Painted using a combination of photoshop and painter...usually I rely heavily on painter to get the job done, but I'm incorporating more and more photoshop work now-a-days. I'm not sure that the character is based on anything in particular (anything I can remember anway) but the background is heavily Frazetta inspired.

the wip thread is here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=31&t=453711

it's got the sketch, and two early versions of this painting.

Nothing I ever do is really finished, so any and all crits are very welcome. This is one of a very few "character with real background" paintings I've done (two, maybe?) and I don't know that this one was all that successfull...I can't seem to lose that floaty-feeling. Thanks for looking.