lizard and a shoggoth

[Gollum]

I've been working on this single sprite for years.
It's never going to get done, and I know it, but I may as well get some advice on shit.
See, I want him to look like this;
http://jesus-lizard.deviantart.com/#/d2phm6s
What should I do with what?
I mostly just want advice on his toes, because I hate them.

Also made this Lovecraftian beasty:

It's a shoggoth
I'm never going to do anything with this thing, but Id like crit so I know what to do better next time I sprite an amorphous blob (which is surprisingly much more fun than spriting humanoid characters.)