Oh geez, this thing has so many alts. Some of them will come later when I am more awake and able to manage the myriad of layers that I put into the file.

I would have put this art on my Twitter, but I'm not liking how it is being managed, and the possibility of AI-art-skimming.

WHEW.

THIS. IS. DONE. It took me TWO years to put this picture together. Why? Anatomy, Detail, Layers, Masking, etc. SO MANY SCALES. ARGH!

I also had to worry about other projects and life responsibilities, which made it difficult to stay on one task.

If there is one character that I really like from Rick Griffin (the long-running artist behind the famous webcomic "Housepets!", and a host of other stories, art and creations), it's the reptilian beach-surfer Guana.

I don't know why, but one of the inspirations behind this was this particular song from a ZX Spectrum demoscene presentation (You'll see why in the later alts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H0YRe523_o&t=188

It just seems to fit Guana, somehow.

I really hope Rick continues to make art of Guana in the future, because he's probably one of his best-designed characters.