I've spent so many hours on this it's not funny.
But I think it's paying off, I think it's looking fairly nice thusfar and I usually HATE the results.
I'm pretty pleased so far. I normally do NOT do the BG first... But I wanted this one with a rich background and wanted the characters to blend nicely color wise so I did the BG first and am choosing my color palette for the rest of the work accordingly.
O_o KICKING.MY.ASS!