This is the best way to catch up on the Inktober - combine more days into one :) And you did it greatly! The girl is beautiful. I love that her hair and face are clean and the rest of her body is muddy. There is a nice contrast with dark background. I also enjoy how the lighter background smoothly changes into a dark (black) color. The jewel is the centerpiece here. It's the first thing that you see when you look at the illustration and it looks like you built the whole scene around it. Great work!
I also like the step by step photos and GIF shows the progress nicely. It's interesting to see how a few various shapes at the beginning changed into something so fine and beautiful.
Thank you for sharing and good luck with the rest of Inktober! I hope to see combined ones again :)
Thank you for such a nice appreciation, you're absolutely right, the jewel is the focal point as it is a great source of illumination, I love when you notice these little things.
Of course there will be more combinations of the inktober themes, the next illustration I'm doing comes with "Chop", "Prickly", "Stretch" and "Thunder", I hope it looks as good as the idea in my head. :3
I'm looking forward too it :)