In the Absence of Light

So, I've gotten into watching Criminal Minds... Mainly because it seems to always be playing on one channel or another whenever I turn on the TV! lol Random non-chronological marathons... Wikipedia helps me make sense of things, yeah. I like the quotes they throw in as a sort of narration at the beginning and end of the episodes, like this one...

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King

That one's sorta relevant to my interest in the character of Spencer Reid, prodigal genius, who worries about the possibility that his schizophrenic mother has genetically passed down her illness to him! D: So, this piece is representative of his fear... that he'll someday become like one of the psychotic criminals he profiles and hunts down day to day. I'm caught between thinking something tragic like that would be too sad an outcome for him, and being interested in how it might potentially play out... Hm...

Oh (blabbering on) the title comes from Reid's fear of the dark. When asked why he's still afraid of the dark, he says it's "because of the inherent absence of light".

Anyway, I started using the "mixer" brush tool in Photoshop CS5 and wow, it's lovely! Feels so much more natural, being able to properly blend shades together with it... and it's certainly quicker than how I used to manage digital realism. Yay... Okay, here's everything I've mooched from others on this site, lol. Many thanks to them! ^__^

Textures:
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Straight-jacket(referenced stock):[link]
And my reference for Reid: [link]

I need to stop making art out of people I obsess with on TV shows, lol... XD
And I need to stop writing so damn much...