Well I finished these two though I'm still a bit unsure about the background for the musical one. I wanted to use that tan background a lot for the dragon piece, but it just didn't work. A lot of times when I work, I put down a solid or gradient background so I can get a sense of the colours I want to use. Sometimes I end up using that background to develop a colour scheme and othertimes near the end of the illustration, that background colour just doesn't work at all anymore and it takes a bit of away time to actually see it.
