maybe a winner....great

What a cool idea! The heat from the bulb provides the lift! Great image, very fun. I'd love to see the sky full of these!

Oh thanks!!! and Mossy great idea, I might mess around with putting some smaller ones in the background when I have some time

Perfect!...

That would be cool, but I meant I'd love to see the "Real World" sky full of these!
If you add more to your image, just don't "cookie cutter" use the same one, okay? Better to leave it be than detract with clones...

~M

Wonderful work! This just yelled "fav fav" to me!

very steam punk... woo hoo... excellent work!

Stunning work

absolutely awesomme ...

Very fun and creative steampunk approach to this contest.

I don't get the mixture of taut cables (clearly supporting the gondola hanging from the balloons) and flaccid cables between the balloons and the gondola. And the small balloon's connection point to the gondola is very odd.

The horizon line of the balloon bottoms is down (albeit different horizon lines for each balloon) while that of the gondola is up.

Notwithstanding the title on source 4, I find the ship more wreck than steampunk.

Fantastic work author, my fav !

Wonderful work!

Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments its like getting a little present each time I see I have a new one

amazing work..!!

wow this is great author gl

good work man

Great job,instant fav.Good luck author

great image!

Impressive work, very well done.

Congratulations on a very well deserved win!

Congrats Robert awesome work

Cingrantulations beauitiful work

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Congrats!!

Congrats, great mood!

interesting work...gl

Distort - spherize for shape, clipping layer with 30 opacity black & white for shades&light, would make the balloons look 3d.

thanks greymval.. im learning more from you.. thanks a lot.

I like the technique used here = )

Perfect!

Awesome!

simple but very effective....

Nice work, good luck!

awesome choice for this contest

The cat is precious

Congrats, well done

Cheers for all your comments

Congrats!!

congratulation...

congratulation well done

Congrats!

Congrats on your win

Strings should be tight if they're holding up 2 boys and a bike...

It is cartoonish and not reality so maybe the clouds are actually holding them up!

Cute idea... nice job with the balloons! g/l

Really sweet!

who would like me to make the strings straight? If I get enough comments stating so, I will do it.

This is a really sweet image! I too think it would have been better with straight strings, though.

I was going to make the strings straight but I ran out of time.

Its fantasy CMYK....strings can be loose.....nice entry

Beautiful colors and a whole lot of fun.. good luck author.. very smiley

I'm quite impressed with the stardust though. Good luck.

Nice use of source... a very vibrant piece.

you are correct about the pixie. you could have drawn on her as a new layer to sharpen her.

I tried drawing on the pixie. Especially her eyes. Wasn't working the way I'd like.