So after a week or two of just one picture updates, here's a post with two!  I'm in the midst of making some portfolio worthy pieces, so I've been vamping up some pieces that I deemed possibly show worthy as well as trying to finish up some other things (that may not be quite worthy of making the cut).  First up is the finished product of my succubus cthulu design.

 

She may have some small improvements added to her later (if I notice something that I absolutely must change), but for the most part she's 100 percent  completed.  I nearly wept when she was done- she was more of a hassle to create than I originally had anticipated. I think what was most difficult was figuring out how many tentacles she had and where they were going! I hadn't thought that I was going to have to also paint a back to my succubus, so I went a little wild with my first design.  I drove myself crazy trying to figure out what went there, so I finally had to make a colour cheatsheet to ensure that I had eight tentacles and that they all connected together.  

With the colour system in place it was a lot easier to figure things out.  And I managed to correct a mistake or two...for example I had the baby blue tentacle originally attached to the purple one which would have made no sense in the original design.  Even with the colours added I still sometimes got lost while counting though!

This is a quick colour sketch of a picture I posted here a while ago.   Usually when I draw I have a decent idea of the background of the character that I draw.  I figured that she was a rather saucy magician type, but I found myself labeling her as a dancer in my notes.  Perhaps she creates her own special effects?  But more importantly-

Seriously.  They both must be very chilly dressed like that.