I wanted to try something a little different rather than using the smudge tool to blend. I thank Anoop, my friend, who gave me some ideas of using brushes to blend. The nectarines are just shapes, filled with colors and blendings.
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I think this image is cute and shows the comfort that the little goat might have.
Sweet image, almost like the goat is in a manger with that straw seat. 
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Thanks to ppdigital from Morguefile, for the pic of the concrete texture, used as my background.
The rest is PS and lots of patience.
UPDATE: I had to go for the realistic leaves...sorry Mossy. Background, desaturated. (5 years and 3014 days ago)
Peaches are very well made, and realistic looking. Can't say the same for the leaves. I'd suggest modeling them after a realistic leaf to keep your image consistent. GL author. 
CMYK: Thanks, I have to go out to the yard and look at a real leaf of a peach tree we have. I did this just thinking of a peach, and leaves, kind of hard to do this by heart. No reference used. Good idea! 
Noooooooo!!!! 
The surreal leaves are my favorite part after the beautiful shading on the peaches.
The background is a bit too intense for my taste, I'd soften it by decreasing the contrast very, very slightly, but leave the leaves be!
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Thanks MossyB: I just finished drawing more natural leaves, and look nice, but I will wait. I think you are right. Will soften the backgroud.... maybe desaturating it...a little?
Author.. if you put a gaussian disk in faded black underneath the bowl and burn it's bottom edge it will help with grounding the bowl .. another disk under the isolated fruit will help as well (IMHO), Overall, FANTASTIC image! Good luck
Beautiful image author...Whole creation is top notch...High marks from me and i wish u good luck...
STEP 19....Shows my first final image. The leaves were changed to the ones I have in my final now. So, you'll get an idea of what the image looked before.
Mossy, I am sorry I had to go with the realistic look leaves. The image looks better, I think, thank you for suggesting about background, it is desaturated now.
CMYK: You got it! Leaves look nice. Driven, the basket / peach are grounded now.
Erathion: thanks.:-
GL author! 
Great job on the peaches (they almost look fuzzy) and the new leaves , author!
Beautiful work author! Looks like a painting!
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Very Cezanney heheheh.. great job!!!
Thanks Driven!
very well done
Thanks Shipley!
Amazing work but I think the edges seem too rough, normally peaches have that soft skin with little hairs.
Akassa, I am sorry, these are nectarines, as nicehotcupoftea, tells me. I was confused, but yes, it is the real name of this fruit. I blurred the edges a little.
We call those nectarines here, which we define as a smooth skinned peach that doesn't have the fur. However I do agree that the top edges are a little too sharp. Beautiful painting though.
You are right. Oh well, I just wanted to finish this painting, as it is my first digital painting using brushes to blend instead of the smudge too. (Some Mexican people, as me, call them peaches) I changed the name to nectarines any way. I blurred the edges, hope it looks better.
Looks great now! I particularly like the front one. I'd like to try this myself.
Thanks again. It was a challenge for me. But I am happy with the results.
Really nice painting, author, beautiful colors! I like the way you have your pallettes in the squares.
Thanks pearlie, it was a challenge for me, as I used the smudge tool most of the time...now, I am using brushes to blend it better.
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