Difficult assignment. Given sufficient time I feel I can always pull out a good pencil drawing of anything, but I'm really lacking digital painting skill. As such I simply set myself some ideas for characters to draw and explore, before going in and just experimenting with the digital painting as best I could. Hopefully in the future this will be built on and become something far more professional looking. This piece primarily relied on solid color blocking, many many layers using multiply, and quick lineart. Many a good painting or drawing I see online is entirely dependent on solid lineart, I'll need to dedicate more time to that step.