A whole year!?!
Sorry for being a stranger but life gets in the way you know, however I still use Verve once or twice a week (or even more) at work. Actually, I try to never paint with Photoshop.
Here's my newest Vervation; It's called "Mirror Neuronics" and is a Christmas gift for my most dearest friend, a math professor and computer science researcher who desires to leave her mark in the AI universe. There are a few hidden personal meanings within this piece and symbolism as well, including a coded message, but the overall scene depicts this gifted woman studying and pondering her futuristic creation while it learns from its creator.
The image in the screen is not a physical reflection but augmented reality which has been superimposed upon an android/robot who, using both AI and deep learning (as subset of machine learning and a subset of AI) to exactly mimic the viewers movement on the other side of the screen, a perhaps actually learn to become like it's fleshly analog (or has that already happened...
) All a very strange concept to paint but the result of some personal free-thinking. I'm guessing 10-14 hours over the last week were invested. Well worth it to paint my muse.
I used MoI3D to create the basic image of the server racks in the background as well as the position of the screen's frame. The perspective, which comes across as odd, was semi-intentional to give a feeling that (you) are in a submissive vantage point of what you are witnessing. I've tried similar distortions before at an attempt to induce disorientation and vertigo (if that is possible without being obvious) but I'm lousy with perspective by eye unless I use 3D assistance.