This is sweet! Nice magical feeling very well done! Excellent SBS as well!

very beautiful

Wonderful result, and an excellent use of the source! And even though the concept of a mushroom house is a little dated, this entry looks amazing.

From your SBS it looks like you spent a lot of time on the mushroom guy you created, but he's not too visible in the final image, i suggest brightening that up a little to make him pop out some more.

Great job

Thanks Spaceranger; nishagandhi... (thanks for the fave by the way!! :p)

Ponti55, initially I wanted the mushroom man to be there as something you 'just' see coming into the light, overlooking his house ('coming home')... but... after the jpeg save... he did look a little darker than the psd... so I lightly erased the vignette to boost him up a little... it's only very slight but anymore and ill have to illuminate the foreground more which I'm trying not to do.... however I'm sure you don't want to read the explanation... just to know that I took your advice LOL!!!!...

Good suggestion ponti55, slight change really makes a nice enhancement. Author your explanation is most helpful in understanding your thoughts in creating this fine work.

great job

I love the lighting on this one. Guides the eyes. :0

Very cute, but the mushroom house is too angled on the hill.

MossyB: Subsidence... (it's a fantasy world... normal perceptions don't exist... ...)

Wonderful work and an excellent sbs, well done

It's really lovely!!

good experimantation on lighting... i wonder how the mushroom man will fit into tht hut, esp with his big hat.. well done author...

@pearlie: haha.. tht could be the solution pearlie...

Cool little 'shroom house! I like that crooked chimney, very Tim Burton/storybook looking. Very nice work, author. How the man fits in there? Why, I'll bet he eats a little bit of the 'shroom and "gets small"........

Love the whole image ... your Mushroom guy is wonderful and I noticed him and got the whole feeling of coming home. The atmosphere you have created with a few mushrooms and some magical lighting is ... well, magical! Extremely excellent work!

Cute work.

Lovely trolls' abode

Congrats for your third place, James!

congrats

Congrats!! Really love it!

congrats

Congrats James...

Nice image. How have you used the source here?

Step 7 on, -- the head and neck plus the legs and talons. distorted to fit.

got it! nicely done

Very nice, good luck author

OH WOW! You should turn this into a cartoon!

Love the sense of movement and flow to the dragon.

Fantastic creation...Dragon body is top notch but the wings have to be the same color or similar color as body...now they pop up to much from the body but at the same time they are to integrated with the background...Just an idea author

um... my comment was a compliment... I was meaning it's an excellent shot that I can see a cartoon made out of this character! Geeze...

Very nice image best of luck

Great fantasy image, interesting the the wing closest is a bit transparent, tho. Very nice painting and integration of the images.

ouch.... i actually feel for that poor creature having someone rip his eye like that


nice work author, very creative

very interesting...u can see his surprise and his pain...good work author

gud one.. i wud say very creative one..
need sm fine adjustment
distorted handzz r cool but they got way to blurred
other than that really coool concept n
gud job


gl author

Now, I know, the true, why he did not came home.... good luck and great imagination author.

Poor little thing, what a sad fate

Nice mood you created. welldone author.

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Wonderful work, and all the comments above! I love the color too...

very very creative...great mood and shapes...best of luck

wow... this is tooo good... ethereal... luv it.. the bluish mystic ambiance (probably the negative filter) is cool... nice concept

Love the surreal quality ... this really brings out the depth of the original image beautifully!

I like the light bulbs.. they are pretty cool

think i sahll call him 'Albert'

very cute

He looks better with a background, but you need to post the source link. Good luck!

done thanks for the tips - im new xx

Author, please read this to find usable sources: http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/
You can't use wallpapers. Try this: http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=4938093

Yep, author; besides of being a wallpaper, it's copyrighted. You can search images on Flickr
(Creative Commons), RGBStock, Sxc.hu, Morguefile, Photoxpress...

im really sorry - im new

good work. can make it like a chilly powder packaging design.

OK THIS IS DEFFO NOT COPYRIGHT NOW!!!! but thx 4 ur input lol :P

haha like the idea!!!!

Please update this entry instead of upload a new one. Go to "My stuff > My contest entries" and click on the edit entry button to make the necessary changes.

Very nice creature. But background is definitely spoiling your work. I would suggest drawing a cartoonish background.

ok i changed the BG whaddya think now??

looks great author... Good Luck (saw all the transitions.. I like this one best

Much much better

thank you!!