Everything but the firearms
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Hallo hallo hey hey hi-de-ho and chirrup!
Erm.... difficult to know how to start these little monologues, aside from "I've been painting!". Well, doh! 
Oh well...
I've been painting!
Today's work concerns mostly moody lighting. Our hero, standing backlit before the nameless terror, well, the snake.
Snake's done, by the way. I've put a bit of mood and colour into the linework.
I've painted like this for a while now, with a layer of black linework over the main paint layer. I do the main body of the painting under it and then paint into the linework. The newer versions of Corel Painter make this really easy. I just select the linework layer and make a layer mask from the transparency. I can scribble like a dementee and only the linework gets painted. That alone has saved me about 6 hours each painting.
Aaaaaaaaanyway, notice that there's not a huge amount of detail on the man. Since the focal point of the picture is the snake (and possibly the crown), the eye wouldn't have the foreground in focus.
Just gotta paint the gun and holster now. And the logo. Yes, the logo. Where's it going to fit? Well, thing is, I've painted this picture full label size as it'll scale up nicely for the manual cover (which is 300dpi, label is 600dpi) but, on the finished label, it's going to be reduced in size a bit, windowed in a crumbling stone surround.
Well, that's always been the idea anyway. Still figuring out the finer points of the logo.
It'll work, trust me
That said, I get my monitor calibrator to tonight. So, chances are I'll discover I've got all the colours completely wrong! 
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