Skyward Spiral

Download for full view. EDIT: Well, the picture seems blurry for some reason :/ I'll see what I can do to fix it in the morning, but at the moment of the edit I'm far too tired xD

...And finally I upload something decent after a long hiatus.
I decided to experiment with a somewhat new media combination and a new style, and I'm really pleased with the result. Of course, it looks better in real life; the scanner messed up a lot of the shading on the left wing, for starters. And it ate up a lot of the tints, although admittedly you can't see much of them in real life unless you look at the picture under a strong light xP
And I know I usually say this, but please please critique? Since I'm trying a new style, I want to find the flaws of it as soon as possible so they don't later become habit or something. Oh, and excuse the crappy background. The paper had a buncha weird dot thingies on the back, so needless to say, the colouring was less than satisfactory. I tried my best to blend it out, but... *shrug*

Lineart: Sketched with a HB mechanical pencil, and a few spots were later enhanced with a S Faver-Castell PITT artist pen.
Colouring: Copic Sketch for the first layer, Prismacolour Premier colour pencils for detail and shadow enhancement. A tiny bit of white acrylics here and there for highlights.
Paper: Aquabee manga paper
Time Taken: Estimated 9 to 10 hours.

Edit: Here's a link to the picture which inspired the pose: [link]