Assignment 4: Place your animal into a landscape

The assignment for this week was to create a landscape and place the animal into it from the last assignment. While not exactly a landscape, I thought it was more appropriate to place it in an environment that was more fitting for the subject. Once again, I used a pen tool to draw out some rough shapes, and then proceeded to shade the individual leaves using the gradient mesh tool. I spent entirely too much time trying to make it perfect, but I'm pretty satisfied with the results.