The line work takes a good deal longer than it would have if it had been produced pencil or vector, but there's more control over the subtleties of the line.

To save time, the detail has been contained in very small areas (though these would benefit from more attention) and much of the remaining image has been left loose.

The styling lends itself to the use of vivid colours and humour, both of which I tried for here. Pencil is a lovely medium and I had fun both doing the line work and adding colour to it.

This could be tidied further, so please ignore the roughness where it shows.

As a sketch, the two sides were joined by a heavy wooden bridge (we all have at least one bridge drawing in us, so no doubt I'll be returning to this) but the scene seemed better with the connection being maintained only in the use of colour and the position of the light sources.

To add more contrast, the bridge supports were also removed and replaced with tree and foliage to help 'soften' the feel of the left side. The double headed beast (added for IF:Double) on the right adds to this contrast further.

Thanks everyone for your comments..

I much prefer the feeling in the final image - they are both aware of each other but there's still the sense that one more day of SpottyPops might just be too much. Our monster looks directly at his friend and seems to be thinking it over. And his friend knows it. I did toy with the sentence using a full stop; "It's SpottyPops again. I'm afraid..", but went with it as a single sentence.

Update : thanks to everyone for their comments, these are so very much appreciated

Thanks again for all your comments..