This is my final piece for this contest,

I am not going to just blurt out words or make this lengthy just for the sake of it,

In this one, I just want to thank you all, for conducting, for participating, and for making all these little contests possible.

I was struggling badly with my mental health since the past year now, and especially these past few months, i felt so lost, as a self taught artist in this space with all the advancements and the pace this industry has taken, i lost the plot for a while

I was just waking up everyday just for the sake of it, clueless headless as to what to do and how to move forward in life and in this profession, and started spiraling hard

But this past month, participating in this somehow made me remember why I started it all, and coming here seeing all of such artist bringing their craft with them, i just, don't know how to make this sound as impactful as it has been, just, all this, brought the joy of creation back for me.

Thank you for this, from the bottom of my heart.

I know the piece doesn't depict the kind of description I started with lol, but the first image gets a bit close to what I had been feeling, stranded, alone and by the end the joy on the chicks face is close to what I ended up feeling wrapping up all this.

A small breakdown :

Base girl was made in daz

brought into blender

tweaked morphed textured it all to push the realism plus mixed a couple of things to get the look, the cyborgy and exo stuff is close to an entry I started with ( my first one )

The environment was done entirely in Blender and a touch of color correction done in lightroom.