Close up: I used the following to accomplish the concept: Photo courtesy of Serena Thao. Stock photos from Morguefile.com. Texture from Deviantscrap.
Lonesome Aries Fantasy Concept
Aries WIP and Completed Sketch
Final sketch. This was scanned instead of taken by photo. I've started painting it in Photoshop but I'm not so great painting digitally so it's taking longer than expected. I still hope to post up painting WIPs.
From My Corner of the Universe 