The blending makes the sand look transparent & the bottle needs a shadow. Light source is in low right background, but the strong light on the woman is from the left.

Great work

Congrats!!

The edges of the mushrooms are also very ragged looking and poorly cut out in the stem area. The line along the top of the breast is particularly choppy looking and rough edged. All of the elements show a dark outline of 1-2 pixels, except for the top front of the woman's headdress, which shows a very disconcerting white edge on the face side, and a strange dark "blob" on the back. This visible extraction outline can be corrected if you contract your selection by 1 pixel, invert your selection, and then delete.

so pretty and sweet!!!

There should be shadows on the head from the headdress, and the edges of her skin are ragged. Yellow cast in foreground & background kills depth.

Congrats, wonderful work

Congrats!

Congrats!!

Congratulations on first place

Love this, author! My only nitpick would be that the blood dripping from her mouth would be darker. Maybe you could burn it a little. The flame and sparks for hair is wild!

Amazing effect and blending, great job.

looks like that lady gaga creature lol

Needs more sources (such as blood from mouth) or SBS. A blur at our right of the face, too. Good image otherwise.

hehehe, I'd love to go out with you but I've got to wash my hair.. LOLOL.. fun fun image

Great colors and composition. Good luck author!

Love the colors..nice entry GL!!..

I love the composition of this piece. Good luck author!

#like this! nice colours, great composition! mabye you should change some leafs to the painting style, to get a more harmonic image. but thats just me

this is beautiful artwork

This is a really nice composition. Kinda wish the edges were a little bit less sharp and a bit softer. Great job, author!

why the flowers are so blurry is beyond me. i mean i know why they are blurred, but there is no reason for it other than laziness. While i like the idea of your composition, and some of the other issues have already been touched on, i will mention the flowers. They are blurred because you made the first ones small to place onto the tree and did not duplicate yourself an original of the larger sized flowers. then when you resized the small flowers to big ones it made them blurry. always save an original layer you can go back to with your objects.

The hair looks like it took some time to do, and looks great. the rest of the images, not so much. In future works, pay attention to your masking and i always suggest using the pen tool as it works on mathematical formulas to create smooth precise lines, which will prevent your masked objects from getting sharp jagged edges. Very creative work! God luck!

The roots look to be in front of the body, making a very odd visual image, since she has no lower body, no left hand, and no rear end...
The forearm also appears to be overly thinned from the elbow down to the wrist.

very artistic!

that is so very cool

Transition between the roots & body is dubious. Where's her left hand? Daisies just look like an add-on to the image.

Interesting image...would be better if you got rid of the white outline on the head & shoulder.

very happy chop

There's an abrupt cutoff line on the light rays at left, white edges around the prow of the boat, the reflection of the guitar is at the wrong angle, and the water is just overlaid on the foreground.

good idea, the style of the image is not my taste, but thats personal i dont think the images go nice together but others might like this style

You could have found some barrels as sources anywhere. The rest is just the usual DA pics. Good luck on your collage.

well one can see the work you have dedicated to this.. But i see a small mistake.. the Perceptive of the girls legs ( Ankles) to the height of the rim of the barrel dosn't match pretty well... And the 2nd barrel behind looks as if its kept as an image on the background then as a single picture...

Anyways GL Author

Congratulations on third

Creative use of the source. A nice change up from the pack! It would be nice if you could possibly curl the paper to more of the contour of what the face would provide. Nice work, nonetheless!

Tower needs a shadow. Maybe you should add about a hundred more balloons...

The smoke brush would look more effective if the newspaper looked like it was burning somewhere. As is, there is no real source for the smoke.

Really good idea, beautiful colours! However the honey flowing over her shoulder looks like it's just sprayed on colour (blurry edges)

love the hair confusion

Sweet! Hehehe OK, bad joke but good entry!

May i suggest this tutorial to make ur bubble brush, http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/soapbubbles/index2.html cus its not alowed to use other peoples illustrations o.o;

Somehow this would make a great CD or album cover. It has just enough color and randomness to be modern and prevalent. Nice job! I love the all the random drippers in the hair.

Talking about a sticky situation...

I really like this one!

The line of the drip that runs across the nose doesn't conform to the contours of the face, and the light sources on the stems of the drippers are inconsistent. Also, as translucent as they are, the honey drips would have shadows.Good idea otherwise.

Beautiful image. Maybe some hard highlights on the arm to simulate honey better. Succes in continuare!

love surrel images.. pitty about the SBS missing.

No hi-res or SBS? Hmmm...