Ok, had some food and now a couple of hours later this thing is really coming together.  I think both horse and rider and ready to start “inking” over but I am going to leave it to later to do that.

Meantime here is a rough color test of the image so far. I did this just to get an idea of where I am going. This is by no means finished 😉  Now I am going to leave it alone before I break it. Will post some more images once I do a bit more work.