This is wonderful!

Nice job!

This is phenomenal! The possum turned out especially great, I love the textures you used throughout! I don't think the background is overwhelming, although it is a bit patchy.. same values and hues but with less transparencies/more solid colors would really help, I think :)

The possum's my favorite too. I imagine him as having a really thick Cajun accent but fancying himself a great singer. XD
And thanks for the critique! I still haven't figured out a technique for drawing backgrounds that I'm happy with, so I always kinda rush em, but I'll probably go back and polish this one up. :>

This is so unbelievably cool...

Oh man, fat gator...I'm all over this.

I really like this style, it has so much personality to it. I'd be so happy if the professionals approve of your work, they'd be stupid not to. Good luck!

Does the gator vore?

The cutest! <3

That's just so adorable. X3

The dull color palette you used helps enhance the atmosphere.

Looks wonderful Kaz, I love that gator
Just my two cents; The background is busy, it should be being a swamp, but because of the pallet you've used it doesn't take over the image. I guess its really up to how much of a emphasis you want on the characters. Personally, I feel if you added any more detail to the background you might loose some of the impact they have. Maybe just adding a little bit of the yellow light from the gator's belly to the mid-ground (first layer of trees) would add more depth but really I like it the way it is and sometimes adding more can ruin things.

How Walt Kelly !

(The man who had his own possum and alligator in his classic comic strip Walt Kelly's POGO )

I absolutely love this, it's awesome.

Too cute.

OMG this is epic!

Looks great Kaz! Lot's of teethy goodness! The only issue I see is that the possum's left thumb seems like it might be on the wrong side of his hand? Can't tell for sure though since he doesn't have noticeable paw pads... Regardless, it's a lovely piece!

You know what....I think you're right! Man, how did I mess that up? XD I'll have to fix it up!

This is kind of adorable in a weird way, great work! ;33

I LOVE these character designs! :D

Oh wow the coloring here is gorgeous .... you know I love fat gators but man this looks great...and the possum looks very very nice as well... and that background!

AW MAN I love this so much!! That gator is so cute! I love how you drew his fat, he looks so soft and squishy. <3 It's so cute how it blankets around his lil foot, aw.

As far as the background goes; It might help if it used more solid/simple shapes instead of so many semi-transparent lines! You did a really good job at keeping it out of focus so it sits behind the characters, so I would try to hang onto that. But maybe introducing some darker or lighter shades as the trees go bath further (depending on what color you wanted it to fade out into) could help push it back more while giving it some depth.

BUT YEAH THIS IS STILL SO GOOD. ;_; I would totally read a book about these two.

I was in the Bayou, I would definitely have an alligator friend, until he got hungry that is.