This is the project I created 7 years ago. My goal was to recreate in 3D the concept art created by Sabin Boykinov (https://www.artstation.com/boykinov). He created it for Haemimont Games project called “The First Templar”. I was working on it only to increase skills in Blender.
Original artwork you can find here: https://www.deviantart.com/sabin-boykinov/art/concept-art-209495594 .
My idea was to recreate it as similar as possible to the original drawing. It took me more than 2 months to finish it. I was using Cycles in Blender 2.75 and 2.78. It took 40 hours to render final 4K image on my i7-3612qm