Excellent work darksideof. You've got too much free time on your hands.

What app did you use? Nice clean edges on the extractions (some time spent there, I'll bet). Good use of color variations as well, overall color balances very complimentary. Maybe a bit of feathering on the shadows could help.

Hate to try and use someone else's threat to get some response, but you guys seem to appreciate art. Perhaps a few could give me an opinion on my cover artwork down in the dim and dark recesses of the  music and muscians exchange section. Once again, I apologize for sticking this in someone else's thread, but I don;t think that many people look past the progressive threads.

Thanks for the link darksideof- responses at last!

Know what you mean about time and family. Had to give up the idea of being an artist when my kids came along. Got a haircut, got a shave, went back to school and got a BCompSc and now I deal in logic, not the anarchistic realms of creativity. But like you said- you can't give it up because you love it. And believe me, something withers inside if you don't allow the creative juices to flow every now and then.

I really like the hand/phone in your sig could have made a single work on its own. Bit like a Patrick Woodroffe statement on society.