This is piece that I did a couple of weeks ago for a special project that I wanted to contribute to. You can find the details here.
The first image is at roughly 1.5 hours, strictly in ArtRage 2.5. After that point, I shifted the image over to Photoshop CS4, and started tweaking the layers, which brings us to the middle image, a little over 2 hours into the piece. Finally, in the last image, I’ve added in the detailing, character shadowing, a very small amount of photo use for texturing, and added the final tweaks.
Total time: 3.5 hours.