"Let There Be Waves!" (Commission)

[Solanum]

The humble beginnings of this picture were originally posted in the Sketches forum, and I completed it (or at least completed it as much as I care to) last night. Something about it looks "off" to me, maybe I'm just raising my own self-expectation. It's probably one of my best works, but not THE best. Though my father (who is very critical of everything I do) said it was "excellent", which is kind of a first.
Enough dilly-dally, here is the finished product, a Photoshop cartoon drawing of Jesus Christ riding a surfboard, as requested by my buddy Bob. (For better detail click here (http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7696/jesusmedresvq5.jpg))

[Anthis]

Love the concept, really funny :)
Anyways, inside of his left hand looks a bit odd, lines on his left shin bone may be a bit too strong. Also, the hair might be a bit too tidy for someone surfing. And the water just behind him a bit too calm.
Thats what I think, at least.
How did you get the water like that by the way? Can't be just rendering ;o

[Solanum]

Love the concept, really funny :)
How did you get the water like that by the way? Can't be just rendering ;o

I used a tutorial for the water, which can be found here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37701009/

As for the waves I just used the color picker and a medium-opacity brush and painted away on a seperate layer, then used the Liquify filter to make it look more.... wavey? Then I messed with the brush settings and spaced the brush stroked further apart (maybe 300-400%) to make it look like splashing foam. It was a pain in the ass but sooo worth it! Though it could be messed with more but at 2:30 AM no one really wants to bother. Lol.
Thanks for the input!

[Seedling]

Lol! :-)

[Shortydiva]

The unnecessary lines in His left leg just don't look right. Maybe a quick suggestion is the make the lines a whole lot thinner because thick lines on the area of focus and disregarding lines for the rest of the image just looks weird. In other words, He'll blend in with the image. It could be me but I think you could lessen the highlights a little. But good image!

[Dyao]

I might suggest taking out a lot of the lines that form the wrinkles in the clothing and instead using darker shadows.

Another suggestion is to make the surfboard larger and more obvious because right now it doesn't really look like a surfboard. For visual subject like this, you want the viewer to understand the image immediately.

That being said, I love the concept. Hehe, maybe see if adding a halo works?