Excellent job sir

thank you

author.. looking at your teacup/service platter design.. I think you should research MOORCROFT pottery.. you already got the feel for it and Ms. Bishop would be an inspiration to you (Not to mention if you learned about tubelining you'd probably have a blast with the idea.. when I sold the stuff I'd hold a vase in my hand for two hours, just marveling at the wonderful textures and feels (this piece reminds me of that)... Great job on this.. good luck!!!

wow, I feel so small looking at this great piece of art. The plates are my favorite = )

The service ware is very very well done , nice sharp and crisp, but the cake is a bit blurry in spots.very nice entry over all .

Thanks Glockman I tried to clean up the edges some (assuming that is what you were talking about )

Driven - that is some cool stuff, I'm going to play with those ideas some, it would be cool to see a dd drawing contest for vases soon

Thats why I stay away from contests that you computer skilled people like. But I am slowly getting better.

Glockman, I got my first copy of photoshop in January this year - only got it because I bought my laptop form a guy I worked with. you say skill, I say luck. I have been drawing with pen and ink since I was a kid, but I have no idea on painting or color theory - I just look and if what I draw looks right then I'm almost happy

Thank you for the comments though, some day I want to be really good at this

I made a mistake with the layer style. I did it the hard way the first time, then re-did it with layer styles the second - I added a step to the sbs that shows how I got the same results as layer style - using the magic wand tool, and a whole lot of patients...

Nice work, perspective is a bit out on the tray.

Yum, indeed! Looks like real

Whoa! This is jumping out of the picture onto my tastebuds. Nice work!

And congrats again. The swirls make me want to dip my finger in there and steal a taste.

Nice Job Congrats

Well done!

Fantastic drawing, though the background seems too blurred compared to viking imo.

Thanks ladies and gents -

Kid - how do you decide how blurry to make a pic like that - I'm still learning

Nice. Works well. As for the blurring it's really a judgment call. A little sharper background might be good since the drawing is fairly sharp and he's not that far from the wheel for it to lose focus.

I wasn't sure - that control 'f' is easy to use. thanks for the advise though, I'll see what I can do

Very nice entry and in such a short time, well done = )

love this, good luck!!!!

Nice Work...gl

Very very nice work author...gl

Nice work !

Great work!

Love what you have done here and great drawing on the viking! He is an ideal figure for the source image!!!

As for the blur you can create a (sort of) false depth-of-field by duplicating the background layer, blurring it (maybe even a bit more than you already have), then you can add a layer mask and use it to "paint" out the blurred image close to the figure allowing more of the blur to show the further away from it you get. (I hope that makes sense ... let me know if you can't figure out what I am saying and I can try and explain better)

The blend is excellent here. Very well done. Follow ARCA's suggestions about adding depth to this image, it will help to make an already great image even better!

I used 3 layers + masks lowered the opacity of the brush ...


Thanks for all nice word

Very Nice

Congrats!

Congrats!!

congratulation...

Excellent ilustration

Thank You

very very good work author...especially like body shading...best of luck

thank for the kind complements

Nice Job