thumbs up author.. great way to start the contest

This is great!

Very creative. The Rule of Thirds might suggest that moving the elephant and castle to the left and doubling the length of the chain would enhance the compostional impact. A slightly smaller castle riding a real elephant would also be more effective IMO. The elephant's foot shadows (or lack thereof) make it look like it's floating slightly above the earth, not standing firmly on it.

cool

good. nice colors

very nice!!

Nice kick off to a hopefully humorous contest!

good idea

very good composing, blending, allover work.

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats

congrats

Congrats!!

Congraaaats ON 3RD

very good work.. but I've said this before on other entries like this.. if you didn't see the SBS you'd go.. Hey... nice Elephant LOL and then move on.. good thing this contest is here. it really makes you LOOK at the work

elephant it's not a reference, it's actually a source... but anyway, it's not copyrighted or anything so there shouldn't be any probs... it's a nice texture modeling, and you created a nice mood, but it'd be greater if you "build" the elephant with source plates (like an automaton or something) instead of overlapping both the source texture and the elephant texture... still a very nice chop

MIKE, it is honor for me like this comment from you. It means I am really successful creating realistic elephant from source using liquify, burn, dodge, painting highlights and shadows. For your information, reference mean reference and all is done using source only. I think you did'nt see my sbs . I am now capturing my screen shots of layers and further detail sbs showing my shadow and highlight work on seperate layer. It is confirmed that I did'nt used elephant texture overlapping. See my sbs after few moment .

EDIT : Mike 7 further steps added in my SBS, please see closely and if still you are thinking and blaming me that it is reference texture then it is your fault not mine BTW I am very happy after your comment coz its all result of my hardwork

good job , i think the right-back leg (i don't know how to point it out) needs shadows and lights to look more 3d like the others. GOOD LUCK

I like the color and mood you've created. Very good work!

nice colors and texture! great job, good luck!

TheWinningStar, thanks for constructive comment, due to smaller size of leg its looking odd, I have increase height of right back leg and added some shadow and grass for depth,

good work!! leaves in the background are not fixed properly. look like flying.

very good

gopankarichal thanks for problem, corrected

very nice. great job author. like the color and texture.

Very nice - you have a few small bleeding areas though - above the ear and at the top of the tail.. Also the bright edge to the back leg looks out of place, i would darken it more..

Thanks animmax , fixed

Looks much better!!

cool

WOW!! Very Nicely Done...Good Luck

great job the elephant looks so real

Brilliant!!!!

Very good work, and those bushes look so real i would've never expected them to be brushes!! High marks from me! Well done and good luck!

Good work author!!!!

Man this is huge! Really outstanding masterpiece!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats! Very well done.

congrats

Congrats!

congrats!!

Congrats again

Congrats!