Brilliant drawing Nese. Thanks for letting us have fun with it. :)

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STOP! STOP!As you know, compression kills! So please take a look at the high resolution, high quality image here:
High resolution

Please take a good look at this image. I've honestly spend about 24 hours making it - believe it or not. And I've spend a lot on time on the details. Especially the frog, the hair, shadows and highlights and textures. The textures are all free stock images from sxc.hu.

Compare with and without shadows and highlights:
Animation

Hope you like it!

Wow, this took a while to finish. Awesome illustration to colour.

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Please give me critique, as this is my first illustration coloured.

this was hard..haha

Spent alot of time of this...please please view full for details. :) Thanks!

I really enjoyed doing this! Well done Nesehehame for the amazing drawing.
Click HERE for a nice big (1200x805) version... please!

:( Compression really killed the detail. :(

Larger Size

WIP

First time trying this and probably the last :). Here is a larger version of the image!

Whew, got it in forty-five minutes before deadline. This beast took me a LOT longer than I thought it would, and I even cropped a bunch out. I think it turned out pretty nice, though. That's definitely the best pear I've ever colored. =)

The final PSD has, like, 23 layers. It probably had twice that at one point. I can't focus on the screen any more; my eyes are completely shot.
I'm going to bed. Good luck to everyone. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all did with this challenge.