Thanks peeps!

The colouring process is well underway. Ive pretty much completed the face and hat, and Im currently working on the hands. The shading is particularly detailed, so I expect it will take some time.

I'll reframe from posting the colouring process, as I'd prefer to keep it a surprise. However I'll post her if I come accross any difficulties. Feel free to keep commenting if you wish!

Interesting Blick! The style is actually adapted from a rather large drawing I did a while back, which is ACTUALLY based on a style of drawing one of my mates tends to use. Almost dedicated to him.

The colouring so far, however, is very different to Ptonig's style, methinks. Probably closer to the style SplatPixel uses on largish pics. But its hard to pigeon hole it.

I don't want to see his happy trail you sicko.  You've really gone to town with this one.  Amazing color work as always dude. The work you've done on the lips is really impressive. 

One crit and I feel bad for not mentioning this when you were on the lineart stage... his left leg looks a little bit shortened... I know that his heel is towards us, but the thigh area just looks ackward.

Thank you very much everyone for making your comments! I intend to not only reply to them but to instigate the given advice where I see fit (which will be no easy feat, as I've effectively whore'd this piece around every pixel alley, nook and cranny!)

After finishing this piece and uploading it I took a couple of days off the computer to get my head straight before I attempted to respond to peoples help. The break may have enabled me to settle down a little and make a bit more sense with my replies.

Sedgeman: Thankyou, however you must expect to see plenty more, and plenty HAPPIER trails than this cute litte elve's from me. Hehe. The colours, I am also proud of, however, I thought I may have been a little too tight with them. You may notice that I've only really used 5 different base colours (skinbrown, shirtcream, purple, green and red). Within these the colours many of the darker and lighter tones have been re-used, which I think has worked in favour of making the piece see more unified, however it does limit things somewhat. It means that every space must even out colourwise- which would mean making a background somewhat difficult for me.

If there is one thing I respect about you is your anal need to respond to every single artwork that crosses your nose, so dont feel guilty that you didnt mention the out of whack leg earlier, you cant be expected to see everything!

The leg has been brought up in a number of responses I've read. So it is certainly one that needs to be thoroughly seen to! I think the problem originated from the skecth stage. I think perhaps I should bring the left leg more towards the middle so that it looks less awkward, and counter this by moving the left arm down slightly to balance things out. This will also help me get the left arm right, as it currently looks a tad shifty (esp. the way it joins the shoulder, which is covered by his massive head).

pixelblink: Cheers matey! But define 'natural' for me. This is a SUPERnatural hairy elf thing. I've explained my reason for colour selection in my Sedge response. However, and extra tone on the lips would not be out of the question, to smooooooth things out,  but Sedge seems to like them the way it is ;]

Sibix: See blick's post. Thanks for making a contribution though.

Blick: You've pretty much justified the use of my palette. Cheers.

EXPECT UPDATES, MATES!

Awwww... iSTVAN bailed on the purple lips.

It actually does look really nice with the red now. 

Sorry for the delayed....er...delay. I didnt want to reply with a half assed effort only to re-edit in a matter of minute.

Pixelblink! The lips: The red sort makes it looke like he's wearing lipstick and it sort of makes the face unbalanced, colourwise. I've used a limited palette so it all sort of needs to feel even, and I feel your edit loses that with an abundance of red and a lack of purpley-ness on the face. I like what youve done with the leg though.

Ive edited to include a few of the things mentioned here. The lips and skin now have a couple more colours to smoothen things out. His left leg has been shifted to look a little more regular. Plus I've made the shadow a little like. I've also worked a little more on the belly button, as well as edited a whole bunch of miscellaneous stuff.