Visual Language Composition Task 2

In the next visual language session we were asked to do an illustration featuring a butterfly, an elephant and a person.

The task began with thumbnailing some potential compositions before beginning the final image:

I fell in love with the landscape composition which used a longer format because I feel that it had potential to be a really nice looking image and also using a long format was more interesting than an A paper size.
I began to start refining the thumbnail after I deciding it was my favourite and used brush pen to see if it would inspire further (which it did):

Trying to fix things such as spacing and the horizon line etc.

This is the finished image. While I was drawing it I realised that the image was unbalanced towards the right side as I had accidentally drawn the elephant too far over.
When I noticed this I tried to justify it to myself by saying it creates a sense of travel, with the elephant coming from behind the tree and there being space for them to walk along, but then when I saw the image held from afar I realised it did actually look quite off.