Another depiction of a moment in my personal fantasy narrative.The king of worlds, dormant for ages inside the mechanical womb of his protector, has awakened from the depths of the earth, and people will learn to fear him as he rises again to redeem everything that has gone wrong ...

The image was started in Painter, then continued in Photoshop, then in Painter again, and then finally in Photoshop once more. It was my first real try in Painter. Maybe I'll use that program further on in a piece that allows for more of a painterly quality. The level of finish this required made it much easier to complete in PS. Took about 25 hours.