Very nice.. I get a very "deco" vibe here. Though I must confess there are no obvious deco motifs here, but I can see here as a very lovely flapper girl.
Maybe it's the pose.

Probably her spit-curls. Those went pretty 20s.

*nods* True.. and the dress is sort of "sheath" - like.

Love the scratchy, 'real' media feel to the background. Makes a REALLY nice contrast!

That was inspired by some of the stuff :iconwhite_devil has been doing lately - lushly-shaded pinups against a sloppy-abstract-painterly bg. I liked the way it looked so I stole it!

Is that still dashed out in Illustrator? I can't wrap my brushes round to get any effect of that kind, no matter how much I try.

Yeah, it's all AI. Layer a <em>lot</em> of strokes at no more than 20% transparency, mix in some white/brighter-colored ones to knock it back up here and there. If you like what you have and want to keep experimenting, make another layer - there's a layer in the file with a big translucent gradient and some red brush strokes that I ultimately turned off because I didn't like where it was going!

The stuff White Devil is doing that inspired me is probably Photoshop, could be some natural-media program or who-knows=what. it certainly tastes more like a bitmap paint program to me.

Gorgeous work on the stair case too!

The face and tail are very neat and attention-grabbing. And the feet are too for some reason, haha.
Matching stripes on tail and dress is a nice touch too. o:

Your texturing continues to blow me away.

Much love for this piece. What a wonderful surprise to see 1920x1200 as well!

a gorgeous girl for sure, and lovely rendered, too.

and that stairhouse is surely epic. :)

Do you have any tutorials for your technique? It's one of the greatest things about your art. The design is awesome. I'm not into fros though.

I've made stabs at them in the past but never really done a super-detailed one.

The background is a bunch of huge translucent strokes in a messy 'paint' art brush I found somewhere, same with the drybrush on the stairs. Pretty much everything else is flat or gradient shapes overlaid. Some drawn with the pen tool, some with the pencil.

There's a texturing/slightly-colorizing layer over it all (see the 'creating texture' page in the little set of Illustrator notes I pointed to).

Mostly though I think a lot of the look of my art is just what comes naturally to Illustrator!

so wonderful, love that meandering staircase