Oh that is so cool! BTW that is totally the kind of information you should consider adding to future posts. Readers are very interested in "behind the scenes" access, glimpses of artwork in progress through process pictures are extremely popular as are posts that show the PhotoShop or digital editing techniques used to create an image. I for one would love to see the different starting images, how you combined them, what kind of effects you used, etc. - this could be an entire post on its own, this one hippogriff! (I really do love it - that tickles me pink that you created the hippogriff! I assumed that was copied in already created from some external source)

Cheers - Carl