SamSzymSketch

[Samszym]

Thanks a lot guys! Love Barret Hanna's art, but I'd never really taken the time to study or synthesize it...might try and pull some of his techniques for this! Really glad I decided to get back into this piece, I'm excited to take it to a finish! Great points all, getting some more visual flow and patterning in there is a cool idea. Though I perosnally think I need some ares with less detail to give the image some mystery and rest...I'll see what happens!
Love the trance suggestion, I actually had that scene with Kaa in mind when I was doing the preliminary sketches for this! Just, with a lesbian spider instead of pedosnake. that's how I roll, I think. Why I didn't do the eye thing I don't know, it definitely helps the focal point and story. Really cool to see you picked up on the similarities :D
Good call adding the other arm and the other mandible ( just for the record they're actually pedipalps), I was scared I'd mess up the silhouette by adding them in but it's my job to find a solution that looks good AND makes sense in space >:0 I like the arm caressing her spiderleg, might add that in. It's much nicer business than just having the hand be there like I decided to!

here's another progress shot, haven't had time to make your changes yet, will try and get to em tomorrow! Biggest thing was I fiddled around with making the lines thicker and more decorative to match the painting style. Might take something from garret's book and wind up taking those out anyway. such WIP. very decisions to be made.