Working with indian ink and acrylic

I worked on this image down bellow directly from scratch using indian ink. No pencil step here.

Illustrations

Pencil

Color ...coming soon

Pencil

 
Pencil

Color

Building a cover (digital artwork)

Step 1: for starter, i'm looking for a composition that works for me. Here, the second one is the most dynamic.

Step 2 : Quick studies of a bug, a big one in this case. I took the "desert centipede "as a reference.
The author advised me to do so.  That kind of bug gives me the creeps!!

Step 3: Pencil work

Test_01

Test_02

Step 4: color