this is is based on the painting "lucky" by brom
www.bromart.com/
brom has been a long standing inspiration to me. hopefully this image does his fine work justice

this is the most final image so far. as with any project there will alway be more to do but this is done for now. check out the original painting by brom. still some differences and some things left to do.

i did a lot of fighting with mental ray to get this done, and to render it at a decent size i have some reading to do.

CC welcome, if you know anything about optimizing mental ray please fee free to email me.