There are lots of bricks pattern out there. Search on imageafter.com for example - cause now it looks a bit fake.
Also give depht to the window, so that it won t look like paper.
Here's an awesome tutorial about making a stone wall - use it to make your bricks real, before time runs out. http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut028.htm
Best of luck!

Nice idea, but the bars are to far from each other, so this little fella can go out when ever he want...

nice idea but i think that instead of red bricks it should have been white blocks... like real jails becuase the red bricks to me kind of represent stereotypical school house!! haha but the idea is great . good job

Hey, I like this. Very nice job here. Congrats

very nice! I love the tones in this and the lighting. Works really well!!!

Thanks for your comments.....

props are well chosen and set author...
but i feel, the night makes the objects more
desaturated and moves towards blueshish tones...

that is if you are tending towards reality....

Thanks closedeyes, you are right, I thought of using blue tones at the beginning, but then, I decided to leave it as it is. It is late for changes, but I will do something similar in the future, using your advise.

nice result author...best of luck

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...

Having fun!
Very nice compo, I like it!

Hahahahaha...look at the kiddo,she's facial expression is priceless...best of luck author

Lol this looks like it could be a clip from a kids TV program, nice image GL

I had the same idea but you beat me into it and you did a great job - love it

lovely

very sweet .good luck

I want to move in! Is it vacant ... lovely work and a wonderful creation!

nice placement

Nice scenery, nice blend and good composition! A very good entry! And welcome back

Simply beautifull !

very very interesting work and great blend...best of luck author

Sweet little country house

Congrats!

Congrats

Congrats!!!

Congrats for your third place!

Congrats!!