Un/Lucky Encounter

This is more-or-less inspired by another Weird Fantasy cover, where a futuristic damsel is cowering in the shadow of an alien eldritch abomination. As we are in a more modern era, the girls have their own rayguns, and are clearly fighting for their own survival and not just standing there screaming. They are still probably screwed, if you'll pardon the turn of phrase.

I'd like to do more illustrations like this that depict an action scene, things happening, but this particular piece took more or less a full day of work, so that won't be practical unless I can improve my efficiency.

GIMP decided to crash after I had shaded the monster, so I redid it quickly and angrily. I suppose it might be good for practice to do things over, but it was still really annoying to lose a couple hours of work like that. I couldn't get the kind of slinky effect on the beast's neck that I wanted to, as my arm just doesn't move that way.

Since I would like to make prints available for people, I made this one in a very high resolution. I'm not sure this one in particular is print quality (or even the kind of thing you would want to hang up on your wall) but it's helping to get me used to the larger size. (like apparently I need to save more often)

Besides being damn good on its own, this is my One-A-Day artpiece for Jul 28 2013. Made with Bamboo Tablet and the GIMP.