This started as a speed painting but I got a little carried away with adding some details Took about 5 hours I think. Used mostly gimp and some photoshop, all with the basic hard brush set to opacity with wacom tablet (ie no custom brushes). The painting developed from blank canvas with practically no ref (only images I did use was some google pics of Indians to get some ideas on apparel and the bird skull). It was initially meant as an exercise in figure and anatomy as I have been working through some of the Loomis guides on figure drawing. From blank canvas I sketched in some interesting shapes for the overall composition, until something became suggestive and then worked up the main figure from there. I then developed the landscape and it was at this point that an aboriginal theme started to emerge. The addition of the flying craft was made partly to give a focal point for the figures line of sight. Colour development came at a later stage as the painting was monochrome to start with. I kept the figure and landscape mostly in warm greys which helps to emphasise the otherwordly quality of the ships in more intense blues. Any comments are very welcome