I will have to work on my inside of the shoe depth techniques . Honestly I tried. Had no idea this Chop could even be done. Started off cloning the beige part of his beard and was surprised it started looking sort of like a shoe. Then had no idea how to do the "buckle" part and was surprised that part worked out using his eyebrows and hair. Then for the side.. no idea how to do that, but with some cloning and warp it started to gain the proper shape. This was like a "mad scientist" Chop. Let's try a little of this, and a little of that and pretty soon it was Frankensteined together.

I appreciate your feedback CMYK46.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to make a shoe from Poseidon's beard. HAHA. Just kidding..

Mahalo brother George.

TY seestah Z.

Thanks BWR.

Thanks Rob.

Thanks Sylvie.

There are already reflections in the water. Can't you see them? It has the statue reflection and the starfish reflection and also the cloud reflection in the water. As for the shadows, they are following the same angle as the shadow on the knee and chin. See that knee shadow? It is heading slightly to the left. The chin shadow seems to be going straight down so I figured I needed to use both source shadows to make my own shadows. I made the ivy leaf and starfish shadows aim down and slightly left. The dark area you see above the leaves on the knee are cracks in the statue. Those areas are holes. The ivy is growing through those cracks.
Now if you still think the shadows are wrong, which way do you think they ought to go if not slightly down and to the left?

I moved the shadows 6 pixels more to the right and 3 pixels further down and made the reflection more visible for you.

Thanks for your help CMYK.

Thanks George

Thanks Sylvie.

Of course Ernest. Tune in to the sound waves and you will hear them calling you too.

Thanks Demi