Design Contest: Ando and Friends

I have been interested in surfing all my life. I've never had the opportunity to learn how, but over the last 5 years or so, it's been closer to the forefront of my mind. I've been a subscriber of Surfer Magazine for five years now, and this year I opted for the "two-fer", and am receiving Surfing as well. Long story short: there was a design contest for Ando and Friends, and I spent the last few days working on an entry. I sent it off in the mail yesterday thinking the deadline was this Friday, but they recently extended it a week, so I am surely on time. I used Prismacolor pencils and cut-up alphabet stickers that I had left over from a few birthday gifts for my nieces. This is what I came up with for my submission:

detail (click to enlarge)

I figured anyone can just color a black & white print out, and since I'd been wanting to put the many cool patterns contained in the stickers to good use, they were the perfect element to elevate my design. I had a blast trying to figure out the best ways to use the scraps, cutting as precisely as I could without wasting any of the material. All while trying to picture the finished product without smudging the larger colored areas (which I left 'til last). Judging is supposed to take place by September 3rd.