This is something that came out of pieces of sketches that were rejected, or just not chosen, or didn't work for whatever reason. I'd been doodling this image for a couple of months, so in between jobs I thought I'd pick away at it. It's more a product of absent minded drawing while doing something else than hard thinking.

I messed around in Painter to try to get some morte painterly textures...

I think I used just about every brush I could find for the flesh.