What is the Water Elemental? Please check my WIP section (SBS) to find out more about that creature.

Techniques I've been used are matte painting inside Photoshop, clipping masks, brush with custom brushes (links), puppet warp, also brush inside SAI, and finally adjustments layers with some filters (blur, motion blur, gaussian blur) back into Photoshop.

Hope you like my creation, lots of great entries, I'm afraid I'm no match with the others.

(•̪ . •̪) ~ Thanks!

Edit: link has been updated.

Make the world clean and green

forgot my sbs, but its all fairly simple. Thanks to MJranum, MnMCarta, and NightFateStock for the amazing stock images used to make this.
ANY critiques would be awesome, just try to be constructive.

****alright...thanks to a few opinions and ideas, i've reworked the entire piece...i am MUCH happier with it now than i was before. and bonus deal, i learned displacement maps. :D **** THANKS!!

It was a difficult source to work with, but my idea was to show elements in the image. Some are the conventional elements and some aren't. I tried to include Water, Ice, Nature and the plastic fur from the ape was supposed to represent life... didn't quite turn out the way i wanted it to, but i suppose it's interesting enough to post.

For more info have a look at the step by step guide and hopefully i can squeeze some high resolution in the tiny iota of space i have left in my hard drive.