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Artist's commentary
Norfair Depths
This is my 2nd Metroid painting. It was much more gruelling and time-consuming than my first one:
Took a little over 70 hours and once again I'm still not satisfied with it. =/ Anyhow, this one goes out to all you Ridley fans. Hope you like it. :) (Smile)
Here's a version without Ridley in it so you can see all of the background-- spent a long ass time on it! -_-
Inspired by the Norfair Depths area song in Super Metroid. The song is nicely remixed here:
Photoshop CS2: 70+ hours
Original size: 10800 x 7200