Yeah, I followed a GIMP tutorial, then used the Monitor's central eye for overlap on the middle part. Nothing special. I just like it ^^.
That's great. The lighting piece on the Orb is a little small considering how much light you see on the silver outlining. It would be nice you tried matching the lights to make it as real as possible because there's a nice big piece of lighting on the chrome outlining but there's such little on the actual orb. This is way above average for a first IMO