I wanted to give him a little idea of what I was working on so I did up a quick digital sketch of the lower middle portion of the painting that I would be working on today.
And tonight I painted it up.
Yeah, it's got big differences. The point being, his character spent a long time trapped in the catacombs, and in that time he found old necromancy books and learned all he could just passing the time. I wanted this to seem a bit more obsessive than mere study. Necromancy does that to people.
Anyway, just a small piece of the bigger picture. Don't want to give too much away before it's done.
good luck and hope to see the finished piece soon ! 
Love my stone collection too, but haven't gotten to take a pic yet.
