Behemoth Stumbles

 And then I started this. 

 I've decided to try working a lot larger than I'm accustomed.  I feel like I've got my ink method down well enough that I can risk branching out.  I started with an 18x24" panel, because I had one lying around.  I'd wanted to show some kind of deer-riding savage for awhile, and working on a giant panel seemed a good a time as any.

These are all just process shots I took to keep track of the thing for posterity.  I won't bother pointing out the glaring defects that I see.  Over all, I enjoyed it quite a bit.  I found it somewhat odd that despite the fact that this is at least 6 times larger than any surface I've tried working on in the past, I was immediately out of space.

 I had initially wanted to show a whole pack of things running from this guy, but there wasn't really room.  Just as well, the action is clear.

 Partially skeletal deer have rapidly become an old standby for me.

Space constraints led to a lack of any foreground trees.  All of these pictures are terrible, but the background trees turned out alright.  I'm using a house-painting brush for a lot of this, so it's fairly ham-fisted.  Even still I was able to get a little bit of texture on them.

All aglow with spectral powers, as per usual.

And a final wash of diluted ink, and some more trees for good measure.  All in all, I like the result.  I've got another 5 slightly smaller panels I'm going to start working on today, if this fever abates.  As of now, I feel like crawling under something and shuffling off this mortal coil.  I'm a lot sicker than I presumed when I left the house today.  I've spent the last few hours sitting on a couch nodding between fever delirium and coughing fits.  There is a sign for free ice cream posted on the door here, and outside it lined up with the bottom of the "massage" parlor signage across the street in such a way as to make me think, "when did that cat house start giving away ice cream?"  I looked at this conglomeration for an uneasy 5 minutes before realizing my error.  Good work, super brain.  I'm going back to the couch now for the last hour and a half of my shift.  I hope no one wakes up early.