Hm, somehow I forgot to upload this earlier. Silly me. o_o; Full view please. It'll look better that way. <3

I drew this picture for the sake of doing something with a background. I drew the picture by hand, scanned it in and then digitally colored it, which is something that I haven't done in a really long time. e_e;

Amazingly enough, this is one of the few pieces that turned out almost exactly the way I envisioned it. I put a ton of time into trying to color the darned thing, but I ended up hating my original lighting scheme and doing backlighting instead. That's cool though - I think it looks a lot more dynamic and tension-filled this way. Much more interesting to have Xanshaa descend into the dark than into the light, no? Anyway, there are plenty of snags with the lighting, but I still like what I came up with.

I originally attempted to color this in Painter, but as usual, I got fed up with the program after an hour or so of puttering about, and went ahead and colored it in Photoshop. Hooray for the airbrush tool - I don't know how I'd live without it.