Thanks to extraordinarily quick response times from Kaldath and great reference photos, I am happy to present the winning prize for the Patriot Hero contest:

Many thanks to everyone who entered, and to Kaldath for a fun and interesting character concept to design around. He has the HeroMachine versions of Salara and Kaldath available online, if you want to see what they looked like coming out of the program.
Congratulations again to Kaldath, and I hope you all enjoy seeing his concepts in color. Don't forget, your chance to win your very own black and white custom illustration is going on now thanks to the weekly HeroMachine Caption Contest, so head on over and try your luck!
And as a bonus, here's a close-up of Salara:

Thank you very much Jeff, I love it and you got it finished A lot quicker then I thought was possible. Also person who Role-Plays Salara at Raven’s Keep will be thrilled with the bonus close-up pic of her character!!!! As I said in my email if I had the finances to do so I’d hire you for a lot more artwork. Top notch stuff!!!
That is truly a thing of beauty. Hey Jeff, how much do you charge for a commission? π
Thanks Imp! I can’t actually do any illustration work for anyone else per my contract with UGO. This is the only place I can draw for now.
Well Jeff, you may not be able to take a direct commision from the Imp because of your contract, But if The Imp really wants something drawn up by you he could always try and contract it through UGO. Of course he’d have tp pay whatever price UGO decides to charge for it “if” they were to agree to it.
Now that is a great visual all together. Awesome Jeff and Kaldath!
Well, seeing as UGO would probably charge me my firstborn and my soul, maybe I’ll wait till Jeff’s a free agent. I’m extremely envious of your talent, Jeff.
He is very good isn’t he ? π .. I am considering burning the file to a CD and taking it to some print shop and see if I can have it printed up Poster Size