Steampunk Fairies:from prelims to final

So this project comes form a story on called clockwork fairies I think. The story is a steampunk tale about a female mechanic who makes clock work faries and has a fiance who is a dandy and kind of a racist dick who wants her to be a socialite a quite her work. If you interested the story is on tor.com 

 And this is the final art! I switch to a pink because the blue I was using was too deep a color. I like how it turned out. Definetly the pink has a metalic glitter to is so when I finished it at night and went to photo graph it, the way i lit it the ink looked straight up silver. I'm keeping that little bit of info for a later project.

 This is the final color study I did it straight over my final sketch

 these are little studies for the color final because i was doing it on toned paper so I waned to se what paper made the best midtone. This is with acrylic ink

 this the final sketch. I played with the symbolism involed with the subject matter. the background is in a honeycomb pattern because the maincharacter's family crest is a bumblebee, the fiances crest is two inter twined serpents which I put on his glove for a second read effect and the main character is represented by the fairy.

after i did my thumbs for compositions (which are not here)I tried to get a good reference photo in order to head into my final sketch. My little bro was nice enough to pose for it.