Beautiful job. Good usage of the source image. I love all the concept of your work. Good luck!

Fantastic work ,GL

hehe.. has a bit of Manatee in him too LOL.. great job.. quite lovely

well done i like it

nice! good luck!

I love the small one, it looks very unique. Just a tiny suggestion, you might use less grainess level when you apply the grain filter to the whole image, in Hi-Res it's a bit too noisy. Good luck, author!

Great work! Love it! Love it a lot!!!

a slightly brighter color on the DuckBill's above surface part would make this perfect .
great entry

Whoa! Awesome...great water line idea. Creates a nice, new perspective.

Haha! Brilliant little creatures, i love how you created the water line, the whole style is very original. Nice work

wow, great!! GL!

Congrats on your win

Congrats!!

Congratulations!!! Have a cookie!

note: cookie is purely hypothetical.

Congrats...Stowsk!

nice work, cngrats

Congrats for 3rd, neat.

Congrats on your 4th place, great job

congratulation...

Fantastic ! Love the colors too.

I really like this, nice work

Like it a lot........Well done Author & Good Luck.

Creative concept and you certainly committed yourself to a lot of work. The hair/veil notion is very cool. I found the medium hi-res version [the one shrunk to fit on my screen] the most compelling. The small one here doesn't have quite enough detail to appreciate what you've done while the full hi-res reveals the misalignments, etc. that are understandable when you're doing something so intricate for negligible remuneration at best. The assymentric hole arrangement on the symmetrical face is a perfectly valid artistic choice. I do feel, however, that the holes on the far side of her nose should not be particularly visible.

She's gonna need major plastic surgery when she's older...great job, author!!!

Very imaginative and well executed entry...colors are great and idea with dots and stitches is top notch...well done author

Gads, this is very interesting - didn't realize til I viewed in hi-res, and you've got such patience! I'd love it if you included how you made the little holes and wires in your sbs, I'll wait to vote.

Edit: Thank you for that explanation, author - your steps 1 and 2 just look like black dots, so I guess after that you did further manipulation. And now I've voted - that partially explains your patience! Simple, but so effective. Holy moly, did that take a few days for all that 'surgery'?

Congrats on your win

Congrats!! Well done!!

Congrats for the second place

Congrats for the 4th place

Way to go! Well deserved...Stowsker!

Way to Go, Stowsk! I really liked this one!

congratulations...

cute ... very cool ... I loved !!
good luck!

very interesting and creative work...GL author

great job, best of luck

Very nice work author

great job

Obey the master..lol!! Must feel good to be the leader.. love the expression of critters

Excellent and very reminiscent of Sal.

excellent entry..

Very imaginative, love the motion, and smile on the 'leader'.

Fabulous...Legendary...

Fantastic piece of work author...very well done

Wow! Fabulous work!

Love what you have created here ... has a lightness to it and involves the viewer nicely.

Very cool image, though they remember the plankton sponge bob ... hehe ... I believe you will achieve more realism in their pets to work better sharpen and blur, there are many parts of it are blurred too big and too focused on the same plane. Good Luck!

I agree with everyone ... GREAT in high res ... love the ropes, love the whole creation!

hehehe.. just lovely!!! great job!!!

Very well done! Cute little critters most original use of the source!