If you are calling this your 'final image' with all the detail, then you are certainly going out on a bang! Overall it looks fantastic, and the quality is amazing with good form, good lighting and amazing attention to detail! It will be a shame to see less of this from you, and I won't lie almost all of your images always show the same consistency in quality.

As for finding posing and the motivation to draw, speaking for myself I have been looking at how I started with drawing, and what made me want to draw as much as I could, and looking at my much older work I guess I can only say is to have like one major project and just keep doing lots of little random works. Doing sketches here and there, little idea poses and thumbnails, just to keep things flowing. It certainly is harder to do when mixing in a social life and full time job, but its the only way I can keep at it. So maybe take a break from super big and detailed images and just go back to fun sketches to then build later. And as ya said ya have your 3D projects coming, so I'm curious to see how these come about! :D

And I guess the main criticism I have on this piece, is kinda the bit ya spent the most on; the grass. I can totally appreciate that you wanted it to be all yours, and to draw each blade out to make it yours, take dedication, but also as you found it eats up allot of time, and personally I find it can turn the image into a labour of love and you forget the real reason you started this piece. A better option would have been to simply use a 'grass brush', either a stock one or even make one yourself what with how smart drawing software is these days. Some might say its cheating, but I take from the idea that 'A good artist works smarter, not harder.' and feel that spending so much time and energy on something that in the end is just grass, which can be done more efficiently with the right tool allows you to put your focus on the main part of the image. But that my opinion, if what you wanted was to give it that truly personal touch, then do it and don't let others stop you. Only other note on the grass, is the colour looks a little too blue, and might look more natural with some yellow or orange tones on it.

And that's my bit on this, I know you will read this, and know that I write this to help, as you always have for me. =] And do be satisfied with this image, because it is top quality and never stop doing what you love doing!

Yes you are right, how could I not read this? Would be ignorant as shit :b

Your hints sound like I don't have the drive to draw anymore, but that's not the case - it's all about the time consumption. Complex images take time, which is the main reason why I will go simpler from now on. Which doesn't mean that my images are gonna be cheap. They will still be appealing, but having thicker lines, a single shadow without gradient and less fine details, like the hair and grass. But it's gonna be the same style. You can say, those images will only be 50% of joy compared to such a one here, but will cost me 10% of time to do, so will be a good deal content wise. As mentioned, the amount of quality I am cutting on my drawn pictures will flow into 3D animations. They will be detailed.

First: The color of the grass looks perfectly fine on my screens, definately green enough. Might be your screen settings?
I have used grass brushes in the past, and while I got better at them and you don't see the trick right away, at some point you still recognize the grass being "artificial". It looks like too much in order, while my drawn grass here is wonderfully chaotic. The good thing is: You only draw that once, and I saved the result as a 60MB PNG file for being used in other pictures as well. Though I am not working often with grass anyway, because it often oncludes other elements of nature, at which I suck hard XD Simply said, this here is my last piece of drawn high quality, and I wanted to go that path without substitutes. Which is also an issue why I need to go lower from now on, because when I want to do complex quality, I can only go full shot and then it takes ages. If I am not intending to low level, the only other choice is 100%, as I am perfectionist.

Hehe I suspected as much! :p

Nah morn the idea of not drawing 2D again, but more pushing towards the idea of drawing more sketch work for fun and building up what ya like the most. And I'm sure anything you create will be great!

And for the grass, I checked it across 3 monitors and a phone, and it just seems way to blue and artificial to me, like it's more astro turf than real grass but then it's your image, you pick the colours you want for it!!

Well I can only assume it's a matter of taste, because my best screen is the OLED screen of my Note 8, and it's a wonderful green there..... Would you mind showing me a picture (photo, drawing, whatever) as example for that? I would like to understand better.

I like everything but the water, it is very fake looking with the excessive wavyness. Her face and hair are beautful ~

I appreciate the honesty. =) Well you don't knowy if she has been moving her tail through the water. :b But I admit, I wasn't really proficient at creating the water. It belongs to nature, and I suck hard at drawing nature!