Severed Ties - Photoshop Contest [10 entries]

Voodoo Bride Picture

Winning entry, with a score of:
64.8%
Contest goal:

A theme in which only those who are filled with sad emotions or hate have a chance. Use dark images and colors to express an extremely hard time or painful event that you've experienced in the past. Break ups, death, loss of a friendship,... Anything that made you feel miserable. Add text to your scene if necessary.


Required level: 5+ or higher.
Status: finished. Check out the winners below!
Suggested by: KhmerPoet1483

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Voodoo Bride - created by buzzy


Voodoo Bride
Favs: 4SBS: 10Hi-resRank: 1/10Score: 64.8% (43)51690 views

Divorces are hard but a troubled marriage is even harder! But it was for the best.

I have one of her eyes sewn shut because she never seemed to see the big picture. I have her mouth zipped shut because she never seemed to have any thing nice to say. And i was going to have her heart ripped out but i realized it was mine that was ripped out! So i stabbed her....

(5 years and 3378 days ago)

5 Sources:


The Sound of Sorrow - created by Akassa


The Sound of Sorrow
Favs: 2SBS: n/aHi-resRank: 2/10Score: 59.6% (36)31133 views

“Tears are words the heart can't express” - Losing a loved one always leaves behind a trail of pain and sorrow...

Credits and thanks to:
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com
http://falln-stock.deviantart.com


(5 years and 3379 days ago)

6 Sources:


I am Alone Now.. - created by hidra


I am Alone Now..
Favs: 0SBS: n/aHi-resRank: 3/10Score: 59.4% (30)25194 views

ので..私に残っている私は非常に悲しい
ときに私を...
私は本当にミス...
いつか戻って...
あなたを愛し... (5 years and 3378 days ago)

2 Sources:


demons that surround me - created by spygirl1978


demons that surround me
Favs: 0SBS: 22Hi-resRank: 4/10Score: 59.2% (24)15680 views

I grew up in a sexually, physically, and emotionally abusive environment. My childhood was stripped - thus the doll hanging from a noose, and I spent my nights in fear, feeling trapped - thus the girl in the cell....waiting for the monsters to come out of the closet. Oh, and the monsters are my father. The light and candles, because I would never sleep with the light out......And the chains, because I was emotionally bound, in a knot that didn't begin to loosen until recently. The girl, obviously, is me....I always thought I could close my eyes, and hide from everything deep inside myself. The spider coming out of the mouth symbolizes evil escaping man, as does the monster coming out of the screaming mouth; while the monster on the upper right is actually coming out of a wound, that looked phallic to me.....Trying to create an image to represent my experience, without seeming offensive, was a difficult task. So rather than express it in true perspective, i chose the abstract route. Anyway, it was MY experience, and this is how I envision it. I lightened the image, and apologize, as my monitor is terrible and I need to switch.....I'm going to remove the text and candles, but the poem below is what most emphasizes how I felt.....

Text by me: "Windowshades shelter me from dark things, like dark dreams; a canopy of well kept secrets, and should I scream out loud, he would send his demons down, one by one - to bring me to his lair, and keep me there, so that I cannot tell...
this side of heaven, from the darkest side of hell." MP 2003
***Note - my eyes (eyelids) were my windowshades****

By and by the way - despite having his issues, I don't hate my father today. I was taught, and it did ring true, that holding onto the anger is what holds us back. They asked me HOW I let go....but I don't know. It took time.

Sources Used:

"AttempteStock- white skirt 2" by ~AttempteStock at deviantart.com: http://attemptestock.deviantart.com/art/AttempteStock-white-skirt-2-22738768
"Amy1 by WakentheDead Stock" by wakenthedeadstock at deviantart.com: http://wakenthedeadstock.deviantart.com/art/Amy1-by-WakentheDead-Stock-84976108
"stock scream male 2" by =Chillinvillain at deviantart.com: http://chillinvillain.deviantart.com/art/stock-scream-male-2-138302599
"Hang Mans Noose" by !Superior-Stock at deviantart.com: http://superior-stock.deviantart.com/art/Hang-Mans-Noose-97217261
"Zentai - Y - 9" by *mjranum-stock at deviantart.com: http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Zentai-Y-9-104412245
"Zentai - Y - 10" by *mjranum-stock at deviantart.com: http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Zentai-Y-10-104412580
"Reaching Monster" by *dollieflesh-stock at deviantart.com: http://dollieflesh-stock.deviantart.com/art/Reaching-Monster-50585648
"Wound" by ~TooMuchFilth-stock at deviantart.com: http://toomuchfilth-stock.deviantart.com/art/Wound-25322743
"Old Broken Doll" by ~eviln8 at devianart.com: http://eviln8.deviantart.com/art/Old-Broken-Doll-2156979
"Skeletal Reaching Hand Prop" by `FantasyStock at devianart.com: http://fantasystock.deviantart.com/art/Skeletal-Reaching-Hand-Prop-28080613
"Hanging Light" stock by *Alegion-stock at deviantart.com: http://alegion-stock.deviantart.com/art/Hanging-Light-stock-121858967
"Christmas candle" by ~gurukitty at devianart.com: http://gurukitty.deviantart.com/art/Christmas-candle-42605033
"Spider" by ~PureStock at deviantart.com: http://purestock.deviantart.com/art/Spider-19932186
"gore zombie girl" by ~zombiehorror-stock at devianart.com: http://zombiehorror-stock.deviantart.com/art/gore-zombie-girl-64629305
"Zombie Beauty - 23" by *mjranum-stock at deviantart.com: http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Zombie-Beauty-23-74948244
"Chain brushes" by ~Crystall92 at devianart.com: http://crystall92.deviantart.com/art/Chain-brushes-65924253

(5 years and 3378 days ago)

10 Sources:


Moving On - created by jawshoewhah


Moving On
Favs: 0SBS: 7Hi-resRank: 5/10Score: 58.1% (19)14220 views

She turned me onto sushi, Radiohead and Photoshop. She was the longest relationship I ever had and "was" just as passionate about art as I am. But she lost her mojo and the Goddess of Passion, Desire and Imagination inside her has died. We are not in communication anymore she no longer is an artist anymore. She still enters my mind on a daily basis and influences me in some of my art, but I seriously just need to move on...

It's absolutely depressing as Hell to have to sift through all her billions of pix to find one I wanted to appear burning. Then it just seemed fitting to pick the last one I took of her...

All the sources used are of my own photography. (5 years and 3383 days ago)