OH how AMAZING!!! It is wonderful. Such an image...I am touched by it, really touched. Wonderful. Amazed. Thank you for sharing this. ~Nad

I just was browsing back thru and noticed that no one had added more comments to your image. (hope i'm allowed to add another) I just wanted to say that its refreshing to see art that means something - has emotion and impact - & i just wanted to encourage you - it's really really good!

An exelent image, to say the least! You really give the characters "weight", making then very real. The wet look you attemped is exelent as well. Not very noticable at first, but still amazing.

Very powerful image, excellent render :)

Very moving...

this is really sad and good. a heartfelt scene...

Looking good! Another recommendation -- nothing beats the real world for looking real. Jump in the shower, then get out and, without drying off, pose similarly and look in the mirror, waiting several minutes, analysing every detail and watching as the water runs off and dries off to see where it site and where it dries more quickly. If you can do it in sunlight or under a sun lamp, all the better. I have another recommendation, but it's hard to describe textually, so I'll give you a little exercise that will work better anyway. In Photoshop make a new image of ay 300x300 pixels. Make it two layers -- the bottom layer filled with a light medium grey and the top transparent. Draw a vertical line on the top layer and turn on a bevel/emboss effect. Now switch to the smudge tool and smear the top of the line up. Notice what the bevel/emboss effect does as the edge of the line becomes fuzzy. Realising what that does may help some, too (since in the pic I see a few places where the water seems a little 'weightless' as if it were a rivulet of slime, instead of having most of the 'weight' in the bottom of it). BTW, on the picture itself (rather than technique) -- I like what I feel it saying, because I agree. There was this thing on the news about the little girl who got kidnapped and recovered in Philly (it's extra big news here, 'cause this is Philly) -- the mother was going off on how 'God does answer prayers' and I felt really irritated. Do you know how many Advo flyers and milk cartons I have seen with 'Have you seen me's of little kids that are missing and if they are ever found, they will be found in shallow graves on the outskirts of national parks or chained at the bottom of lakes or burnt to a crisp in the boot of a torched car? And this broad has the nerve to take the credit AWAY from her daughter who was clever enough to find a way to escape and call for help and give it to some nonexistent deity, who, by the statistics, obviously cares less than random chance?! Or all those people who survived 9/11 that gave 'God' the credit for their not dying... that disgusted me. If 'God' was looking out for people, those terrorists would have never been able to pull what they did. This same god, Iod Heh Vav Heh, a glorified Semitic hill god, was the SAME DEITY on whose beliefs Muslim was founded, and thus the SAME GOD in whose names everyone else died in the attacks. But people still think it's appropriate to thank him for saving their sorry superstitious arses when he took out so many others. It's disgusting.

Very realistic and emotional

This looks great !