I've been working on this painting in ArtRage Studio, studying the work of an artist called Erik D Martin. I really like the crude way he uses colour to form shapes.
I'm not satisfied that i quite captured the complexity of the texturing, but there's room to learn...
Original painting and more work by Erik D Martin can be found on his blog:
http://caffeineartist.blogspot.co.uk/
I've been conducting some artist studies in hope to improve my landscape and environment observations. I spent a while slaving at a digital painting in Artrage from a layout in Bambi.