Elephant Model

This is the my first model ever! I did it about 2 years ago, and am still astonished that I pulled it off without knowing what I know now. It is based off of a scultpure that I bought in Oregon a while back, so it is supposed to look like that! When I first started it, I remember that I just pushed and pulled individual vertices, and even made them overlap. It almost gave my teacher a heart attack because it looked so bad! So I had to start over and since I didn't know anything about sculpt geometry or soft mod, I moved every single vertex into place. One by One. Painful! But I'm happy with what I ended up with, and with the knowledge that I gained. You can't learn Maya without doing, so I'm glad that I jumped in feet first.