Companions Process

BIG FILE! be patient
[edit: I had issues getting it to play - if you have trouble try clicking download, hopefully that'll work]

I remembered to save right from the beginning this time so this pretty much captures the whole process of this piece.
It was painted in a bit over six hours, in photoshop CS 4.

The final piece had about 8 layers, including a couple of levels adjustment layers at the end to tweak the final look, and full res is about 4600px tall.

Enjoy!
Final is up here -