sorry-this was the one I was referring to

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/138604/dont-fence-me-in.html

You can use any program to make a chop, one guy, i think it was L@rue, used msn paint for a chop
but that chop of mine was drawn in Illustrator, shaded in Photoshop, just honing my skills

Zero original here too
http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/122471/cutout.html

BB - I thought you did use the source on that one... thought you removed the background and used warp to get the lizard just so and then used it to cut out the shape from your PS metal!

I doubt that I would heve been able to do it that way. If you check the link
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/bigbuckster/source.jpg
I basically drew it in flat 2D as I imagined it might have originally looked. It was a pretty laborious task if I remember correctly.
After it was drawn (and cut out of the rusty plate), I skewed the plate and added thickness.
I was quite pleased with the result, and a bit disappointed that it didn't do any better than 7th place.

looks like most of the ones at the top were just entered earlier... you know you did a great job on that, and so do others.

Sometimes there are chops I've done where I thought it was ok, but it got a lot of votes and other times I spent way to much time on one and it didn't do well... just don't know sometimes!