Cheers Jonny, there were a few that I had in my mind to be in the running to win from the WIP thread, yours was amongst them.

Looking forward to seeing this issue, am going to have to wait until it's out on the stands though. Congratulations in advance to the winner!!

Nickillus: mark-jephcott: Kaz, thank you, of course I'll post piccies. The wedding pictures should be interesting as it is fancy dress. I'm going in regency costume complete with white wig and tricorn hat, we've got all sorts of characters attending, Bananaman, Gandalf, Legolas, Spiderman, Shrek, King Arthur, Jack Sparrow and a ...

Kaz, thank you, of course I'll post piccies. The wedding pictures should be interesting as it is fancy dress. I'm going in regency costume complete with white wig and tricorn hat, we've got all sorts of characters attending, Bananaman, Gandalf, Legolas, Spiderman, Shrek, King Arthur, Jack Sparrow and a host of others! We're ...

Starfox: Mark-jephcott - looking good, sexy colourful cover, be really cool if you could get some sharper reflections on the balloons, both from the environment and from the girl, and some reflected colour from the balloons on her skin too, I think it would really help to bring it all together and put her in place, just a thought. Thanks, I ...

ZephyrA: Mark that make perfect sense! Thanks I'm going to give that a go and see what happens.Your metals are looking nice and reflective. I'm concerned about the back of her head though, she looks like she's all face. Its a perfectly lovely face but wouldn't some more of the skull be visable at that angle? Glad you got my ...

Everyone is doing great, looking good. Dave, I also like the second one. As for the brush query, is there any chance that you could come up with a similar design using the hard round brush set on 100% opacity and the eraser set to the same? (Assuming that you are working in Photoshop on a PC) Using a mouse, lay down random, varying ...

Damn, you guys are producing some great images, I love watching the progress. William, your image doesn't look pixelated on my screen, looks fine. Nice work on the dress by the way, and I like the chain idea personally. Here's another update, which hopefully shows why I wanted a synthetic look to the ...

Lookin' good Kaz, I actually like the splash of colour that the balloons add to your image. Here's an update on mine.......  

ZephyrA: mark- j she could be holding two of the smaller balloons...well placed of course. Ahem!!