Fantastic detail... truly wonderful.

Lovely work -- done with a mouse !!! I can only imagine what you could do with a tablet

very good work, nicely done.

Beautiful eyes !

Great eyes! I love Geisha type drawings, very nicely done.

how the hell did you do this with a mouse.... im in awe (jealousy stare at you) lmao

lol, lots of patience and a mild case of carpal tunnel!

Very nice work. Love details

good work on hair...nice eyes... gl author...

Awesome job on this , will be in the running for sure.

beautiful

This will make a great tutorial awesome work here

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius. Hats off Author. Can i borrow your mouse..hmmm...then hand too.....hmm then your brain....lol......then your creativity...omg....the list is running long...I will say etc.etc.etc Fantastic Author.

oh...wow! amazingly beautiful

Great entry...I love the detail...

Great! Love her big dreamy eyes!

I can relate when it comes to carpel tunnel.You truelty have tallent author.

thank you for all your wonderful comments! i really enjoyed working on this entry, and i am glad you like it. thank you!

Detailed work. All the best, sorry congrats

very nice entry

Congrats for your second place, Yahidith!

Congrats on your placement..... this is truely beautiful work.

Congrats, great work!

Congradulations!

Congrats! for 2nd place

congratulations author....

congrats

congrats!

congratulations!

Congrats!!

wow ,its very beautiful.love it

very nice image!! good luck

Fantastic!

I like the image in general despite the minimal use of the source pic, but transplanting a kid's head on an adult's body is kinda disproportionate...

thanks for the comments. cmyk46, sometimes is not the quantity, but the quality, that counts. for me a source image is a starting point to creating a story. about the chopping of the kid's head with the adult's body, i think the image can get away with it since it is portraying an elf....don't tell the others, but they don't exist....shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Nice work! Imaginative and cool.

ELVES DON'T EXIST?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?...

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Lovely composition The frog is so cute with his crown and I bet, he'll be a beautiful prince Good luck!

dreamland, like it a lot. Great mood.

Congrats for your second place

Congrats!

Congrats!

congratulations!

thank you!

Not really fair being so cute.... goob... hehehehe.. high HIGH marks from me.. high Res needed and space between the O and F would be a big help for readability (but the message and brilliance is clear LOL)... Oh yeah..you are still a goob

(you are such a gentle talent... continue the attitude... you are beautiful

EDIT: THE WORK IS A BIG WOO HOO... high res you can see the excellence great job

Cool

High res please!

Interesting idea - i just think you need to try and match your focal distance for the image. Some things are a lot more blurred than others, while some parts are quite sharp. GL.

wow its so crystal clear and beautiful.amazing job author

very creative and excellent.. well Golem has already told everything.. i jus need to echo.. hats off..

I love the image, good luck

Perfect idea and result! Looks amazing and lol at the humor.

Funny idea. In case you want a bit more interaction between the fishes and the mermaid, you can rotate the fishes a bit so that the heads are more towards the mermaid. But ok, maybe then the story will be way different than what you had in mind. Good luck!

Congrats for your second place!

thank you!

congrats!

Lose the wings, make the barbed wire thicker, connect one side of the snake to the other, and help us figure out where the gloved hand comes from...

im not going for realism here. i like the wings, barb wire comes in different gauges, last time i remember. the hand probably comes from the same place that tree is growing from...im not going for realism here. this is my interpretation of the title. " art for art's sake" thanks for your comment.

alot going on in this one....I see the lust...but alot going on! Nicely done!

I love the concept, but the snake cannot possibly coil like that without showing a tiny bit of the snake body below the armpit. Also the woman's arm isn't well blended with the rest of the image. And I don't understand the symbolism of the tree.

Fantastic pic, great ideas and great job, best of luck.

love this piece but also would love it if you put more time in refining it, not saying you didnt put enough time in it tho.. dont get me wrong the edge on his bracelet on the left hand (for the viewer) is too sharp and the arm from the girl seems too thin for the hand maybe also the contrast / brightness and possible the colors on that arm is off.. i would of liked the wings larger, the barb wire looks wrong (too thin maybe?) and the bottom part of the snake arround the arm needs a lil work too.. o.o; omg sounds like i dont like it at all .. but on the contrary i do like this piece but just would love to see things more blending in better.. love the high res btw

wow!simply marvelous.gr8 peice of art for learning.superb job author

Great image, maybe make the barbed wire a tad thicker? either way, fantastic creation!

EDIT: once again, i apologise for copying you, CMYK!

uhm interesting!!!!!!

like the idea and the overall result,great theme and creativity,maybe some light and shadow work would be nice,but it still rocks the way it is

Very nice idea, i think the wings look weird tho.

thanks for the comments and suggestions, will be tweaking the image sometime soon. the wings aren't supposed to look real... my sister used to have a pair she used to wear with her gothic outfits. about the tree, it would be a metaphor for an "erected trunk" if i am allowed to say that :P

stunning, love it!

ok, made the changes and added a link for new birds. i have to admit that it does look better, thanks for the suggestions!

Wonderful

Oh, I just love these kind of images! And you author, are an expert in making them! It's an amazing composition! Good luck

This is already a style. A good style. For the future you have to avoid danger of mannerism.You' re able to do that, congratulations.

Congrats for your second place!

congratulations!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

hey congrats for the second place.

Congrats!!!!!!! well done!!

Congrats!

amazing merging of sources... good Luck author

Nice stuff here...good feel to this, but your edges need a lot of attention...

thanks, i will fix the edges tomorrow... is been a long day, time to sleep

Really like this one! Agree with CMYK...also once you've cleaned up the edges...make sure to soften them a bit too. Don't let them be too sharp. Great job!

EDIT: Looks better...but I was thinking more just soften edges not necessarily the whole image.

cool nice blending

very very good

brilliant.... the kind of image i love well done.

It is a very well inspired job but I have to agree with CMYK46 about edges. Try bluring them, it would make your image so much better! Best of luck!

Great work...Love what you've done with this...Good Luck! (Just soften your edges a bit

thanks for the sugestions, cleaned up and blurred the image to soften it. it does have a better feel to it. much obliged!

very creative

wow. creepy

Great imagination.

A mixture of mind, feelings and talent. The result is a high-quality surrealism. Congratulations.

Fantastic.. well done!!

fab

Fantastic idea! I like the whole composition. Good luck!

Congrats! Well Done!

Congratulations for 2nd, excellent

Congrats for your second place!

congrats. intense image. good job

Congrats! A very good image and wonderful composition!

Congrats!

thank you y'all!

Congrats!

Congrats!!