Me too. This dummy face is fascinating.

I like the mail box one the best out of your two versions.

Your work is marvellous, simply marvellous.

This beautiful decor needed a better bottle, a bottle with a character. As it is a simple disposable lab bottle, going over the top with this lagoon blue is fun.

Dear author, the clear water image looks the most realistic and is actually my favorite out of your three versions but as you say, everyone sees things differently and each person has their own preference. None of us can please everyone all the time.
Your work is excellent regardless of the color of the water.

You sir, are an idea thief. But then again great minds think alike so I ain't mad atcha.

Congrats on your win, you are some artist!

Congrats again BW

Congrats BW

Ahhhh marvelous , simply marvelous. Congrats.

Congrats, well done

Congratulations on the win. Superb work.

Well done. Great win!

Congratulations on 2nd place. Great work.

You did a good job of putting the water scene inside the bottle but I think the water color looks all wrong unless it has food coloring in it?
Google "water in a bottle on sand" and look at the photos in Google images. Notice how the color of the water in those reference bottles reflect the color of the sand and whatever else is behind it?
I know there are a few photoshop tutorials which show blue water in bottles on yellowish sand but in my opinion the colors still look wrong. However, it depends on whether you want realistic color reflections in the water or something more surreal and artistic. In the end, it's obviously your personal preference that matters. The chop is great. It's only the water color that annoys me personally.

My kinda photoshop creation....simple and strong with good blending. Top notch.

Good grief, this is top notch. Love the message, and the photoshop work is sublime. Thank you for describing the process, it is good for newbies to learn.

Very nice picture ! Good luck author

Nice (Or maybe not so nice...) critter!

Well done. The only thing I would get rid of is the highlight on the bottom lip. It would be in shadow with the arm coming out of the mouth.

First of all, the default setting on my lasso or pen tool is always set to a one pixel blur so I don't have sharp edges to mess with later. But all I'd do is select the outside of the face, expand 1 pixel, and then Select/modify/feather 1 pixel and clear.

All edges, but especially the face. The lighting looks consistent to me.

Also, nice lighting even if is coming from everywhere. lol

This is an interesting interpretation on the contest theme. I like where you are going with this.

In MHO i think you could fix the shadows where the hand makes contact with the letter and where the letter is entering that slot. Maybe the tone/density of the shadow around those points might help. Just seems a little flat at the afore mentioned places. Pretty cool though.

Nice work. Just put a 1 pixel blur on the sharp edges, and include a link for the hand.

Congrats BW, maybe we'll meet there some day!

Congrats BW, I'm glad you didn't add any guns in the end, I don't like guns

Nice job, congrats on first!

Looks good to me now.

I like it

Just to be clear, it's more the angle of the shadow. Look at the shadows of the windmill blades to see the light source.

Really nice, but check the woman's shadow! (Probably wouldn't be much of one with a sky like that...). Holding vote.

I like it

Excellent idea and very well done

Good work.

Congrats again BW

Congrats BW!

Congrats!

Congratulations...

...very nice job! ..and thanks for the SBS!

Very cute and creative, nicely done

It is because you left some ' sign (apostrophe). For some reason the description boxes refuse them... Try to write "king robe" instead of "king's robe"

The blur on the very foreground objects are not working for me. Perhaps a little too much.

Congrats BW

Congrats, really well done!

Congrats BWR, fabulous work

A very.... good job.... WOW!

LOL... thanks.

Please add the source for the tongue.

Nice work, well done!