Sis Croons

I very nearly named this "Sis Moons," -- for not altogether obvious reasons -- but decided on discretion. I've been posting WIP files as I went along, so in a sense this is the 5th. But it's also the last, since the art is finished at this point.

I clearly bit more than I could chew with this job, and I was beginning to wonder if I'd be done before 2012. Not that the art is so complicated that it couldn't have been finished much sooner. The hold-up was that I didn't want to put hundreds of hours of work into the job -- which had paid me well enough, but not well enough for *that.* But the concept demanded more execution that I was willing to do. For most of the last couple of months, I've just been thinking about the problem, doing a little bit more work now and then, when I saw a way forward. The bottom line is that this is the best I could do while still employing simple means.

I may come back to this image again, someday, and rework it. But not any time soon, believe me.