Photoshop & Illustrator: Inspiration

Bert Monroy is an unbelievably talented and dedicated digital artist who specialises in photorealistic artwork. He is also a writer and I've read a couple of his books - Commercial Photoshop and Photoshop Studio and they are superb.

I was looking on his website today and in the fine art section there are some wonderful examples of his work. This particular piece http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_damen.htm was created using both Illustrator and Photoshop and in total contains 15,000 layers and 250,000 paths. Take a look and be inspired (and a bit scared at the amount of work involved!).