Gads, this is very interesting - didn't realize til I viewed in hi-res, and you've got such patience! I'd love it if you included how you made the little holes and wires in your sbs, I'll wait to vote.

Edit: Thank you for that explanation, author - your steps 1 and 2 just look like black dots, so I guess after that you did further manipulation. And now I've voted - that partially explains your patience! Simple, but so effective. Holy moly, did that take a few days for all that 'surgery'?

Thanks Pearlie The holes were created by using a small brush with a large spacing and just brushing a line to the contours of the face. Then ripple and smudge them. The wires were just brushed from hole to hole, textured and smudged. Yes it took patience, and thank you for checking out the HiRes.

Very imaginative and well executed entry...colors are great and idea with dots and stitches is top notch...well done author

She's gonna need major plastic surgery when she's older...great job, author!!!

Creative concept and you certainly committed yourself to a lot of work. The hair/veil notion is very cool. I found the medium hi-res version [the one shrunk to fit on my screen] the most compelling. The small one here doesn't have quite enough detail to appreciate what you've done while the full hi-res reveals the misalignments, etc. that are understandable when you're doing something so intricate for negligible remuneration at best. The assymentric hole arrangement on the symmetrical face is a perfectly valid artistic choice. I do feel, however, that the holes on the far side of her nose should not be particularly visible.

Like it a lot........Well done Author & Good Luck.

I really like this, nice work

Fantastic ! Love the colors too.

congratulation...

Congrats on your 4th place, great job

Congrats for 3rd, neat.

nice work, cngrats

Congrats...Stowsk!

Congratulations!!! Have a cookie!

note: cookie is purely hypothetical.

Congrats!!

Congrats on your win