trouble letting go

felt like making a personal digital painting again after all of the commissions! :] exaggerated proportions are intentional.

edit - someone pointed out in the comments that this piece looks a lot like eric fortune's beautiful piece 'beyond the past' - www.ericfortune.com/plugins/p2… . this is no coincidence, i am hugely inspired by his work and that piece in particular! i didn't credit him or this specific piece in the original description, because i didn't realize the similarity until someone pointed it out. i then edited my description to say "very influenced by the wonderful and dream-like work of eric fortune" but i'm now updating with the link to the specific piece included - please check out eric fortune's work, it's amazing! www.ericfortune.com/

worked on this on and off over the course of three weeks.. probably spent a good 15 hours doing it. drawn in photoshop CS3 with an intuos3 tablet. textures from cgtextures.com , tips on how to use textures can be found here - kitton.deviantart.com/art/tips… and for other tips check out my f.a.q - loish.deviantart.com/journal/6…