Beautiful, as always. Your usual 3D work has a lovely illustrative quality even without a paint over. However, the paint over looks pretty solid too. It’s a convincing fantasy painting without the usual tells postworked renders have. The style would work well for book or graphic novel covers, RPG illustrations, or any situation where a painterly style might be preferred over a 3D one.
Painting over other people’s artwork would be cheating, but this is all your own original work. There’s nothing wrong with postwork, which is basically what this is. There are exceptions of course, but you aren’t submitting this to a contest specifically for digital painting (or renders without postwork) or putting it in a portfolio as a representation of your skills as a digital painter.
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