I want to give him some sort of awesome retro sunburst style background to emphasize what a winner he is.

I also want to finish coloring him so that he doesn't look so flat.

But here he is.

woohoo! finally. all my dreams are coming true!

yes this guy could definitely use an interesting coloring treatment. like maybe just some shading even. I know you can do it!. or your name isn't J Finnius Mufferman.

I think I want his sidemost rays of glory to wrap around.

I demand shading! again. and more platypussez. please.

add some texture and shading to the platypus and this will look great :)

Mathiole already subbed a design with a very similar concept, I know the rendering is pretty different but just to give you a heads up before it comes up while in the running.

Mathiole's platypus

Wow.

Thanks for the heads up. That is a really cool design. I'll probably finish this up anyway because I promised someone I would.

Sigh.