So about a week before Halloween '24 I was doing some antique shopping with my wife when I saw a pin up print of a nude woman reclining on a cresent moon titled "Honey-Moon." (Zoe Mozert? I am not sure.) Anyhow, inspired by the general concept I did a few sketches of rough poses both on paper and in PPaint. I started with just concentrating on studying the lighting from the cresent moon which I decided should be more the effect of a spell than the real moon. I also decided there needed to be a snake and due to the holiday the woman needed to be a caped witch with a hood. (And since my preferences tilt disctinctly towards curvy and heavier women it is roughly modeled on my wife... posted here with her permission.) Then I decided to get crazy dithering the glow with all kinds of little shapes and stuff.

I didn't intend for it to take this long but I got hung up on changing the raised arm position, messing with the shading, and worst of all I spent hours and hours over days trying different methods for doing clouds in the background also highlighted by the moon but I just drove my self crazy and never ended up with anything I liked. (Then I took a break for a couple weeks due to work.) Worth it for the learning though.

Because of the content, I will full accept if the piece is rejected by the mods or needs edits.

Made in PPaint on an OCS Amiga in 64 color extra-half-bright mode, lowres 320 x 352.