Eternal twilight had released its grip upon the world.
The moon had risen to see the land turned over, torn apart.
The shadows of the glowing, decimated, silent cities have returned.
The scorched, black, metallic skeletons of buildings have appeared from the silver mist of mercury and sulfur.
The radioactive dust had settled on the piles of our bones.
How blind and how thoughtless was our move.
How pointless as it seemed now, our war for land.
That was waged in the name of unity and god.
That brought a great downfall,
And the eternal winter,
A dawn of thermonuclear reckoning and our eventual extinction…

Nay, evolution of survivors into… death itself.

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Some people out here (you know who you are) have demanded that I do more perspective and better depth, and Lo-
I have captured a fairly complex and delightful perspective in this piece.
Perspective shan't escape me again. Mwahahaha.

Drawing time: 30 hours with all the edits
Software used: Painter 9 and Photoshop CS
Hardware used: a single ball mouse
Real size:
4000x6000 pixels
Now it's a cover for music band Downfall: [link]