with reluctance, i forced myself into illustrator. i hadn't even begun to feel comfortable with the prog and then the creative influences started seeping in, filling my mind with objects, colors, lighting, detail, flow, pattern, complexity, simplicity, conceptual, abstract... i was so drained when i finished it... it was such a good thing i liked it cause otherwise it wouldn't have been worth the effort/deemed unfit to showcase and dumped into the recycle bin with every single attempt at an illustator piece before it. this took 18 hours to finish over a period of 3 days. thanks for the encouragement...èdí† : i have resized the deviation because i realize that the average desktop size is at 1024x768 and i didn't want to discourage the average viewer from the appeal of the detail in this deviation, as i maintain a resolution of 1600x1200, the original deviation was and still is the better view and for the love of detail one simply cannot afford to miss out, so ive moved it to scraps which can be seen hè®è!™