The making of big elephant_48362528379d8, step by step...

original image

step 1 of 5

Background:
Created by using various Grunge Brushes by KeReN-R and overlapping that with a Bronze Grunge Texture by mullybinks

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step 2 of 5

Painting w/Frame:
Placed elephant into the picture...flattened it...applied a filter of Rough Pastels...placed frame over it

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step 3 of 5

Lamp:
Cropped elephant...overlaid the stone texture and applied the multiply blending mode.

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step 4 of 5

Putting it all together

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step 5 of 5

Adding the shadows and lighting

final result