A nice image, i like the textures. Good luck.

Beautiful image and good worl.

hehehehe..YOU ARE NAUGHTY AUTHOR...hehehe.. this is so borderline pornagraphic.. SPECTACULAR!!!!!!

great work

wow....you're an artist author...great...

Beautiful work, most impressive!

very nice work!! good luck!

nice

Great job...nice use of source. Beautiful image!

Author this is fantastic! Great depth in your chop. High marks for sure. LOL gollem

beautiful work

Very unique use of the image! Awesome!

WOW i like how the lips look like they're twirling outwards, very realistic

THUMPS UP

Great work!

Awesome image. Great work on the shading and higlights!

Great work, I really think you have a winner there. best of luck to you.

i like the colouring and lighting in this image. great image

don't get it!!!

Congrats, this really is lovely

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats...... ur # 1

you did a great job Razor. You did a lot better than I did with my flower

Congrats for your first place, Razor!

congatulations razor a fine job indeed

congrats Razor

congrat for your first place

Congrats

congrats!

Congrats! Way to go! Razor!

thanks everyone

Now this is setting the bar high!!!

Balloons again...yawn.
(Just to clarify, I gave you a good vote, but try to be more original).

what can i do...i addore hot air balloons....they hunt me in my artwork :P thx, CMYK46

nice....I feal like I'm in oz...

I would hang this On My Wall way Cool and Very Creative as well

this is soooooooooo good

VVVEEERRRYYY nice Author, very nice.

I love this - original style and execution of the prompt

Good one...!

i like these kids of images, they make no sense lol.... as for what you do when you feel artistic, i havent opened photoshop now in god knows how long. I have nooooo inspiration, ive always used lonley to help me, but damn it a man cmae along and he has ruined me lmao

Awesome!

Great surreal image!

Interesting image. Looks very good. Blending is excellent.

lovely image the ballooooons are great. the colour balance works well.

Congratulations for 2nd, great pic

Congrats for another great second place, Maria!

congrats

congrat for second place

Congrats

Congrats! Way to go! Really nice work!

More original than most...nice job. (SBS might be good too...).

Great job,lips curve is great but zipper dont have a border teeth,so u can really force her to shut up....

Nice job. Maybe not make the shadow of the zipper so neutral. Warm it up a bit...

i didnt think something like this was possible its great

nice... was there a source for zipper and teeth?

Excellent image.. very very nice.

Thanks people. Chuck, the source for the teeth is a skull [source 1]. The zipper I did by myself following a tutorial. I placed a link in the SPS for a tutorial on drawing a zipper - nice one.

i like you zipper better than the one on the tutorial

Spare my blushes Kayaklovergirl! It's not all that Thanks.

aww the skull would have been fricken awsome author lol, but hell this is pretty damn good anyway got my vote mate.

I like the manipulation of the lips, it's LOVELY, however, the zipper part needs to be incorporated a bit more, The zipper and the zipper endings don't match shading wise, and the ends on the left don't look like they would actually zip. If you added more shading on the top zipper it would be a bit better, as the lips themselves would be blocking the light that was hitting them.

original idea.gl

love it...but i think it's good if the pic more bright...good luck

good job agree with the left side on the zipper. Nice tut reference too

Very nice..

GREAT STUFFF

Nice work, good luck

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats for your third place, Divair!

congrats

congrat divair

Congrats

Congrats! Way to go!

Good idea, very erocative, i love it!

Lovely, gl

Very nice idea but the strips look a little fake to me

What idea, people?! Stitches'n'lips huh... now where have i seen it before?.. oooh riiiiight, IT'S BEEN DONE A ZILLION TIMES!!! ure lucky ive no vp author

Thanks Akassa. Stoli4naq...yes it's been done a zillion time, kind of like butterflies and faires I suppose. I feel with the the colors of the image, along with the symbolic "stitches", to be more representative of my feelings. Thanks for the input and be glad your freedom of speech has been heard.

I like the color. The eye of the needle needs some work (bottom seems to be transparent) and the SBS is incomplete.

Oh that must hurt...lol...nice

Ouch That Looks like it Hurts, Well done

What about some blood dripping? Soooo gothic... Good work

Nice job, author! The needle really accents this!

This is a stunning image. GL

oh god i hate these things.. i agree the needle adds an extra punch! really good

Ouch! Nice work author!

cool! gl

cool

i love the whole stitching look, something that i haven't tried myself yet, and you don't get better if you don't try anything for yourself author goodluck.

beautiful image.gl

love the contast of the lips and the blue background.

ouch! wouldn't like that to happen to me.

really great pic

Congrats

Nice job! Two top 7 placements!!!

very clever! I love the look of this, good luck!

Good idea...try to fix white edges on painter...
EDIT: Looks great now, good luck!

oh i like this, its like billboard one

sharpen him a bit

nicce job

Nice idea and result

i like it

good idea author, so far it is definately standing out in the group

This is awesome! Very creative!

Very creative idea!Well done!

Excellent idea...it would be even better if you could somehow make the unpainted areas...not shiny or less so.

Thank you very much to everyone for your very encouraging comments. Pixelkid, thank you for the suggestion, i tried decreasing the contrast of the unpainted side of the lips and i also used the burn tool on some of the highlights. I also tried using the Channel mixer to try and achieve the effect that i thought you were looking for, but in the end it really didn't look great. One area was just too washed out and didn't fit at all with the contrast of the rest of the image. Either way, thank you very much for the comment

very good idea and good work.gl

Funny concept nicely done.

Absolutely Extraordinary!

SIMPLE YET VERY EFECTIVE,

Really nice work, well executed. Good Luck!

Great idea...but with the ladder resting against the chin, the painter would be bending backwards to paint the lips. If the ladder was resting on the lips with a shad from the ladder that defined depth, it would be perfect. I like the high gloss lips that aren't yet painted. You've established a great neutral look in that area. Good Luck!

COOL BANANAS

Once again thank you all for your comments. Stowsk, i understand what you mean, but the reason that i didn't worry too much about that is because from the source, if you look at the shadow on the chin it becomes clear that the chin is protruding quite a bit, and seeing as how the chin can't be seen in the source, i thought that it could be the way it is.

Congrats