I would say you are off to a good start with the design. The strongest parts are the front of the ship, especially with the skeleton at the forefront. The weakest parts are the tail end and that high stack level. This feels too BOXY and not as "nightmarish".

I like where you're going with the pipes and other steam punk looks. Just add more pipes and other essentials parts. Right now the ship is empty and boring. It needs more stuff too entertain our eyes and make use feel like "This deserves the name Nightmare".

I would say Research more ideas and designs and play around with where you're going. Maybe add a few more skulls and bones around the hull in a decorative fashion.

Yeah, I do want to add more to the design, but the problem being that I want to use this for comics... I don't want to make something that will completely burn me out.

I may end up removing the skeleton and turning the whole thing to look like a stolen/reworked military ship.

I see. Perosnally I like teh skeleton, it gives the ship a characteristic and a recognizable trait. If you look at some other comics, one thing they do is show off a fully detailed shot of an object and then just focus on the key silhouettes with colors and quick outlines. But that being said, you can still do more with less. So if you want too avoid the draining work of drawing the ship again and again, you can simplify it a bit and do away with a few decks and props and add on other key components.

Another idea would be too look at those Star Wars books that break down all the starships and vehicles to show their inner workings. They can give you a good idea of how your ship works inside and out.

I like it too, it just leads to the "where in the world did she get a giant metal skeleton to attach to a ship"

I at first had the idea of doing it more like a flying tank, but that idea only carries so far with my limited skill. However, I'm totally nixing the giant tail... it looks lame. I'm probably going to go through some of the stuff I have on WW2 planes that were never built, since I want it to have that feel (Seriously, I am a one trick pony).

Thanks for the ideas.

Remember being a super Villain you need....PRESENTATION!!!

Joking aside, I think it looks good, reminds me of Don Canard's air ship from Talespin mixed with the spaceships in warhammer 40k universe

BUt I think you need to add some REALLY big guns.

You mean Don Karnage?

there's a really big cannon behind the panel in front, I just haven't decided how it to make it look.

Yes you are correct, blast my bad spelling, any how, it needs more and bigger I say, course thats my opinion!

Well, I have no clue where to put them.

2 places I see where you can put some that are like on a battle ship, that can swivel any direction, there on top then directly on the bottom.

I was thinking adding a few on the sides. The bottom would be problematic as that's where all the steam generated by a very sciencey reactor is let out.

hmmm that would be a problem, the sides would be good too, but cant have them too big, since it will mess with the look of the wings. It would be funny if one came out of the skeleton's mouth

Well, it does need some guns for the sides, since this baby cannot turn easily. There's already some guns over the wings, I think I'll just make some like a traditional old ship where they just come out of the side through windows.

That would look awesome!

Maybe the skeleton was given to her by a dragon for some inscrutable or mutual incident reason.

Never knew dragons were inclined to keep large metal replicas of the human skeleton on hand.

Some keep, colect, or make the oddest things sometimes.