Normally I find my direction for an image very early on, so that I can tuck away the WIP for months and not lose the feel for it. But this, I couldn’t figure out what I wanted from it. I repainted everything over and over. Usually, I end up scrapping paintings that give me so much trouble because if I ever do finish them, they end up terrible. In this case though—I’m glad I didn’t scrap it because it ended up teaching me a lot of new things.

Anyway, Nhaiuusah is something of a nature spirit. No one is quite sure what he is or where he came from, though many suspect him to be a child of the Saedhj.

The anatomy was hell to get right; I’ve never compiled so many different sources for one pose before. D:

Photoshop 7 and Painter 8. Crits are appreciated; thanks for looking.

Closeup: