Tar Monster Paint

Here's one of the paints that I was working on this afternoon.
It took me a while to get started because I was unsure how to fit together the aspects of the designs that I - and everyone else - seemed to like into it.
The good thing is that I managed to get there in the end.
The bad thing is that my digital painting skills need a lot of work; doing this made me realize how rusty I really am.

It was a pretty good exercise in using photographs for colour reference, though
I kept the image I was using as colour reference in the top left corner so that it was easy to see what I was working off, and I feel like I managed to get the tar to both look - and feel - like tar. My main problem with this picture is to do with the way I rendered the bubbles; My skill at rendering different kinds of reflective surfaces is really bad right now, so I'll probably need to practice that sometime next week.

Now to do the wraith...