Looks pretty cool but you need to find a 3rd species.

Sorry to rain on the parade but a goat and a leopard are both mammals.
From the contest description: "Pick at least 3 categories. (one mammal, one bird, one fish for instance) do not use two animals from one category."

the next harry potter creature lol

Well done & good perseverance after realising the different problems along the way. Good luck.

fast and slow balance? ..I find the back ground colours are so bright you tend to lose the focus image

good luck author

the skin on the legs and the body dont match also i think you should have done the hands and feet too now is more like a human with a leopardmask and leopardwetsuit lol

Kind of the look I was aiming for Eladine, Thank you for your suggestion/opinion (the leggings where kind of an Idea from the eighties and the face I added smudge to look fuzzy.. can't please everyone all the time (also I saw a show on Animal Planet which had animals with mange and the under body patterns from the missing fur were amazing, what I used as a reference in my minds eye, their shaved skin patterns were amazing, if not so sad)

and the Swimmers cap was just a hoot to me

It's a SHAVED leopard, not a furry one

Yes! Because when you are a swimmer, you shave your whole body! I remember that from highschool. I wasn't on the swim team, but I remember having friends on the swim team who all of a sudden were bald!

What about the hands and foots ? Good luck author

just turned them Yellow Lolu.. like animal leotard

omg, I remember having to take swimming lessons and wearing one of those caps. Great chop, author.

The fur's direction going sideways on the face looks odd...It doesn't looks "painted," so much as cut and pasted overlay.
Perhaps reposition the fur so that it runs from top to bottom...

Not painted, just an overlay.

Changed

On theme, but ho-hum.

I think "Painted" in a Photoshop contest could well include overlays, otherwise this would be a "digital drawing." If nothing else, you could paint the fur...

It was better with the fur. B&W photos are generally more "ho-hum" in a chop contest.