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Oh hey, this is my work. Had to do a double-take when I saw this.

Glad you liked it! And thank you for giving credit and linking to my DA page. 🙏

They say an image is worth a thousand words, this one tells an entire epic, and its a technical masterpiece too, amazing work!

PS Feel free to submit these here yourself.

This is a good example to compare it with AI work, as this image gives me a lot of information that I suppose you wanted to provide:

• The contrast between some blunt violence and peaceful, beautiful and soft nature (butterfly, spider web), a settlement overgrowth, the cart and chest at the background inform me a lot of what probably happened here.

Maybe I am missing my mark here, but if I saw this in an RPG, I can immediately understand the situation (I am safe, but some past danger unraveled in this place and it might be close-ish, there might be some loot and some clues).

Soft nature? A spider near a butterfly. There is a layer you missed!

Oooh cool, so danger was nearer than I thought.

This is definitely an ambush.

How long did it take you? To get to that level and to draw this image?

This image is just contrast in every aspect.

Movement and restrained
Death and life
Horror and beauty
Soft and hard.
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I'm a 3D artist and I create my images and models in Blender and do my texturing in Substance Painter. I've been working with Blender for around 3 years now, I think.

I can't remember how long this picture took exactly, but several days at least. A good amount of that time was spent creating the axe as well. Many of the props, especially in the background, were things I made for a previous project and reused.