I posted http://ramirus.livejournal.com/19364.html a bunch of wip images from the Emmit and Creature painting. Maybe check it out just to see the final version at the resolution I originally painted it for. I didn't realise that DeviantArt had shrunk it until just now.
A couple of things you can see in the progression:
I switched to drawing with a tablet a few days in - this is my first real tablet painting. I abandoned the sketch-version of Emmit (the lady in red) almost immediately after I scanned it, but this was probably a mistake in the long run. I wanted to have her body language be more exaggerated, I worry that a lot of my characte