chinois...

 the thumbnails were drawn the old fashioned way, then scanned in later for reference to what in blazes i was attempting to do...

started to rough things out a bit...

continued to hash things out a little more--this ended here though, the overall direction changed completely after this and it was abandoned for lack of time.  one of these days i will revisit this for fun though--i liked where it was going.

as you may or may not be able to tell, i drew this in flash.  mistake.  i should have anticipated that the file would get very large very fast...got very slow in a hurry.  when i come back to this i will most likely finish it up with sketchbook pro.  at the very least--if it must be 'flashified'--save the final linework for flash.