Gorilla... thing + Poison Elemental

Ok, so this is for the modeling competition at THW. The theme is "elementals." So I'm making an earth avatar/elemental of a gorilla that is going to have emeralds sprouting from its body (mainly the forearms)
I'll start modeling the crystals/accessories, UV Mapping of it, and the texture later today


Critique/suggestions appreciated

Its legs and feet are way too tiny for all that bulk... or is that intentional for a super-cartoony appearance?

I think it's intentional...or is it?

[lameExcuse]yes[/lameExcuse] But yeah, I liked the zbrush version moar xD

Yeah, it's intentional
Bah, looks like I won't be able to model the rest of the stuff yet. My brother is using my work computer for his stupid MMORPG -_-

why don't you beat him up?

He's bigger than me xD
Anyway, he just got off... so YAY! Back to modeling

Rawr...
Anyway, I decided to restart this as a completely different thing (well, it's still apish in some ways)
Ok, this is either going to be a Poison elemental, Fire elemental, or Earth elemental (or avatar, whatever)
I'd rather not do Earth, so...

Well, if it's going to be poison, I'm going to add these sack bubble things on its shoulder/back, as well as green tentacles branching from the back of its head (Like Sammael from Hellboy, except those aren't green) It'll have dark tan, leathery flesh, green poison sacks, and a white skull

If it's fire, I'll basically give it fire stuff on its forearm and back of head. The flesh'll be burnt and scarred and such, white with desaturated red shading, and the head will make a transtion from flesh to skull

WIP

Go poison
PLEASE GO POISON
I wanna see sacks of poison on its baccck

Looks like the doomhound or stuff from hellboy1

Yeah, I'm basing a lot off of that, Snickers
And THE_END, yus, I'm going poison

Still need to do the back half and the poison sacks on his shoulders/back

Ooh, neato. (hello, 1960's...). Assuming the the back-half will be flowy-poison-elemental particles, then very awexome.

1 - Is one really supposed to model that large, or is size just relative?
2 - Will it be upright like the original simian, or will it kinda run/float, like Phoenix-IV's Windhounds?

It's going to have back legs, dude xD
It's going to walk on its hands and legs

Update
Basically done with the model

Triangle (Poly) count is at 1,528 xD

Oops. Well, you said "Elemental", and that was my first thought.

Still, the uber-Snap Dragon is very cool.

Well, elementals don't necessarily have to mainly consists of the "element" They can represent it, I'd imagine

And thanks