I love your brushwork. And I am glad you are capturing the stages as that first piece, where you lay down the color and shape, is like everything I love about vintage illustration. Of course the final piece is the quality of the old masters.

I think one of the things I came to realize more as I moved my painting and drawing digital is that my 'studies' and 'layers' were in and of themselves also finished work. And each of your layers are stand alone pieces to me.

So well done, and somehow I've missed your stuff. It's hard for me to keep up with everyone on here and sometimes people slip through the cracks for me so I was so glad to see you on my feed this morning!

Also, I feel you with the thumbnail. I always do my own crop because if you leave it up to steemit you get the oddest imgae. I do a lot of figures and animals and when they are cropped wrong it's like, "What is that?"

Glad to find you again. Wonderful, just beautiful.