nice work -- another water layer on top with lowered opacity can be used to make the light appear to be over your sub

Thanks for the tip Alan2641! I'll play with it and resubmit. Cheers.

Thanks for the FAV Nishagandi!

OK Alan2641, I added another water layer on top, and played with the opacity and layer styles, but couldn't get it to look quite right, so I added a few beams with the pen tool, stroked with soft white, and gave them a blue-ish hue. I like it better, so thanks again for the tip!

Oh, this looks really really good! love it ♥

very nice entry!

nice work...good luck

hehehe.. lots of fun here

Very nice! I love the shapes and the colours. The eyes look slightly out of place though.

Nice work author.

nice

This Pepper and Mustard Gnome looks so cuddly

very cool work

simple & nice

Nice job adding the piercings to the baby, but the hair needs serious work.

I agree on the hair, but love the tatoo!! GL

Working on trying to fix the hair.

Tattoo and piercings are very well done (only a crazy mother could do that with her baby!...) Hair "movement" needs to follow shell directions, to look more convincent.

I agree with the others on hair and tattoos, but great idea, and nice overall work.

Made some adjustments to the hair, as best I could.

view in high resolution

the fantasy idea is good, but this brownish color is kinda washed out. i would like it better in color, the contrasts would be more obvious and the overall image would look more...magical

idk y but it looks better when view in high resolution so plz view in high resolution before vote thanks

This is much better. Just one other observation...the clouds-fog should be more transparent, IMO. But anyway, it's a good improvement! Good luck!

thyanks

Interesting, but a lot of bad edges.

thanks i just fixed it

You have to work on the edges of the left side of the image, those spikes of the shell. They are undefined. Also the color is a bit too dark and while the details of the image are interesting, it's pretty hard to see them now...

i agreed CMYK46 and Giulia but u got nice creativity..

nice creation. The shadow need to be reworked, and also can avoid a tight close-up like this. good luck

Much better, good job author!