the touch of genius which makes it a dream figure, is the door in the background.

Good idea and good looking image., Gl

Very well done, good luck author!!

Congrats, kushpatel. Such an amazing imagination! Love the lighting.

Congrats Kushpatel!

Can tell you like restoration great job

awesome restoration work. specially on the right side of the image where it was more damaged

Thank you - that right hand side guy was insanely difficult to try and make 'human' I'd love to try and do restorations as a small service as I love playing with them for fun.

I was totally working on doing this, lol. Guess I wasn't fast enough. Great job author! Good luck!

Perfect job!..high marks on this hard work..GL

Congrats on 2nd place - good job on that guy on the right!

Congrats!!

one thing i would pay a bit more attention on is you cutting out. The arms look pretty hacked with bits missing and the fingers on the right arent cut out at all. Just needs a bit of practice though, weve all been there
Goodluck.

Keiley is correct, and i very kind about mentioning it... i unfortunately am not so kind, so i will not say much else about your image. I do suggest taking a look around the net for some tutorials on proper masking and on some of the other tools it appears you used, such as liquify and smudge tools. Good Luck!

Thank you both for taking the time to comment. It is a very poor chop; but probably the most important lesson I learned in this exercise was to pick an image with good resolution to start with.

Fix the shadows...light on elephant is from upper right, about 2 o'clock.

Have a look at the direction and strength of the shadow on the goal posts, that'll show you what you need to fix.

the shadow doesnt work for me author..and it is too sharp too

great idea author...GL