Grapes

Thanks to minimonst100, for the pic of wood texture. The rest is PS. UPDATE: Added some veins for texture on the leaves, and reversed the gradient on the wood. (Thanks Drivenslush). Worked on the shadows.

For: metal globe contest

Parking garage.

Used the engine of my source bike and used the rest of it as reference to construct the bike out of the source image.

For: metal globe contest

Blenders big date

He was made completely from the door panels.

For: mixed manipulations 1 contest

Haiku Spring

Spring winds call Soon the dragonflies Thank you to Lucretia-stock and Alegion-stock! Sky overlay image is my own - see SBS Step 2. Permission for stock use SBS Step 8. Tried sugge

For: mixed manipulations 1 contest

Think outside the box

For: graffiti trunk contest

Poor Old Mech

Once he was state-of-the-art but now he's just left to rust all alone... Source only.

For: rusty machine contest

And tonight...will be my turn

From the Brothers Grimm. Entry all created in Photoshop. No external sources, references or brushes, just the default stuff that PS offers. See further in the SBS. Please watch in HiRes before vote, thank you.

For: fairy tales contest

Waiting

For: dodge and burn contest

dreams of asia

took me 5hrs+ with a mouse... drew the sketch from scratch, right on the canvas.

For: dodge and burn contest

Fantasy world

No outside source. see the high resolution.

For: pavilion contest

Cool Alien

Only the source image is used

For: cool toy contest

I 'm gonna sing my song

I used a 2B pencil, aquarelle pencils, a charcoal pencil, cotton sticks, a 0.3 pen and a brush pen.

For: humanized contest

Prayerful

Elements created from scratch, or from elements within the image (no outside sources).

For: spinning contest

Beer

I drew this from memory as I did not take any photos of beer. CS3 was used for this illustration.

For: fridge stuff contest

Fridge Fruit

What I've learned...red does not upload well. I resorted to using gaussian blur on the red parts and shrinking the image down to a height of 500 pixels, trying to make the upload look as well blended as it does on my home image. This is as good as its gonna get.

For: fridge stuff contest

Allure

Only source... I decided to put a black background, to make the piece stand out more... Pls view high res... Thanks

For: venice mask contest

Chakra

All painting... refer to SBS... ...and this was done with a mouse...yup..my hand is stiff (6hrs painting) Only basic brushes used :) "Hard mechanical/soft mechanical"

For: sosia mania contest

ice = white mice

For: cockney rhyming contest

destroyed Mask

For: venice mask contest

What do?

Thanks for any and all comments, no outside sources. Original used purely for reference and inspiriation. Please check High res.

For: angry mascot contest

another world

I used only source image and planet brush downloaded from Deviantart for creating this entry. Please see the SBS before voting and commenting, it's a request.

For: grass hopper contest

Owl

only the source pic and i recorded an action from a tutorial found here http://www.n-sane.net/effects/3d-spiral-abstract/index.php there were too many steps to list. lots of duplicating layers and flipping them around, adding color

For: wings contest

sitting on circle

All wood... i mean.. all source :)

For: brown bench contest

CHOOSE!

The unthinkable: to have to choose which of your children will live and which will die.

For: mother and child contest