Updates much!
Been a busy few days.

Here is the character design I've been working on-and-off on for the last month...A demon that at first glance looks human. He has a few eyes incorporated into his tattoos, which is actually his skin (well his nails are black and he doesn't seem the type to paint them ;p).

Corel Painter 9.5
15ish hours or so...not really sure though.
Textures from CGtextures.com

Bouguereau's painting Tricoteuse

After seeing Yumedust's coloured colouring book page on her DA, I decided to do one of my own. I settled on Esmerelda, of which I coloured using the colour pallete from Bouguereau's (yes the same artist as Yume, but hes one of my fav's so i figured it was ok ;p) painting Tricoteuse (the first image). Intially I wanted to use his painting "Rest" for the colours (I have it on my wall) but decided to go with a more restricted colouring scheme.

Oh and for the record...digitally painting stone is freaking hard without using existing textures. I did use a combination of dry brushes and pastels in Corel Painter 9.5 which did help, but got tiring after a while. No photo textures used and only reference used was the Bouguereau painting.

5ish hours
Corel Painter 9.5
Esmerelda Colouring book page is copyright Disney.

Ryan Wood and Sam Nielson have also done the same with Belle and Jasmine pages!

current desktop

The weird guy is based off a character brief a friend gave me! :) Its still a work in progress!

oh...and that the credits to Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkaban. Getting ready for the new movie coming out on Wednesday!