Maserati MC12

Easily the longest quantity of time I've ever spent on a piece. Bear in mind when when viewing that I started work on this piece in December 2004, and so my skills have evolved whilst in the process of creating it. I've genuinely lost count of the amount of hours spent on it; but it would be a huge amount.

I used pretty much all the techniques I could to try to make this piece as realistic as possible; no part of this picture you see before you is a photograph. Everything has been made in Photoshop; <strike> and I've slightly changed the colour of the white section of the car; originally it was more golden and creamy, but I thought that the more neutral tone gave a better contrast. </strike> EDIT: Actual colours now are applicable here. I wasnted to make it look as true to the original as possible. Numerous other little tweaks also. Just google "Maserati MC12" to see if I've succeeded.

This is the greatest testament to what my skills stetch to within this field; and I'm rather proud of this piece too. I've tweaked, re-tweaked, and scrapped parts of it a ludicrous amount. Number of total layers in the .psd lies somewhere around 400 (Most people have no idea of the work required for detailed illustration; but I'm sure for this piece the absolute minimum I've spent on it is 30 hours, and thats my most conservative guess.

I went for the more realistic look; as realistic as I was able to achieve within a respectable timeline. I don't think I did too badly; but I just have to look at the work of `dangeruss to bring me back down to earth. Reference picture was used here.

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