nice seal -- a shadow would help this

Very cute!

Very good job. But shadow is definitely missing.

Nice job, I'd fix the shadow though - maybe add a bit of blur and have a play with different blending modes.

He's chunky chubby!!! good luck author

Ya iam agree with RayTedwell..
apply guassin blur and change blending mode to mutiply or overley
than it's natural to see i think.......

Using only three legs is a clever idea, but at the moment it looks like the leg is on his left side, which suggests that he's missing a leg instead of being naturally 'compact' The leg should appear to be in the middle, between where the two legs would be. That, of course, is quite a complicated thing to achieve, so maybe the original 4 leg design or a 2 leg design, that way the anatomy doesn't look odd. I also agree with the above, play around with the shadows until you can get a more realistic outcome.

Again, good idea and nice implementation... great work

Thanks for the suggestions! Actually shadow was slightly blurry, but now I applied blur filter a bit more...
@ ponti: sorry if you thought lion has only 3 legs! It has 4 legs, it's hidden by other leg, but paw is visible.

the shadow is really distracting. work on that and you'll have something

@elficho: how do I have to work on the shadow, if the original one is something like that? I just tried to reproduce it... Pls, take a look and you'll understand what I mean.

i think you misunderstood me.. the shadow is about the same as the original, but it was done too quickly and it doesn't really look realistic. look at the detail on the original. now look at yours. also the part you don't see in the source looks kinda weird. anyway, good luck!

very well blended

hahahaha lol

Haha, great result, my suggestion would be to draw the whiskers back in. Other than that you've done great!

Thanks and you're right, I didn't noticed the luck of whiskers.

Funny lion! With cat's eyes it got cartoonish!

very nice

i love this, very nicely done! this could also fit in nicely to the "compeact animals" comp should you happen to be 8+ oc, all the best

Thank you very much =)

Nice thought and nice work...
Gud.. I love this.......

Good blend.

Congrats, EmiK!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats for 2nd

Fantastic

Congratulations!

Good job. I would try to desaturate the head a little to blend in with the rest of the pic, but that's up to you.

cool