hi everybody!
this is for my personal work, this was an exercise for me.
my target was to get realistic look and feel in a really short of time without using photo materials,
to get realistic skin i used noise filter with overlay 16% and finishing with detail highlight to get really nice volume, for dirty effect i used standard brushes plus created my own stroke brushes.
End then the final color correction.all done in photoshop with intuos3.

short story about the picture:
between late autumn and early spring is the most exiting time for this species,
because most temperate species of frogs reproduce and grow at this time.
at this time they enjoy and take a break from fighting,no sword no armor no pain etc
they have a quite long tongue which they can move quickly, the frogs have no chance to run away,probably just if they´re lucky.

i really hope to get the feedback or critics for my progress.
thanks in advanced!