This is a realism picture, with detailed background, for :iconssbn732:. It was awesome to get to work on something this detailed. <3 This image has the closeup, covering some of the background, so that closeup isn't in the original.

Please forgive some wonky perspective. I've never done anything like this before.

Done in Photoshop CS6, over seven days.

I got the trial for CS6 and loved it. Sadly it wouldn't let me import brushes, so I tweaked things in CS2 here and there.