Lookin' good! I'd try to give the cracks more of a sense of depth, and warp them to the contours of the ear. GL author.

awww...now now...don't count me down on the lack of sbs just yet. i'll be posting it soon enough, i just didn't have it with me today, and no internet at home makes it quite hard to keep up. :P SO.. SBS will be coming.

and ... thanks on the compliments. i wasn't sure about that texture on the face, kept playing with it to try and get it to blend better. :P

If the texture is on the man on the right is on a separate layer, try completely desaturating it, since i assume the layer is set to soft light, the skin might look a bit more effective. To make the cracks seems stronger, maybe even try duplicating the texture.

OH..dang. added the SBS.
and... changed it all up a bit.
should probably credit the tut for the displacement mapping, because without it i'd have been totally lost...
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/texture-map/
if you don't know how to do those sorts of things, check it out. way easy..and entirely helpful.

Wow...great revision!

Intense emotion in this! Sweet!

Nice use of the source! GL!

Hey!!! it's You!!

Great idea author...flaming head fits perfectly with his facial expression...gl

very nice idea and cool execution....good luck author

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU.

you know what would have been really cool with this one?? to change the color of the "dirt" to a blueish tone, and then use an overlay so it looked like it was all ice. but..definitely an original idea

THX WILL LOOK AT IT.

I sure dig this kind of creepy.

Thx gotmeamuse.

Extremely minimal use of source. Most of this seems to be 3D renders. You didn't even need the source to make this.

thanks for the comment.., jawshoewhah...

u r greatly right.., but the rule is.., the entry must use the image source...

not just 3d image.., even photo / 2d image can be make without the need of the image source like theme photoshop contest.., am me right..?.., me am sorry if me am wrong...

about minimal use of the image source.., consider the use of very minimal use of the source at the great beautiful image of the 2nd winner of the Cross photoshop contest...

Fantastic piece author....GL

very nice work great imagination

Beautiful!!! Very well done!!!

Interesting work....gl