vellyn's guard

Oookay. This one took a helluva long time to finish. I did this one because I was in the mood to design some characters and costumes. Anyway, Lady Vellyn's the one in black holding the ruby pendant. And the rest of them are her personal guards. Weehee!

As usual everything in the pic was done completely in Photoshop from sketch to finish. I did use Rohen's Color Atlas of Anatomy for reference pics for the skull. Unfortunately, I have no pics of the book to link here, since I don't have a scanner and can't upload the pic. But they're basically just photos of some skulls. Nothing fancy. Otherwise, no reference photos used for anything else. Total time, close to 30 hrs. (Ugh.)

EDIT: As a couple of people pointed out, the gate looked too flat. I've tried to fix it up a bit. For those who devwatch, sorry if this adds an extra thumbnail in your messages, but it was really driving me nuts. Had to re-work it a bit. I hope this is better now. Thanks for pointing out the errors, people.