thats just phenomenal. beautiful and elegant, and you cant even tell its from a veggie close up. you are extremely talented author! great job!

How do you do it? Stunning work.

Fabulous work and a very beautiful image, I hate to say it but if I did not looked at your S.B.S I would say that the source had not been used because its not visible at all,for me the source needs to be clearly visible in the final result.......Sorry

Ponti, I do it with probably 30-40 hours of work, but I obviously love doing photoshopping and am so glad when viewers enjoy my work.

Well it's worth it.. you're an inspiration to me.. and i can;t help but stare at everything you do for hours without stopping.

SHOW OFF!!! LUV IT LUV IT LUV IT.. keep up the great work!!!

beautiful work author - both pieces!

Wonderful it's a poor word to describe it!

I like the painting style you did

Wow! This is fantastic!

Congratulations

Thanks to you all for your votes!

Always a wonderful work of art! Congratulations!...

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats Artgirl, beautiful work

Congrats for 1st

Congrats

Good colours, good depth and great job on the jellyfish and fish fins... The image look great, author. But you really need to organise your layers palatte :-P

ponti55, you are right, I am very lazy for organizing, renaming and grouping my layers. Will keep your friendly advice in mind Thanks

great work.. it looks gud...
i feel this is the best image in this contest
but
fish needs some shdows near wings
other wise

Thanks mounirupa for advice, added shadow to fish.

Maybe a bit more refraction in the water as light rays change when traveling throw different mediums air to water/ air to glass you will get a change in the direction of light and some distortion. Will add more realism to the image. plus the shadow on the underside of the fish should run its full length

author i think once check the image.. all r gud but near starting of wings u just burned the fish than it look like this is not artificial...
and
bottom of water where lit ends fish had reflection... so give shadow
and
once again check the shadows in the whole image....

Good one.

I recognize this style, very nice job

congrats again!

Congrats again, Nasir!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats..............

Beautiful entry, Nasir,
I feel honored to be a winner with you and Ponti.

Beautiful

Great work author.

Very interesting idea!

Very clean work

Very good. Can you please also post an sbs?

Another nice piece of work, I know this is nitpicking but what dose it look like if you flip the leafs?
To me it looks as tho the rain is going in one direction an the leafs are being blown in the opposite direction......

s author.. Warlock rit..
i agree with him

Thank you all for your comments! Warlock i tried flipping the parsley leaves horizontally but unfortunately there were a few layers linked to the parsley so it's almost impossible to flip without ruining the image. However, i do agree with you, and it's unfortunate that i didn;t think of that sooner.

Nice surrealism, just a small nitpicking ;- )
Right now, the snow is kinda flat against the radish (almost perfectly lined up with the surface of the radish). Since snow has dimension and it's not flat, I would draw a bit more snow on top, so it doesn't look like it's a piece of white paper on top on the radish

and congrats again Matteo!

Congratulations, Matteo! You are one of my inspirations...

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats for 3rd

Congrats

Congratulations, Ponti,
Beautiful entry, and am thrilled to be a winner along with you and Nasirkhan.

Neet idea is some shadow problems. as far as I am seeing most of the guys head should be in the shadow of the sucker thing, also would remove the glare off the right side of his head (his right that is). last thing I see is the girls right hand and arm has no shadows looks off. would all fit much better if that was fixed..

Thanks Ironcow, removed the glare from the side of his head...looks better.

No prob at all. lookin good. G/L.

This is very impressive and creepy!...
I prefer the eyes looking at different sides, but it's up to you. GL!

Very clean work! The eyes were blended really well, and i like the idea. Erikuri also makes a good suggestion, the brain suckers may look a bit creepier if they were looking in different directions.

Overall a great job

Edit: Always an answer for everything author

Boy, you guys sure don't seem to know much about brain suckers! First, the ones with the big black eyes are males, the ones with the cat looking eyes are females. Brain suckers are phototropic, which means they all look toward the light. Anybody who has watched B movies about brain eating monsters would know this.

Great imagination and man that's creepy....good job

Oh, Gosh... they have gender!?...
Movies with brain eaters... hmmm... only zombie movies, sorry!

The holes where the tentacles goes into the head is actually pretty real, so gl!

lol! i know nothing about brain suckers but great chop!

Great job author! However, on the foot that touches the ground by the reflection there is a hard edge, maybe you can liquify it into a more rounded shape... good luck! Oh... and clean your scanner.

thanks Ponti.. fixed

Good fix author! Good luck

striking Image author Impressive creativity as always!

This is so wrong!!! lol...
Nice colours

Vibrant colors