I love your lighting choices.  That woman's skin glows!  And I love how symmetrical that knight's shield is plus I love it's design.

  Great work!

Thanks, Aquila!

Here's a little sketch that may or may not end up being part of this week's challenge (probably not! No time this week....)

 Here are a few pages from the sketchbook, doodles done in the last month or so.

Haven't see you here for a long time ) I glad you've back! 

Cool sketch ;)

Those sketchbook pages are amazing, Smolin! Great characters.

New one is great, very cheeky, I think it works well :) 

Thanks for all the encouraging feedback, folks!

Oh, Mhugo, I did finish the Koschei thing -- it's here. Someone must have really disliked it though, because they gave it one star. [:'(] It did OK at the ConceptArt challenge (my definition of "OK" there is getting a couple of votes -- tough crowd!)

More sketchbook scans.

First some random doodles.
 

Some prelims for a goblin pinup.

Those were too hideous, so I prettied her up.

Next, some prelims for a Monkey King painting (and a random gal):