Be careful with the edges of both the woman's cloak and the man in the background. They look really hard, such that you can tell the images were pasted. Also the image is very dark: some of the detail gets lost and it is somewhat oppressive to the eye. I think you would do better to make the image on average a little less dark, but to increase the contrast so that the darks are darker.

I think that the water was an especially subtle and creative use of the source image. This is a really wonderful piece of art!

You don't take up enough of the page with this composition, and the lights and darks seem to contrast too much with no gradient in between. Also the shadows are lacking.

Excellent work! The use of color is particularly fantastic; however, I feel like the shadows on the raspberries are somewhat lacking compared to the other fruits in the image.

The final product is fantastic, but the guide is extremely lacking. I'd really love to REALLY know how you made this beautiful piece of art.

This is fantastic, but it lacks shadows that would come from the light source around the edges of some of the bones.

The inside edges of the dinosaur (near the shadow) should be darker because they'd be shadowed also. Also the front of the first arm should case a shadow on the body.

Make sure the lighting of the squirrel matches the lighting of the rest of the picture, because I feel like the lighting doesn't quite match. Otherwise this is fantastic!

It's very funny but you didn't really do anything with the image whatsoever...

the shingles on the roof (patchwork filter?) don't follow the direction of the roof and it throws off the perspective; you should use a marquee to select that part of the image and make the shingles meet the slant of the roof; then cut the roof back to its original shape.

fantastic job, though his feet look flat due to the perspective.

This is fantastic but it is very grainy: unless that is intentional you may want to consider blurring the grainy parts a bit.

The lighting looks much better and the castle is no longer floating, so good job on both those points. The contrast, however, is very high around the towers but very low in the center part. Also the shadows aren't dark enough, and the castle itself isn't casting any shadows.

You need to make much more use of the source image

The haze should slightly fade the entire castle to make it look like it's far away.

The photo is blurry but the castle is really sharp; you may want to blur the castle, especially the middle a bit. Also it looks like some of the trees on the right should be overlapping the castle as they're out in front. Finally the hedges on the bottom of the castle make it look like it's floating but I'm not sure why.

I agree: refine the edges and either make the chair a little bigger or the woman a little smaller.

The trees in half the image are frozen and in half they are not.

The sunglasses are a nice touch.

You seem like you're afraid to use your darks and the image seems like it's faded as a result.

Oh well if it was intended to have the tower and moon at the same height that's fine, it just makes it look like the tower is unbelievably tall. If the middle of the moon was parallel to the tippy top of the tower it would look right. Sorry for misinterpreting your lack of inspiration.

How did you make the background?

This one is amazing! It's beautiful, meaningful, AND funny. Is there a SBS?

I think that you should make both of the eyes red; it would look more fierce and scary.

If this was a treasure chest that would be a classic interpretation of the Mimic! Awesome job!

Fantastic use of source images and amazing result!

I think you should make the 4 ribbon layers more transparent so you can see the zebra, or just put the zebra in front of the ribbon layers.

EDIT: nevermind I just stared at this for about 10 minutes and finally got it. Awesome job!

Why is there a maze in the background?

You should make the stripes more prominent.

This is the best named contest entry ever!

That looks much better now! Don't be afraid to use your darks; they really make the image work.

The edges are way too jagged and the entire castle is kind of blurry. Good concept though!

It's pretty good, but the perspective is skewed as either the moon should be higher or the tower should be from the standpoint of someone on the ground.. Also you shouldn't make images just for the sake of entering a contest.

It's fantastic! However, if it's a lighthouse you should probably put a light at the top. Also instead of making the tower become transparent you should make multiple cloud layers gaining opacity on top of it.

That elephant is mad small... also ice is definitely right. I'm 17 and kind of in the same boat as you; for example, I don't understand 75% of the things wazowski told you in his comment.

That monkey is gigantic, but you can remedy this by just saying in the image description that it's a Truck being attacked by a gigantic monkey

It's really really blurry which makes it irritating to look at.

You make very good use of your darks at the bottom of the image but the shadows at the top of the image aren't as dark. It makes the image look like it's fading out upwards.

This is pretty incredible, except I think that the top of the thing (to the left of the smokestack should be slightly blurred to go with the perspective of the piece. Otherwise this is absolutely fantastic!

This is extremely clever and well executed. Good job!

This nipple is in the wrong place and there's a sudden change between the neck and chest which looks like her head was just stuck onto the body. Also the boob should have a very slight concave curve coming down. Fantastic job though.

It looks more like the cigar is shoved up the alpaca's nose than in its mouth lol... Also 1 of those alpacas is cheating as both have an ace of spades and one has an ace of hearts, which is on the table.

The transition from Alpaca to Giraffe is really sudden. It looks more like you brutally killed the Alpaca and stuffed it with a giraffe than the giraffe is part of the alpacca. Also the transition between the leaves/moss and water is too sharp as the water is very unsaturated while the ground is very saturated color.

YOUCH! This looks much better now!

Good job, but the capsules and casing look blurry when the image is viewed in high res.

Awesome job; however, if the light is going through the colored glass it should cast colored light on the flower after it goes through said glass.

The person looks flat and the cut off top of the building completely throws off the perspective because the plane of the building going diagonally backwards. Great concept though!

This is awesome! Can you please add some words to the Step by Step so I know how you made it? Also I agree with ponti and I'd go further to say that it's because there's no shadow for that leg.

This image is confounding...

You can see where the top layer overlaps the bottom layer near the left legs. Also the shadows of the legs go in opposite directions, which makes no sense.