Little Elephant · Bend-Dependent Wrinkle Spacing

SUBJECT
One original little elephant character with a rounded body, four short legs, broad ears, and one long tapering trunk. The elephant faces image-right in a three-quarter view; its trunk extends toward image-right and curls upward, with the tip pointing back toward its face.

COMPOSITION
Show the entire standing character at eye level on a plain warm ivory background. Place the body slightly left of center and leave clear space on image-right for the trunk curl. Keep the trunk separated from the face and front legs so its bend and wrinkle spacing remain readable.

STYLE GUIDE
1. Shape & line
Build the elephant from rounded masses with clean, gently varying outlines, and taper the trunk continuously from its broad facial root to its small tip. At the upward bend on image-right, draw short curved creases close together along the concave inner edge and farther apart along the convex outer edge; let each crease wrap partly across the trunk rather than cut through its silhouette.

2. Color & light
Use muted blue-gray skin and subdued dusty pink inside the ears. Light the character softly from image-upper-left, placing a broad pale highlight on the upper-left surfaces of the head and trunk and a restrained cool shadow beneath the curl; darken the compressed creases slightly without turning them into black stripes.

3. Texture & material
Render the skin as matte and softly leathery with sparse shallow creases. Concentrate the visible texture around the trunk bend and keep the cheeks and belly comparatively smooth, so the changing crease spacing communicates compression and stretch instead of an evenly ribbed tube.

4. Composition
Keep the trunk curl large enough to inspect within the full-body framing, with a clear ivory opening inside the hook. Use a small calm eye and a relaxed stance, and place a soft contact shadow directly beneath the feet to ground the character without competing with the trunk.

PRIORITY
Preserve the requested identity, count, action, composition and output settings. Apply the style rules within those constraints; a style reference must not replace the subject or layout. Within the style: Prioritize the trunk's continuous taper and the visible contrast between compressed inner creases and stretched outer creases.

AVOID
Avoid uniform ring spacing, sharp kinks, and deep grooves that make the trunk look rigid.

OUTPUT
Create one square character illustration with no lettering, captions, logos, or watermark.

SELF-CHECK
Check that the upward curl reads clearly and its inner creases are visibly closer together than its outer creases.