You are right ! You have my vote

very nice work ! i think the rose disturb a little bit.... i would prefer being focus on the clown

The guy on the right looks like me in the mornings.

Hi there, nice one.

Great job on preserving his skin texture.

Congrats!

Congrats Skyangel, your come back is appreciated!

My favorite

Congrats on this Skyangel.

Really terrific Congrats!

Congratulations.

Congrats Angel!!

Congrats, 4ths are not to bad. I like your entry.

Congrats

......oops forgot to mention the border. YEs I like it, it works to hold the image in place.

Oh dear oh dear, this is you and you got top notch and thumbs up. The way you make your manipulations look real is quite an achievement. I look for marginal telltale signs and you have none, it really is a well done image and I laughed out loud with this entry.

Nice shadow work.

awwwwwWWWWWwWeeeeeeeeeeeee! awe awe awesome!!!

Cowills. Part of my youth. This is so good.

Just plain good. definitely an "aawww"

3 different light sources, inconsistent shadows.

OOOOOPS, Getting old and repeating myself.

Congrats skyangel, well done

Congratulations...

Congratulations...

Congrats.

Congrats Angel well done

Big congrats Skyangel way to go!

Congrats! skyangel

Congrats on your win =]]

Good idea

The problem IMHO is the original source with the tattoo. That image is not really clear to start with. That art filter you used was no good idea IMHO it made it even more unclear with fading the edges inwards. You could have made the original image bigger and fade outwards, leaving the body which holds the tattoo more intact, maybe even expand on it by adding for instance an arm.
Please don't take what I'm saying too harsh, you're mentally still to attached to the image. This happens to all of us. Take another look at this image and the comments in 6 months or so and you'll see what I, and others, are saying and you might see what we mean

The blending is well done, no critique there just a

WOW...I just popped over to the Photoshopped Section and the imagination, the skill it takes to do this just blows me away...BUT HECK...you already know that...

Congrats on 3rd place!

Congrats Angel!!

I'm just saying that for me, artistically a similar homogeneity would have been stronger...but it is all about artistic license.

Hey there, I'm getting to know you better thanks to your posts. He's gorgeously sweet, easy to love. Too bad that the backgrounds are different on this entry.

Men being oiled? NAWTY NAWTY.. hehehe

Horse Piss? BWHAA HAAA HAAA HAAA...only in Australia ... I don't think we have Lemon Squash here in the States but I think it's like Sprite or 7-up, if it's sour it would be Squirt which is pretty potent. (Squirt was my Dad's Favorite drink when he was alive) We also have Fresca, a godawful diet drink that you can taste with the back of your head.

(still giggling over Horse Piss Beer.. WHOAH NELLIE!!!)

I agree. It would have been better if we could see the original tattoo coming to life but we can not see the tattoo

Author.. I'm going to hold my vote until I can see exactly how this is a tattoo.. it really needs to be "IN A SCENE" to make sense to me. Not a bad thing, but I think the image should be "coming out" of a chest/arm/leg. Not a dig.. just a little confusing to me at moment.

The image is very well done, but I'm not sure how it fits into the theme of the contest.. good luck

Ouch.. ouch.. ouch ouch ouch.... hehehe

I've been in that mood.. but usually some MiraLAX clears that up in a couple of days... I AM JUST KIDDING.. but I couldn't resist.. giggle snort..

Great job all round

Liquid Gold? I'm from Wisconsin and beer is a food group.. and I don't remember ever calling it Liquid Gold... "bat pee" has come up from time to time but that's usually left for Pabst (Okay Natural Light, Pabst isn't that bad, but it's been a while) hehehe.. great job... Now where are the peanuts and pretzels?

Congrats!

it looks a lot like you!

Congrats SkyAngel!

congratz!

Looks like you put a lot of work into this masterpiece. Hopefully it wins!

Show us a "SBS", please. Concerning the center pin especially.