Lightning WIP - Moving to Color

I took a break from working on Journeys and moved back to Lightning and began working on moving it to color. I have a couple ideas for this piece, however know have to be careful with it; I can't neither over do it nor under do it; it has to be at the right combination of softer and realistic technique. It needs to feel like a dream, or rather the ending of one; the feeling that this stage is over, and it's time to move onto the next one.

I'm still having trouble with the 3rd thumb, which is big trouble for me since I should have sketched it and considered its lighting already. The 3rd piece is the hardest and most difficult to do of the 3 of these, and needs more attention than the both of these combined. I do have thumbs but none of them are really quit what I want. I'll try updating more on this later this week.