Finished!  Actually, I'll probably tweak it more--you know, 'cause I always do...

24 hrs later - Yup, I tweaked it just a tad.

So..."It's Not a Phase" is finally finished.  I put up the photo in the gallery last weekend, but I'm going to take some more photos once I put the galkyd on.  There are about half a million things I can think of to fix or improve upon, but I needed to move on.

Check out the upcoming "Leviathan Queen":

Pencil drawing traced over with brown ink--the arm was totally too short.

 Burnt sienna wash, then blocking in the shadows.

First few layers of colors--some parts are more advanced than others, and I've lengthened the arm.  (I apologize for the grainy photo--will be sure to post a better one soon!)

Then just tonight, I made myself do some digital painting, and something finally clicked:

F***ing finally--I'm starting to get it!

I can't wait to work more on this--not sure exactly where I'm going to take this piece, so it's pretty exciting.  This happened earlier on when I wanted to see what a red background would look like--thought it was sort of cool:

Reminds me a little of the video game WET.

Anyway, more to come soon!