Nice work author! Just some little nitpicks, I think the front flipper of the lower turtle should be in front of the fan, and you can try and warp the fan's a bit more to give them some body, it seems a little flat. GL!

Love the colour and the turtle is great!

This is great stuff. Keep up the great work!!

luv this

Happy and free turtle, beautiful image

Tries to encompass realism & surrealism and does neither.

I think we all know which authors work this was being 'influenced' from. It doesn't really work author.. GL

A. Doesn't matter who influenced you, because anyone was influenced at some point by something/someone; and it's not like someone is God or Nature itself and all the others just copy.
B. The problems with your entry:
1. No need for 2 animals: your selling point is the rhino and his head - that should stand up more, make the mushroom bigger- CROP the image, etc.
2. You already have 2 humans of different sizes and at the same distance from the eye - I believe you scaled one of them wrong.
Remove the one on top , keep only the one on the bottom, she will give you scale and interest point..
3. For realism sake the river should fall from the animals back, and be seen falling on the sand.

I think it looks very good !

thank you

Very nice work author...gl

Thank you

very nice, love the color.....this kind of work is very typically you...GL

Great work

I think it's stunning, beautiful work author.

Precious bird

Great use of source author, but you might want to come back and do something about the clothing shining through your shield. I hope you find the time to fix the shield!

That is supposed to be that way, the shield is glowing, it's magik... lol

Here's a tip for masking out the grass. Go to Select - Color range, then pick the color between those grass leaves adjust fuzinness and check in the preview what will be selected( the white part), click ok. Then either click delete or press the mask button and Ctrl +I the mask(inverts it).

Nice idea, just follow the great tip from greymval, that would improve the work considerably. You might check the cloning on the background, it's a bit too obvious. GL!
BTW a high res image is always helpful.

Nice concept ... wish you had been able to do a high res ... I would love to see the detail in the peacock.