City Elemental Revisited

This piece has been stuck at work in progress for close to a year now; with the inspiration from the workshop I’m taking with David Julian at Luminous Works, I decided to bring it back out and whale on it a bit, adding a lot more color and complexity.

City Elemental, Work in Progress, February 7 2007

Model is Jaime.

There is still something I’m not happy with in the relationship of the figure to the rest of the piece, and I’ve lost all hope that my Elements series is going to be visually cohesive. Then again, if I only finish a new one every 18 months, does that really matter? (I have *sketches* for at least 5 more, but casting, scouting locations, and everything else in my very tight schedule means, well, prolific I am not.)