Yay! All finished!

Here is the final, assembled image. It is 20x30 inches, and let me tell you that scanning this beast was a monumental effort in patience. Since the piece is so large, I had to scan the border and the middle-ground in eight different sections, then stitch them together in Photoshop. I used piled books and a ruler to keep everything aligned during scanning (as my flatbed can only capture 8.5x11 inches at a time). I then made further adjustments in Photoshop to even up the very slight misalignments that remained, and I balanced out the colors a bit. The scanner tends to sense the most common color, then exaggerate it.

Deep Rising 11 is the latest entry in one of my oldest continuing drawing series. I started Deep Rising back in college, in 1998. It is by far the most ambitious.

Here's the final materials list:

Border decoration: Prismacolor Premier pencils over a watercolor/salt wash.

Middle-ground: Acrylic and salt base. Acrylic rhinestones and acrylic "crinkle-foil" jewels (the long lozenge things). Freshwater pearls, amethysts, blue-green-dyed serpentine, abalone shell. Metal things. Enamel dots.

Dragon: Ink, watercolor wash, Prismacolor Premiers, and a tiny bit of gel pen detailing.