Advanced Drawing Final project

Maddy is made of win.

UPDATE: Okay, since everybody seems to wanna know, Maddy is a mage character in Evertropolis, and the place she got her training at teaches the ability to use an animal companion as a sort of summon-like technique by casting proper spells on it. Thoughts on the piece itself later.

UPDATE 2: FRONT PAGE, BABY!! Okay, so, talk about the piece itself. I'm sure everybody wants to know about the background, so here we go. I used a Google Map as reference, and there are a few points through the blurring where you can see when I got lazy and didn't color over it. I used two Radial Blur effects (obviously) to finish it off.
As for the characters, I drew them out in pencil and scanned 'em in. Then I did solid black tracing with the brush tool and added color on a new layer. I used the Smudge tool to blend the colors together and a gradient or two. On the jeans, I also overlayed a layer with a fabric brush with lower opacity and a Linear Burn (I think it was Linear Burn, anyway). Afterwards, I Dodged the jeans to give them a more faded look on the front. Uhhh... Gradients and Smudging for Shooter the hamster's aura. Gradient and Pattern Overlay for the wand energy. Annnnd... I think that's it. Enjoy.