Perfect!!!!

Good idea and well done result, the light direction is also pretty correct. Maaaaybe the hand could have done with a tiny bit softer edges, but that's a nitpick. Good luck!

excellent Tilt Shift

Thanks DanielaOwergoor, wazowski, Drivenslush for your compliments and well wishes...

@wazowski; yes I agree. I had the most trouble with the hand and monster. Barely met the deadline, so I had to stick with what I had.

@Drivenslush "Tilt shift" is 4 separate levels of blur, masked out over each other...I don't like the generic 'block' blur that is used by most.

cheers.

Great Work. I like your composition. Thanks for using my work also

Thanks bricef... very kind of you to comment.
Welcome to pxleyes... hope you are going to post some of your photos and enter some contests.

x3 imao, very nice!

Excellent work, nice color saturation for the "model effect". The soldiers still look like they're floating though, the ones aiming their rifles from up the hill, the soldiers on the level mown grass look solidly planted. One fix might be to add overlapping vegetation around their bases to give the illusion of touching the ground. Still, this one's my favourite.

Thanks for your comments lilybean2011, rsguetre, Nator... nice of you to take the time to type something.

@rsguetre... Yes, I agree. I had a real tough time trying to get the shadows on the marching doods and making them look grounded; I guess I was hoping the blur would help.

I don't know why I didn't think of cutting back the mask for grass on the others.

Cheers; I DO appreciate your critique

Congrats for the 1st place, galiano, really, really deserved!!

Thanks DO... appreciate your congrats.

Congrats, nice work

Thank you madammonty.

Congrats!!

cheers sr.

Hahaha... funny and very well done author.
A simple but effective work!
Good luck!

hehehe

Love the idea!..well done.

Great image, well done, good luck!

Thank you all for the compliments and well-wishes....

Thank you Nator.

Wow, it does have that old classic look - nice blending and concept, author!

Congrats for 2nd place, you did a great job! Fav.

Thanks DO... appreciate your congrats.

Congrats!!

cheers sr.

Very nice effect! great idea and perfect execution Perhaps a wet skin would have added to the effect but its allready great as it is. Awaiting a step by step to see how the painting was made.

Thanks for taking the time to comment/compliment Eladine; I appreciate it.

I didn't want to wet the skin of the tattoo part as I wanted to keep it graphic, and I figured Shamu had enough as is. Making a SBS now, but can't see anywhere how I upload it....?

cheers.

I hope its not closed to upload yet but normally it should be under the tab "My stuff" ---> My contest entries ---> and there should be an edit option..

Just checked quickly and as it is now in an entry I have somewhere its not showing either the edit button anymore... So im affraid you cant edit it anymore I think its closing automatically finally . o.o; well you could upload what you have, if you want to add it still, to imageshack.us ( image hosting where you dont need an account and thus the image links are anonymous) and post it in a comment. Though that is up to you.

Thanks Eladine..

Yep... couldn't see a "make SBS".. should be something that you can always add, me thinks.

I did upload it here:

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4775/stsbs112.jpg

cheers

Thnx much perhaps the step by steps should be always able to add I think indeed it will also be a good place to put your image if people worked some more on there work after suggestions.. ah well.. thnx for the steps it helped me loads maybe someday I can draw something cool like this too .

I like your thinking here, author! Cool job!