Commission for  backlash, this one see his bovine "Gloria Riaz" (bio here) venturing forth from her treehouse in completely inadequate footwear. This seems to be a trend :) Anyhow Gloria has the sense to find something more appropriate, but thanks to the recent snowfall, she first has to trek through the cold white stuff, being in an area where snow plowing and shoveling pretty much don't exist right around her abode, a formerly abandoned treehouse on the edge of a small forest.

Technical:
Okay, I was admittedly unsure how to approach this at first. I had never drawn a bovid (cow) character before, and didn't have an idea how I could depict one in a reasonably attractive manner. A couple of test sketches gave me a general idea, and after doing some research (full discolsure: read "stalling") found a couple of extra depictions of the character to fine-tune things before I proceeded to...

...puzzle out how to do a snow scene. This is a bit of a brain twister, and I'm glad to report that I researched a grand total of zero tutorials on the subject. The snowy ground was more-or-less done by resisting the temptation to color it pure white, and making the sky a gray gradient to represent the foreboding clouds and vague suggestion of forest in the distance.

Then came drawing the trees, which I hadn't really ever tried drawing without leaves, until I switched my ancient art application to recognize pressure sensitivity on the tablet. Now I could draw skinny branches that thickened as they joined still-larger branches and trunks. These were added as floating objects from a separate blank image since something funky happened between all the various layers and an ill-defined quirk/bug in Picture Publisher where the magic-wand tool won't select anything on a layer unless those above it are hidden (and sometimes not even then if the image is complex enough)

To help the treehouse blend into its surroundings better, I colored its lineart. Unbeknownst to me, when I exported its lineart from Inkscape, the resuting PNG had white fills, the result of using filled shapes in the original vector inks to cover up overlapping lines. Due to the way Picture Publisher handles PNG transparency, the fills merged with the lineart when I pasted it into the working image, and due to the above-described bug the magic wand tool refused to perform selections on the object, leaving me to manually block off the fills so I could paint the lineart, then flat-shade the fills before creating another layer for the shadows. In retrospect, I could have avoided this complexity, so I'm talking about it here so maybe I won't make the same errors again :).

Pencil on bristol, partly vector-inked with Inkscape, composited and colored with Micrografx Picture Publisher 10, 17 layers excluding attributions/logo, 234MB at full size original file.
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