Isn't it interesting how I get more and more familiar with your art although I'm not watching you at all? I love it when people are just so active that I can't ignore them for long.This one is certainly an eye catcher. The thumb is amazing. And under normal circumstances, there'd be very little to add other than that perspective and lighting are on point! However, since I'm commenting for, you know I'll findto write about because I can be nitpicky.I'd just like to say that the colour distribution - or rather, the lighting distribution, speaks to me. It fills the room with so much more than I can actually see. There's this bottom-to-top gradient from light to dark, which makes it all very dramatic. There's kind of a triangle composition, which uniquely andconveys the motion of the heat escaping towards the top of the room. Without having to speculate on the ladders, I can already guess it's vented in some way. And that's amazing. I don't think I've ever seen attention to this kind of detail in an non-animated or non-3D environment. Bravo!And there's also that luminous glowing effect that I always fall for. And that involves all kinds of sublety of colour changes which comes with natural glowing.As subtle and amazing most of the lighting is, the left flame isn't. It'sbright compared to the rest. It does provide some sort of balance to the hammer. But it's almost blending me. Not enough to look away from the sparks on the far left. with all of the other lights having a certain style and depth of rendering, the sparks stick out as the opposite of subtle. I don't know what it would loom like without the spark lines and only the spark from the tool (and maybeof the other sparks included afterwards), but I personally don't like it the way it is now.After a while, I noticed that there is onlything that doesn't quite follow the rest of the perspective... the way my eyes are used to metal bars like I think I see them on the shelf on the top right, they look tilted towards me and if I was a dwarf, I might want to wear more than this simple head protection.I wonder what the dwarf is doing. I know nothing about forges, but is there a reason why he uses his ungloved hand for the hammer - and what is he actually doing with the hammer? All I see is heated coals.There's one final thing I'd like to add. There was something bothering me with the colours. Now, I have come to think that there's a colour contrast. It could very well be my screen being poorly calibrated (which is to say not calbrated at all), but while most of the foreground is held in warm red, orange and yellow shades, some of the flames and the doorway in the background seem to go slightly into green - a vicious combination that I try to avoid unless I intend a massive contrast.The details are amazing. You might not see it, but I think you're getting even better. I can see that this was done very thoughtfully. I look forward to seeing more of you - randomly, as always.