Finally found a reference image that fits well with what I have in mind.
However, as you can see, I didn't like the position of her legs ; maybe I could have worked out something with the same pose, but then again.. I wanted to play around a bit and see what can be done to make her more "uncomfortable" or tensed maybe. So I used the biped in 3dsmax and tried to match the pose in the reference photo with the proposed sketch.

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Did a rough line work and key light setup.
The Wings though ... might change .. let's see what happens.

For now, this is the lighting that I'm aiming for.

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Mood setup and Shading progress.

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More red! .. need to break up robe smoothness ; I guess I'll leave that for later.

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One of many crucial parts .. her face.

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Hey thank you so much dude !

Thanks a lot Samuel !!
Tons of stuff left to do .. hope I get there man

Time to bring In the divinity staff .. this will give me an overall view of how each of the element(s) need to interact / play around with the scene.

Next...shading work ( .. FAINTS [¤_⊙] ...)

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Progress really slow
Getting difficult to balance office work , house work and this piece.

Trying to pull through...
Anyways ... I'm experimenting with flow and few effects.
Somehow I'm not getting that particular "feeling" or mood .. need to change the overall shading to punch up key colors.

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Getting somewhere ...

Weird combination but it's working .. quite dark though _
Will fix all that much later.

Slowly building up robe flow .. lots of tweaks needed.

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Wings test ..
Rough cut up.

This will give me an idea as to how some of the elements will affect each other ..

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Cray .. thank you so much !!
Means a lot

Many exaggerated stuff in this piece >.<
Wish I could've made this in 3d.

On the other hand .... I'm little scared .. tons of things left to do.
I hope I make it.

I love magic and mysticism .. I want that look and feel desperately.

One of the reasons why it's getting tougher ..
When working on one task .. something else grabs my attention .. then I switch.
Everything going back and forth ⊙-⊙

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You are absolutely right man ....I'll keep that mind!
Those little details will make a difference!

Freak there's so much to do O_O
i know i'm being whiny n all, but ... I'm just worried about time ..

Anyways ... next update in few mins.

Managed to do something after i arrived home from work. I'll have to multi-task