+ Gaia Awakes +

... in her lushy, jungly forest home..
now.. dont you wish you looked that damn good in the morning ^.^

So I painted her.. and despite what everyone said (don't take offense please) I left the head tilted back, just because that's the one thing I loved about her. The sultriness in which she slides out of the tree. It was more important to me that she look sexy, stretching, sliding out of her bed, rather than trying to figure out the functionality of morphing out of a tree -- which most of you are correct in assuming her head should be down. I did make other adjustments others caught -- the trees being upside down, the vines being hurried in the background, the morphing of the arm and thigh, and of course the addition of the eye. *Makes note: must study realistic eye shapes and abandon cartoony outlines*

I will say, that the morning lighting effect is my crowning achievement. It was so painless and added such a great effect that I had to pat myself on the back for figuring something out the easy way and without reference. I did reference a VS model for the pose.. except for the head, the model was staring at you all "oooo look at my cool bikini" like and she had her arms crossed. I used her for the curvature of the back more or less ^.^

The flower is an asiatic lily, my favorite flower, and she's a honey blonde.. for god knows why, I just liked the colours and it worked. ^.^

Its still saved in a huge ass 20mb psd file -- so if you catch any errors or whatever... let me know.. Its still sitting in about 40 different layers just for that purpose!
Thanks again for everyone's help!