I figured the best test of whether using tone and color marker and colored pencil on this awesome tan paper was too much, was to go ahead and try it out. I don't think it's "too much" so much as "nice, but doesn't really play to the strength of the paper."
Oh and also I was thinking about byakhee and about The Thirteenth Warrior so here's a Get of Fenris werewolf fighting a nexus crawler.
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Solid! I quite like the pose.