ad project

well i've been messing around with ideas for my advertisement project for intro to computer graphics and suddenly realized i spent three hours on just making a soccor ball look like it is made of iron. Typical of me to zone out on some random aspect and completely forget about the big picture. I think i might just keep working this way because i like how pictures just tend to work on their own after having fun with it for a while. I never know what i'm going to do to an image and i end up learning a lot of new techniques this way. Just play with it and have fun... this could easily be taken out of context, but you know what i mean.

Also, if anyone has ideas on improving the ball to make it look more "iron" please comment. It just doesn't look exactly the way i want it.