Chakat Bluemist, and Sanddune, a desert stellar foxtaur embrace warmly... characters are copyright Bernard Doove, and part of his stories on the Chakat's Den website. =)

I ad-libbed the nebular background - which was fun.. The piece is done in Microns, watercolors and acrylic paints. I'm trying to extend my color theory a bit to make colors more reflective.. which is actually something really fun to do with paint. It was much harder to do with something like colored pencils.