So I took your suggestions and changed it to night - I also changed the character into a boy (but only because I had already done the other one with a girl...and changing it to a boy makes it a completely different illustration that I can submit to the stock image sites). I also took care of the knee problem by blocking it's view with a bed. Anyway this is a more traditional illustration of a child praying...and it was done in Adobe Illustrator. It's taking forever to finish though as I can't seem to draw it without effects that keep getting messed up when I resave it as an illustrator 8 file (I use cs3 and the stock illustration sites all require 8 eps files). So it's been uploaded to two sites (which accept Illustrator 10 files) and I have to redraw the light and sky and the highlights on the boy if I want to submit it to any other site. Not that you need to know any of that, but I thought I'd share.
Concurrently I'm retooling the pitch I did for Nickelodeon (as it was turned down last month). I've picked up a pitch partner who's a script coordinator on the show I work on and she's even written an episode of Fairly Odd Parents. I never thought I'd be spending my time trying to pitch a tv show (because it's so incredibly hard to get it on air), but I figured that I could at least use the story ideas and drawing concepts to make a children's book. But we'll see...
EDIT: Here it is again - with a bit of a change from the outer space window...
all the blends have been changed to gradients because when they're back saved to illustrator 8 eps, all the blends freak out and turn into 25 or so color shapes and make the drawing look sloppy. And the light in the sky was originally a 'lens flair' gradient that, when back saved, turned into a series of bitmaps. So it was changed to just a simple gradient...and now, thanks to Steve's suggestion, the gradient goes to blue, not black...and the stars stop at some point. I should have added trees or something, but I was having such problems with this illustration that i thought it was fine enough without it.
