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So, this is a sort of WIP. I felt inspired to do something after re-reading Neil Gaiman's "The Dream Hunters", illustrated by Yashitaka Amano. If you're not familiar with the story, it's based on a Japanese Fairy Tale about a fox and a monk, and the Dream World.

I was going for a loose, calligraphic kind of style as in the old watercolour paintings. I did the lines in Corel Painter with a dry brush and added a little bit of colour and my own scanned textures in photoshop.

I wanted to incorporate a fox into this but I just can't get the composition right, and every attempt I made looked too "cut and paste". I want it to be a part of the image, not just placed on top.

So, any critique about the piece so far would be greatly appreciated, and any thoughts about where I should take the piece next is also greatly appreciated. My watchers on dA haven't even commented and the other forums are moving very slowly. :c

It looks really really nice.
The only thing I can see is the hairline; it's too high
The hair should take up about the top third portion of the head