Are you ready for some Mayhem?

[impishimpi]

Well, thank you for the kind words.

As to how I did it: my basic method was to find a fruit with the right texture, adjust the hue and saturation to get the colour I needed, and then 'draw' on it using the burn and dodge tools. For the beard I used the fuzzy peach, inverted it, adjusted the colour, warped it into the shape I wanted, then layered it to make the beard heavier in some places.

...ta-dah!