Is it a photo?
Is it a 3D-render?
No! This is a digital painting by Bert Monroy, completely done in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

He took his time for this masterpiece, take a look at the stats:

• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene. 

Amazing work!