I would love to see the series of events that led to this.

:DD And you'll definitely get to! Plus, what comes after.

Amazing painting. I really like the whole art style is done, it's very unique.

Thank you! I'm glad I've gotten a simplified version down :D I really want to do a fully illustrated comic, but I can't spend 8 hours on a piece xD

This feels pretty close to a style you could effectively do painted comics in. Especially if you can work in a lot of background reuse.

I assume that a lot of panels can start to re-use background elements, or at least certain things. I also really enjoy backgrounds, which helps xD

Oh, definitely. In my last graphic novel there were a few times I drew the hell out of one location, then reused that drawing shamelessly with the help of perspective tweaks, cut-ins, and other such tricks. There were other places I drew the heck out of for one panel that never appeared again; sometimes that happens. And enjoying the process of Drawing The Background helps in both of those situations; sometimes you've just gotta spend a week working on that giant two-page spread that sets the scene.

(but being able to knock out something like this in an hour sure as hell helps, I generally end up spending like 30min-1h on the average panel and that's a pretty survivable pace IMHO.)