now that is just weird -- great image

what an amazing looking slug.

Lol When I first glanced at this, I thought someone chopped a little coat on him

That is the strangest bug I have ever seen. I too thought he had a little green photoshopped coat, with VERY decorative spiked accents. Fantastic find, and a great photo, with excellent color and clarity!

What a fastinating critter.... from what I found on the net you would not want to take him home as a pet He's a saddleback caterpillar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddleback_caterpillar

OMG THIS IS COOL!!!!!

great capture, nice find

well done author

wow author...perfect painting...well done

Hi Glockman and erathion, thanks for your compliments on my work. They are very much appreciated.

Niceeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Congrats for your second place, Laulei!

congrats on second, well deserved

congrats!!

Very nice image, the fabric looks great! Maaaybe I miss something on the right side of the image (for the composition so that not everything happens on the left side), but that's a very minor comment. Well done! Good luck!

Impressive to be sure, nice talent showing here. My nitpick is I thought it was supposed to be a modernized version of the original. this is still close to the feel of the source just simplified and less details. do not get me wrong please your work is VERY good but if you had kept the pose and facial features ,background, flowers the same but painted her with a tattoo and a silk bra and panties it would have been more modern looking, and I like silk bras and panties on women

There's no doubt . the work in the Image is very good . but I agree with Glockman ! good luck

nice nice butt verry less drawing

This is a gorgeous update. My only complaint (actually, its more of a whine) is the lack of details in the SBS, mainly because I'd love to know how to do something like this myself. Its so beautiful.

Very good remake version, but I do agree with Waz about the composition. Also, I'm curious about one thing: how can you make the noise effect on the image if not using the filter? This noise is very uniform on each layer you made, but different from the girl to the background.

Thanks everyone for your comments. Yes, Lanstrum I did indeed use the noise filter to make this look more like an old painting. So many different guidelines, I just forgot. I have flagged my own entry, I wouldn't want to do anything unfair to others. *IDt8r, I should have been more detailed in my steps guide, but it probably would have ended up being around 100 steps or more! I'll try to PM you with more details. Thanks again to all that took the time to comment. *Glockman, I'll try to work on some silk panties, we'll see how it goes!

I do think that we can make an exception here because in fact this effect doesn't contribute much to the result, and it's just visible in the hi-res. This piece of art is deserved to stay. Also, thank you for introducing this painting, I don't know it, what a beautiful work.

Hi everyone, I got my warning just as I expected since I flagged my own entry. lol I revamped without the noise filter and believe me it took a little while. *Glockman I hope I have time to include those panties. I was working on them when I got re-directed! Thanks everyone and let me know your thoughts.

Update: Although I really hated to, I made the addition to stay on theme.

UPDATE Again: The panties are gone, I just didn't like them in my work. Thanks all!

Lovely image author, great skill to do this.

Really beatufil, extraordy work























real estate

Still looks great Author

Thank you for removing her panties. (Oh, man, that sounds weird. lol) With them, I thought it kind of looked like a fancy lingerie ad. This is much better.

Beautiful.I really liked this version than the panties one.Good luck.

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments. @IDt8r and ushurani, how funny about the panties. They just had to go no doubt about it.

Congrats on 2nd. If you have the time, maybe you could put together a tutorial? Please?

Congrats Laulei, hope to see you more in drawing contests

Congrats! for 2nd place. Another wonderful work

Congrats !!

Real pretty

Very beautiful! Just one thing: the should probably be a bit of shadow on the roof from the tree branches. Awesome job otherwise!

I like this. Can you tip the water trough so it goes down hill?

Awesome job !!!

very pretty use of source good luck author

great work

Good blend!
PS: Nice to see your work again, author...good luck!

Great work author...very well done...good luck

pretty realistic, the only part that needs fixing is the right side of the cabin where it blends with the forest. In high reso, you can see some greenish color over the cabin, GL!

Very realistic!

Very nice blend

great job, nice blending, good looking pic.

Nice composition......... Just like photographic shot......G/L Author.

My favorite so far.....Very Beautiful compilation........GL

Well done, congrats

Congrats for your second place, Laulei!

Congrats!

Congrats

Congrats! for 2nd place

congrats

Congrats, a very nice entry

congrats

Lovely work.............. Good imagination....... G/L Author.

very nice mood

wonderful work.. your SBS is EXHAUSTING in a very good way..

lovely work!

Very nice effect.

thieves!

real nice..i love it

great concept

On the one hand I like the clean look, on the other hand I'm not sure about the spikey waves. The gull looks very nice there, that's for sure. Good luck!

so pretty

good idea

very creative image i love the water effect. goodluck

Very Nice....Good Luck

I love it! It is like a painting!

Its pretty good

The water reminds me of feathers now, BUT- it's a really cool image and nicely composed with the addition of the birds.

Beautiful!

Good!!

very nice

congrats

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

Congrats! Way to go! Great entry!

Congratulations.

Congrats! very beautiful