Fan-freakin-tastic !!! This is really marvelous considering the time and the efforts, not to mention the software. WOW!
I had a girlfriend who was a painter. ( The canvas and brushes, real-world kind, not MS Paint. ) She used to arrange bottles, flowers, stuff like that, shoot a photograph on slide film, and then project it onto the canvass, then trace the lines with brushes. I always sort of thought that was cheating. Anyway, it looks more like this was copied with Paint from a photograph, pixel-by-pixel, from a photograph. For all the reasons I explained.