The Muses (and Vikings) were knocking

Woke up on Thursday and sat down with my breakfast to watch the previous night's episode of America's Next Top Model (which in the past, has inspired me with their awesome themed photo shoots.. but the magic is waning these past few seasons) and a thought popped up that I MUST DRAW. So that on top of being inspired by my friend Annie's self-avataring of herself as a viking (Re: How to Train your Dragon which is really super amazingly awesome by the way) got me to drawing and here's what happened:

Then, another 4 hours later I had a fully colored version:


and these below are the vikings done by my amazing animator friends, Annie and Natalie: