl author

nice color matching

Fix the obvious hard edge at left of figure and blend the legs into the body better.

Nice idea with thinking outside the box with the source, author!

It is very cute.. maybe the mother elephants eye should be the same as the baby?

The light source is from the right. The light on the foreground elephant is from the left, so either flip it to match the lighting or make a highlight on its right side. Good color matching.

Woah! Nice one, man!

The face still is noticeably lighter, with the sun shining DOWN from behind her.
Her hair and shoulders show NO lighting on them at all, while you have a VERY strong shadow coming off of the bottom of her dress, although the dress shows no corresponding shading away from the sun light source.

I'm sorry, but whatever corrections you've made have not helped the inconsistencies between the contest source, the woman's body and dress, and the background you've selected...In competitions like this, such inconsistencies will probably have a negative effect on your score.

The lighting on the face is inconsistent with the background you are using. You might try selecting the face, and going to Image>Adjustments>Selective Color>Whites, and try bringing down the white tones in the face to better match the rest of the head and neck...

congrats on fourth place... lots of entries .... well done

Like the concept author. I do have one question. Wouldn't the candle cast a shadow the other way with the marker causing a double shadow effect and light up the forward shadow some? Best of luck.

Beautiful

Beautiful entry author ..GL!!

The smoke needs a bit of work, it looks like a Nike "swoosh" logo pasted on top of your entry, but otherwise, this is great.

I think all the sheep entries should have the black sheep wearing some sort of hat. It definitely perks him up in every one!

smoking in no smoking zone....lol

real colors......

the black sheep looks good

good theme

nice.............

nice...........

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The moon illuminates more than the sky.
You have the ground so dark that nothing can be seen, which is not consistent with a full moon, especially one that large in the sky...
The objects should be showing some back lighting, as well as slight cast shadows on the ground from the moonlight, which should be shining on the ground as well as the objects on top of the ground.

nice work...........