"We must act out passion before we can feel it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
This is a contest entry for the 
The theme is passion.
I decided that the female body best represents passion.
I also decided to test an open-source painting app called Krita.
Here is my process.
First I did a quick sketch to see how Krita handles my drawing tablet. It handles it quite nicely.
Next I added some shadows, because I'm cool like that.
Highlights. OOH OOH YEAH.
Some details to make it look like I know what I'm doing.
Let's make things difficult by adding some stuff that I definitely don't need.
Backgrounds, because I don't do white.
Put detail in that background, dammit! Also let's blend out those dumb stars.
Some last minute detail work to make things pop!
Hope you enjoy! I had a lot of fun testing out Krita. It is a cool alternative to Photoshop. And it's FREE!