Thanks so much everyone!! I will be sure to post new illustrations here as I finish them. For anything reptile I am seriously hooked on using stipple. It does take forever but the texture is a perfect fit for reptiles when using ink. I am actually going to talk to Kara tomorrow and see if she would let me use one of her insanely nice BP photos in exchange for the original illustration. I know she has some super nice high res shots of some seriously nice snakes.
Thanks again everyone!