Going to keep track of my progress and time spent here!
1) 36 minutes (- 10 minutes from getting distracted?) - rough sketch of Eye Eater, Very rough BG.
2) 52 min - fleshing out volcano.
3) 1 hour - finished the lava?
4) 1 hr 16 minutes - got the lighting and smoke down, buuuut I think there's too much crap going on in the picture.
5) 1 hr 29 minutes - edit the volcano's outside to change it to a night scene, edited the smog and lightning colours, blocking the base of eye eater.
6) 1 hr 56 minutes - got Eye Eater coloured. I am leaving in the lightning despite how messy it looks aha.
7) 2 hr 3 minutes - cleared the smog at the lava after taking a good look at it.
I've never done anything with volcanoes and lightning before, and I'm happy with how it turned out! Lightning kind of sucks...but meh. Am not bothered to spend extra time to see if I can fix it.