Nice - but i feel that the hands are letting you down a bit. If they were really feathers and the fingers were bent like that the edges would not be defined, there would be feathers sticking out at all strange angles etc. Hard to fix - maybe look at some reference material of bantam feet or similar to get ideas??

The feathers around her eyes, nose and cheeks look good, it really feels like there's depth and that the feathers follow the shape of her face. I'm a bit less convinced by her under jaw (although that is more or less how the real owl's face looks like), that looks a little bit flat. In case you could use any other part of the feathers, would be nice. The hands look nice, though for some reason they look more like handgloves (maybe because the texture is too small). That doesnt have to be a problem though. Good luck!

Thats pretty cool!!! wouldnt ask her out though... lol! nice job author!!

cool

fantastic

very nice job, lose the feathers that are showing over the bracelet... thats rly the only comment i have for you.. she looks wild :P

Very nice!

Cool.

the brilliantly mixed textures shows a true dedication for realism.. it may be my eyes but I believe I can feel those hands.. and they are soft and warm and powerful.. hehehe.. I just love this

Thank you for all the great comments, everyone! I did a little work today just to clean up a few things..

Animmax, thank you for your suggestion. I did go through about 4 different sources before I ended up using the one I did just because of feather issues. In the end, it seemed like small, close feathers did a much better job of making her hands still look like hands and not just mounds of feathers. The hands took me about 4 times as long to do as the face did!

Waz, I did some work on the jaw and I think that it looks a little better. So, thanks!

Eladine, there weren't any feathers on the bracelets, but I can see how it can look that way since the bracelets are multicolored. I tried to brighten them up some to offset them a bit more from the feathers behind them. Hopefully that helped. Thank you for the keen observation.

Bet she stays real warm. Good luck!

ah i understand now author, that might be reflection on her bracelet fromt he surrounding actualy but its a very nice job

this is really neat

i recommend a different background, but this looks great!!

Edges need lots of work. Link 1 doesn't lead to snake texture...
EDIT: Link fixed, pic looks way better.

some smooge here and there in High Res but the simplicity and effect is BRILLIANT.. print version would be fine, but if you refine it more you will get higher votes... I LOVE IT!!!!!!

WONDERFUL CLEAN UP!!!!.. excellent work author.. much better for the contest now good job

Author I agree with cmyk. work on the edges, (blow it up and detail) also some left over that needs eraser and fix link 1. You will get a higher vote for sure good luck

Certainly not bad. Background can stay what it is, imo. As said above, the model does need some cleaning. Check especially her feet and head, which edges can be some softer. Good luck!

EDIT: good improvements, the bit darker background suits the snake girl

also, there are some artifacts obove her right hand, and some more further above..

mjranum sure got good stock... and love the way you transformed the original photo... cool

Allrighty then!! good job Author

very creative source and good execution!

Very well done, the blending is great and the body is great too. The coloring is very nice.

this is neat. and thank you for pre-warning about the nudity. scaly is the new sexy

Very well made.

thumbs up on the tech work.. good luck

Very Nice

Good idea, but very choppy around bottom of nose & mouth...better blending needed...and she only has scales on her face?

nice work,i think it could work better with scales on her neck and i wood like to see stp by stp good luck

I always forget about SBS....once I start one of these types of blending pieces, I'm already a good ways into it before I think..."I should have done an sbs"....basically, I blended different parts of the iguanas' faces onto the model using warping and a 10 opacity on the eraser

awesome

It's a good title, but the leopard skin is computer generated and may qualify as a previously manipulated image. Red flag yourself and ask the mods. I'm sure you can find real leopard skin somewhere.

hey man, yeah all I did was type animal skin @ sxc.. previously manipulated?..not for my advantage I just found animal skin, anyway..tnx for the heads ups.peace..

its not a bad chop but you lost a lot of details on the face

here is link to leopard fur http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=1162738 ,good luck

edit: ah and the teeth stile have fur spots

mariosilva georgeous find man appreciate it, tnx u so much..but whhhyyy loool haha so much work.. fur in the teeth? bit yellowy? I did dat on purpose didn't want it to be completely white..Ela I'll try nd see if I can do something about that..tnx.

yup i couldnt give you a good advice on that because most get lost in the dark parts of the leopart skin.. and thats just the skin..

great work!

Good luck!

why are the teeth glowing? great job

tnx, yeah more imperfect, I didn't want it to be perfect white.

Would he be tempted to eat himself? Haha! I like it. Your stripes are well placed, too. Please upload a high res (just click edit entry and check high resolution box) so I can judge it better.

Yes.. HIGH RES please.. he's so FLUFFY!!!

Done

Very nice but the hairs look a bit fake, maybe you can make it more real

There's a halo around him....fix that too. good ideea.

o.o your zebon is giving light o.o;

Mane is too desaturated...

Great work! I love the stripes. Suggestion: It looks like you used a brush for the mane coloring. As others stated, this makes it look desaturated. Also, it makes you lose color on the right side of the Zebon's face and cause loss of color due to the fuzzy edges around the mane.

So, as far as the loss of color, try using a layer mask with a combination of the smudge tool to make the edges of the mane less fuzzy and more confined to the hair. Then, to deal with the saturation issue, create a copy of the original mane, desaturate it, then put it on top of the brush layer, setting it to overlay or soft light. This will bring out the shadowing of the hair and give it more depth without losing the new, light color you have given it.

Good work and good luck, author!

Not bad. Musicj19 gives a good tip about the manes. I'd also remove the glow around the body with a mask and you may want to look again at the lion's nose. Good luck!

LOL, very funny!!! ) It reminds me of that saying : "you are what you eat" LOL

great job but you should have kept the mane the same color.