Nice use of the source - love the sunbeams - perhaps just needs a little tweaking to get the woman to stand out (a bit of shading?).

Interesting entry, i like the colours, but the image doesn't feel complete, maybe try working on the shadows and highlights.

Love the concept!

nice background.

Congrats for your third place, Matteo

congrats

Congrats....

Thank you, hard to believe this got third...

Congratulations!

Good chop...maybe make the flag bigger, it's not obvious at first...and the way that dog's looking at him, he may need it!

I made the flag proportional with the squirrel size. My intention was to make a very subtle flag . And it's possible to see how I made the flag at the SBS

Good masking!

great chop, very clean, love it!

lunch time? great chop author.. nice finished image. GL

very nice job

source is not recognizable.

No, it's really not, which is why I made sure I included it in the sbs, as the background is the source.

im sorry but its cool you showing you lil creature but isnt the contest about chopping the zebra?

hmmm, ok, I have an idea

Peace out? But... But he's making the "Rock On" gesture!

Alot of people use textures for creating things that totally do not look like the source.... I think it's cute and I like it! Awesome!

Yeah, that what I see too, but I wasn't going to argue

Why is there a maze in the background?

Why is there a maze? Why is there a guy wearing zebra with a peace out dude shirt while dong the rock on sign (thanks for pointing that out vladimir735 lol) it is what it is, just fun to play...

i usually don't have a problem with (apparently) unrecognizable sources, but after careful examination (possibly after seeing the sbs) you should recognize parts of the source (the more the better), but what you made here (before editing) could be done using any (and i mean ANY) other source, and the final image would be 99.9% the same. that's why i pointed out that source is not recognizable. now (after editing) is better though.

cute!

Love this! Would have been even better if the peace sign was the gun sight! (Not too late to change...).

brilliant idea......thanks!

Ironic.

Nice idea, but imo I think you can make the wood look more like parts of the hand. Right now the wood still looks quite much like it's a straight texture without a real interaction between the shape of a thumb or wrist and how the wood would look like. Try to look more for thé perfect wood parts to make a thumb or finger, show more that the hands are really wooden (for example by making the edges of the hands more rough or just use the tree's edges, would be the easiest) and warp a bit more around the wrists to get a more round effect. Good luck!

i like this image a lot it could use some shading though i love it a lot!

Listen to Wazowski.