After many grey hairs, kicks in the rear and nights of using my sweat to fuel my gas lamp (the heat has become intolerable lately ) I managed to get my submission in to the [link] 2008 Calendar for my theme of The Month of the Serpent.

First off - yes, there are only YEARS of the Snake as far as I have been told but in this regard, the different animals were assigned to hopefully corresponding months and I got The Serpent...which was exciting and it bent my mind thinking up something So it was a month for each Zodiac Year.

Initially, I unfortunately got bogged down with problems at home and realignments that had to be done, and I only managed to get this piece completed 2 weeks into January after spending 90% of my work leave working on this. Then, to crown it all - my tablet packed up on me after 4 years. So I apologize to those that have had to wait for my submission.

After alot of ideas, I had to narrow myself down to what I would be able to complete in my given time, so I settled on a character I thought up whilst getting info about people born under the Snake...I was attracted to the elegant, mystic, wise, secretive and possessive aspects that I saw. It conjured up the idea of a mage-like character residing in his sanctuary, relaxing after studying his many grimoires and rituals.

Again, something quite new for me as even with my Voidstrider, whilst it was coloured, it didn't exactly feature a complicated background - I thought this would be the ideal time to experiment with something like that and what can I say...why stop now, time for more of my attempts at colouring

Gotta love babies in jars.

Here is the link to the Calendar Download (in pdf format, about 5mb big): [link]

Here are the links to some of the other Calendar submissions from my fellow DeviantArt friends:

Year of the Horse [link] by *kitty-cat-angel

Year of the Rat [link] by ~snargo

Year of the Bird [link] by *ZeroExile

Year of the Monkey [link] by *slinkyonion

Year of the Tiger [link] by ~Supensaa-kun