My Picture Book Pages (with a bit o' complaining)

Heads up - I've been staring at these images for a long time, so I'm at that stage where I see nothing but problems. Hence, there may be some whinging in this post (plus I'm writing this at about 2 in the morning).

I meant to do more "work in progress" posts, but instead I just went ahead and churned out the entire book as fast as I could. These are the pages as they currently stand (in reverse order of creation). Some images I'm more happy with than others, but... deadline, time limit, 4 weeks, blah blah blah... - they ended up this quality. I'll try to live with it.
Not sure what to put on the back cover so this could definitely be subject to change.

I'm really not happy at how "photoshoppy" some of these pictures look. It's due to the fast noobish digital painting I did. Slightly above MS paint.

Personally I like my drawings to be "cleaner" than this. Normally I'd use ink for outlines and such, but instead I just had to do the quick poor man's version of burning the outer pencil lines in photoshop. Some people may find the scratchy pencil lines "charming", but I think it looks more like a drawing mistake than an intentional style choice.

smoke is a bit dodge...

At this earlier stage I was spending a bit more time on the backgrounds.

This picture of the girl is the one I like the most. I think it's because I did it before I felt like I had to rush each image.

I imagine the cuckoo as some sort of cross between road-runner and Spawn.

These pictures do make nice thumbnails, though.