Finally able to post this! A little backstory, this project started way back in 2018, working on it on and off but had a HDD failure in 2020 and 'lost' all files along with it, but glad that I still keep the HDD and fortunately in 2024 able to recover some data from the disk and this is one of them! Moral of the story; Always BACKUP your files, kids!
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For the rendering, I'm experimenting with a gritty/ grungy/ old print looks to match the vintage feeling of the rifle, while trying to balance it out so that it's not overshadow the actual artwork. Let me know what you guys thought about it!