Fiddled a little more with the final product tonight, made a couple of intentional changes and had a couple of happy accidents and ended up with an image that was enven, after a couple very small tweaks, print size, and ready to submit (though I'm holding off until morning when people are actually awake).
And...I finished it without drawing anything tonight. Hmm. Maybe I'll pull out one of the other concept sketches and try working up a simple, undetailed image? Alternately, I could go to bed at a decent hour. (Before the sun rises, that is.)
(later) HAHAHA it's been posted for an hour and hasn't gotten a single note. Always the way, right? Let me go draw a really subpar doodle so it can become the most popular thing I've ever posted.