Thanks! I’m looking into it! though me and hair particles are not the best of friends… yet!
Absolutely love the painted-style of this image. Really cool work, good job.
Really liked the style. Its a very great work.
Keep up that amazing style!
great work, and special kudos for having sculpted it in Blender !
You used 6 8K textures and 3 4K textures but the final render is only 720 x 1280? Seems sorta overkill if you ask me. You should make a much higher resolution final render.
It’s a really good render though. Nice work!
It looks like a hand!!! Anyways good work!!!
Thanks guys! and thanks for the featured space!
About the 8k res textures and the low render size - I guess I’ll have it render a high res version overnight, was planning to add particle hair before the high res render, but it doesn’t work out… 
A well deserved Toprow.
It looks like traditionally painted.
Amazing post.
This looks on par with Monster Hunter’s monsters.
The style of this is great! The textures are great as well, very good work.
High resolution render is here!
^Above image is 1533x2300, which seems to be the maximum for posting on Blender Artists, to see the full size image, click the link below.
I changed the crop as well as lowering the contrast in the background, as Andrew suggested. The image aspect is now 24/36, which is standard as a poster aspect. Resolution is 2400x3600, rendered at 512 cycles samples. Rendertime: approx. 3 hours on 7 cpu cores
JPEG with lowest encoding loss: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=68702 (3.75 Mb)
Cheers!
I love this rendering style, feels like an update to the Japanese artists of old.
A hand that at best would drench you with saliva and at worse chew you into pieces O.o.
The texturing really appears to hold up in the ultra high-res render, showing just how much texture work has gone into this. That is just nuts (in a good way).
Yeah, I can’t make it look right, I’ll try again some time in the future when I’m better at hair particle simulations.
I’d love to make the mini dragon though!
I could probably make a fully rigged one in a couple of days, hmm 
Yeah, the textures are pretty sharp, though there are some noticeable UV-stretching from the sculpting a couple of places… What it probably really needs is that I sculpt one level higher resolution in my subsurface modifier, then I’d probably be happy with the high-res render. Maybe I can fake it with the normal map, because my pc starts going unresponsive if I go any higher. :eek:
Btw, what’s with the hand, I simply can’t see it ! can someone mark it in red? I feel like I’m making out shapes from clouds :spin:
Ah, this one?
suddenly, I understand EVERYTHING!
wow amazing textures! the teeth and eyes are aaamaaaziiing! and i like the skull on the chain. amazing sculpt and everything else is awesome too :):D;)
Rendered a quick turntable because why not: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=68869
Yes, I was very lazy with the other side of the face, I don’t want to go fix it 