These small hours

You know that feeling when you just have to draw a tiger? I have that feeling pretty often. Like today.. I was going to do just a quickly colored sketch but accidentally it turned out to be a 5 hour digital painting..
I tried to make it look like that moment after the thunderstorm.. You know, the moment when the dark clouds are clearing and the sun comes out. And the trees are greener that the greenest green you've ever seen and the setting sun colors everything orange. And the air smells so freaking good. I love those moments.

I don't know how well I caught that moment, but I'm pretty happy with the outcome anyway.

And here's the original sketch: