niiiiiiiiiiiiice idea , gr8 job

very nice eye!

Sweet job author!!

Perfect! I love the iris!

Love the simplicity of the composition...very nice...love the detail in the eye too.

This could make a very nice poster!

Nice work, Good luck.

The vase was created very nicely. Good luck!

nice!

great piece of work

I cannot go back now and add an sbs so i hope my explanation here will be sufficient.

I used the pen tool to cut out the top of the mosaic picture to create the grassy leaves. I then duplicated the layers and transformed them to make some smaller and some larger to give a fuller effect. I then played with the hue/saturation and the colour balance to make them green and to make each of the layers a slighlty different shade of green. I then used beve, and emboss to give them some depth and some inner shadow. in order to create the top of the vase i used one of these layers and removed the top leaves, just leaving the bottom portion and desaturated it to make it black and whit

To make the main vase body (peacock body) I used the pen tool to cut out the central part of the mosaic. I originally made this blue, then used the paint bucket tool to fill some of the small circles with blue. I then decided i prefered to have it in black and white and desaturated it to match the top of the vase. I then used the paint bucket tool to fill some of the areas on the face with white and make it stand out. I then used the eraser to make the beak area slim and less rounded, more beak like.

For the dark leaves behind the lillies i used the pen tool to cut out the wing like parts on the mosaic (central, left and right on the original) I cut one out then flipped it to make the left and right leaves. I then duplicated it and cut it in half, duplicated then merged the 2 layers to make an even lookig leaf for the center. I then used hue/saturation and colour balance to make them green.

For the lillies i enlarged one of the green leaves, warped them to give them a wrap around effect. I then drew in the yellow bits using the brush tool. I created the stems using the brush tool, then lowered the opacity to merge the lilly and the stem. I used bevel and emboss and outer shadow if i remember correctly. After making two lillies i duplicated them flipped them and added them to the 2 other areas. I duplicated a single lilly to add an extra one to the central bunch. Lastly i added a simple central gradient background to the image.

its a pity you can't add sbs, being them tha rules.... goodluck anyway.

Congrats for your second place!

congrats for the 2nd

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats

Congrats!!

congratulation scampie...

for for petes sake, forget the purpose of the contest, how can this not win just by that adorable puppy dog face alone? How so cute!

The masking on the left eye needs some work to remove the color from outside the eye

Thanks alan. Ive edited the eye hope its ok now

So beautiful.....

ohhhhh how cute

i like cats better than dogs...still, niiice eyes

Aaaww... these eyes! Absolutely lovely. Good color choice! Good luck!

FREAKY!! Aliens and dogs getting busy!! GL.

Now that is a creepy animal!

lol, cute dog, good luck

this is smile? ouuu... then it is uglyugly!!! good luck!

heheh very good.. absense of pupil always causes the creeps.. hehehe

Hmmm - i am getting a broken link for the source??

The link works for me if i click it. If anyone else is having trouble with the source link could you let me know please and i will go back and sort it somehow.

I love it. LOL So creepy, yet cute.

LOl fuuny idea very nice good luck!

coooool

Really funny and skeery....and mmmm...that's a French Bulldog..not a pug...lol

Lol, i was gonna refer to it as rat but pug seemed politer! Didnt want to offend anyone. Thanks for pointing it out marmee54

Even if the smile wasn't ugly, I think I'd freak...

scary in a cute way

this is so funny ! the teeth could have been better

looks like the man in black remake

can i buy one of these please, thats hell cute ;p

Well ive become quite attatched to him olivia, otherwise i may have let u have him. As soon as i find him a girlfriend ill get a puppy sent ur direction

yeah! the teeth need wome work, but i love this dog! and thanks for the new stocklink

Oh can you send me a puppy, too? I'd really like to have one Good luck!

great idea

Ugh! THat's a scary pet, no no go away

Not bad. Perhaps I miss the ehhmmm..."lines between the corners of the mouth and nose" (sorry, my english sucks, hopefully you get what I mean), right now it's a bit too solid there. If you add that, then just subtle, like in the source image. Ow, and maybe her lower lip is a bit too cartoony. Good luck!