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Hello everybody, this is my first contribution to CGTalk.

This image was a personal project inspired by 19th century orientalist paintings mainly the work of Jean-Leon Gerome. It depicts a lonely traveler encountering the skeletal remains of an enormous prehistoric whale, revealing the geological changes this landscape must have undergone over thousands years.

I painted this image using Photoshop over the course of two days. The most challenging aspect of the image was balancing the scale of all the elements to make the scene appear borderline plausible.

I'd love to hear what you guys think.