... you should always save your progress once in a while.
I worked on my first weapon model and when I was about 95% finished, photoshop just crashed and I couldn't do a thing about it. So, I had to do the complete rendering again and the result is by far not as good as the first one, but I can't help it. So annoying, but being angry about it won't help either.
stay tuned~
Hehe I read about your photoshop crash @ dA, a real shame!
I've learned (also the hard way) the you shouldn't just save progress 'once in a while', but 'very often'.
Did you use a filter over that RIP-image, or is that hand-drawn?
It's a mix of a lot of filters and drawn stuff, just went crazy with it ;)