I am surprised there is no discussion area for lecture 59. We were asked to post our challenge work after we finished the lecture and there is no place I can find that connects us to a lecture 59 discussion. I must be missing something about this site.
Anyway, I did Suzanne in Photoshop, but did not make it as fancy as Mike’s suzanne. Nicely done Mike! I did have problems getting it to look good until I finished the lecture and realized if I add a subdivision surface modifier and smooth Suzanne, then the results would be much better. Also, switching to cycles made it a lot easier to get a desirable result.
Here is my Suzanne