Dramatic. Moving the figure to the left a tad in conformance with the Rule of Thirds might oomph the impact. I confess I personally don't get a 'spooky' aspect as required by the contest description. (The title is awkward. Something a bit more abstract like "The End of Music" might work better.)

i love it and i'm fell spooky

That's a really beautiful work as usual but Im afraid Source 1 is a pre-manipulated image. Im just warning you cause I don't want this great entry to get pulled out

Lamantine, Source 1 hasn't been pre-manipulated. I use it often in my images.

Dan, Thank you for the comment, i'll change the title to your very apt "The End of Music" but unfortunately because it is an older image, i don't have the .psd

Hazem, thank you for the comment and the favourite

This needs to be a scene from the next final fantasy!!! Great job.

SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!! I'm such a big fan!

i think it's awesome.

Lovely image ... perfect title and very expressive.

very nice!!

Good one.

Fantastic image,great mood,and cool colors...but author, what is surrealism here?

There's still plenty of beauty in our world Erathion, not hers.

Well blended!

nice work...gl

very well done!

I love this one, so cute... Poor rat, and now?

to be continued...

A bit too filter heavy, but good idea.

Good idea, but i agree with Bob, try removing the poster effects

Thanks for the advice guys. I've removed the poster effect and instead applied a Gaussian blur faded to darken. Let me know what you think.

well, it looks better but i still think it will look better without any filters (including gaussian blur) good luck !

this isn't really fair... I LOVE ANYTHING WITH A KITTY IN IT..hehehe.. very cute Idea author.. good luck

LOL......cute

nice..good luck

Cool idea!! gl

Wow!

Funny I really like how it looks at me Good job

Cutttttteeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

nice work.... good luck to you author....

gud work.. ............... all the best author.....

Great work author...good luck

Ha-ha-ha what a funny creature

cool job author

Nice idea....GL

Gate only looks half open...wonder how the tortoise managed to jump over it...3 different light sources.

Yeah I agree with cmyk, Nice image, it seems you put lots of time and work into it but the shadows dont ad up, also, one would imagine the turtle in the distance would be tiny, nice image apart from those annoying factors. Good luck author

I'm going blind (third up grade of glasses in the last six months) so I really don't see things the way others do (when I work in these colors it's all very blurry to me and I can't really make out things very well) but I do try and that's all I can do...

as to the shadow work... while they may make people crazy on the tech aspect, I did arrange the animals so that they were all on the same angles... as to the shading I really like to SEE the images I place so you'll see me highlight a lot of faces to see their features (especially the dragon)

As to the Tortoise.. he's about the size of rider lawn mower and he always comes up to me to be petted (actually he likes my Mother and she loves to pet him through the fence)
We get yelled at all the time (I have a year pass to the zoo) but they are vegetarian...

I'm pretty sure I won't win... (actually I'm sure of it now) but the picture was made for my Mother and that's what I'm most proud of...

Thank you very much Barnacle... always love the advice.. but in these colors I have a snowballs chance in hell trying to fix it... but it is cute though,,, smooches

Besides it's fun to see you know who pitch a fit.. it used to upset me now it just flies off my back.. like the Tortoise that has super powers and can fly

Hey, I am sorry to hear you have sight problems, It is difficult to believe after seeing your portfollio, congrats. If there is one thing i learned since being here it is that "shadows make an image", without them, nothing blends. If they are wrong, the image just doesn't feel right. I am sure you know this but I'll mention for newcomers benefit . The stats say you are the most talented artist here and I am not going to agrue with that, so congrats on that too . Now down to business.... The shadow from the Komodo is going a different direction to the tree's shadow, the shadow above the gate/door goes in a different direction too, without any obvious difference in light sources. The turtle may be a giant turtle, but in the distance, can he be as big as the; up-close sloth on the wall ?

Hey Geoffry the giraffe say's, big legged turtles make this "Rockin' World Go Round" lol the tone on the giraffe is alright by me.

Fixed the shadow on the lizard.. try to get to the tortoise tomorrow if I get time (the tortoise weighs about 700lbs and is about 3 1/2 feet off the ground and the otter (sloth) is only about 4 feet in length but I'll see if I get time... You were a great help Barnacle.. thank you for allowing me to borrow your eyes...) I'll try to work on it more if I have time

Don't let the komodo dragon go out, it's very dangerous!!!

You get surprising me ever!

fun image! too much burn and dodge used... none of the elements come together as one whole... the lizard appears to be floating off the ground slightly... GL!

Great Creativity, and I can definitely understand sight problems. I seem to have more and more of that myself. Good Luck to you on this creative usage of the source image.