Cyblade Colored: Reloaded

EDIT: After reading (and agreeing with) the comments and critiques, I decided to go back into this for a few hours and see what I could do. I completely changed the "glow", added some more popping highlights, and really tried to make the shadows wrap around better. i also worked on her legs a bit more and backed off on the clouds

This is probably the last time I'll go into this, I have a long list of stuff to color

Earlier version of the piece:[link]

Thanks again all for the wonderful critiques!!!

Inks by
Original inks: [link]

The background I used is from
Here is the orgional background: [link]

Time: about 7 hours (don't do flats sleepy folks . . . doesn't pay off!!!)

Photoshop CS4 + Wacom Tablet