the stona-cabana

this is for a group challenge held at you can read more about it here
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how this piece came about ...
i was inspired by a stock photo which was to be used in the challenge, that the first thing i thought of was the flintstones dont ask me why but anyway, since i cant use or find any flintstone images, i thought i'd put a twist on it and go sci-fi
flintstones with alien images i found here on dA...well, then came the "weed" theme because "we know why they're here" ...so, here we are that the prehistoric "stona-cabana" where all the groovy aliens come to party the night away
some of the images used i "cut" using my freehand selection tool with a slight feather of 3.
there was some blending involved to try and make the whole scene fit together.
i used a gradient that paintshop pro 8 supplies for that overlay
the shading, which i need some work on and any advice is greatly appreciated was achieved
by using the "drop shadow" feature. the shadow was added on its own layer, blurred and layerd
below the aliens.
i also used some psd files, which makes for alot less cutting.
the rest was just pure fun

thanks and credit to the groovy folks supplying the stock images used and listed below...

star field 6 [link] ~mikeyc-5150

ganja [link] ~Chennyho-Stock

dolmen [link] *YsaeddaStock

europe trip [link] ~Swordexpert-stock

star wars rancor monster 6 [link] ^FantasyStock

star wars yoda [link] ^FantasyStock

joint [link] ~ravenarcana

leaf 3 [link] ~ravenarcana

ufos [link] =Falln-Stock

fantasy model 46 [link] ~unholy-stock

fantasy model 20 [link] ~unholy-stock

this image was featured [link] at #Artistic-Maneuvers

this image was featured by !verghi52 [link] thank you so much!

and featured here too [link] by ~ravenarcana thank you so much!

featured in a journal here [link] by =CSnyder thanks so much!

featured [link] by !Aseamlessbond thank you!

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