RIFT Death Colossus MV

Finally, here's my entry for the contest. I decided to participate by the beginning of last week and started on wednesday - so the deadline was really close (otherwise I would have made another entry for Fire plane).
This was almost completely painted with a wacom tablet in Painter. I think it was more than 40 hours (no idea how long it really took).
There wasn't time enough to paint all details into it, that I intended to, and I didn't like the Knight in the image, so here's my new version, on which I spent maybe 20 additional hours: [link]