I'm receiving reports to ban this on the grounds that it is digital and kinda breaks the one big rule of this community. On one hand it looks like an in-game screenshot (to me at least, I don't really know much about Minecraft) but on the other hand, I think the original Kristoffer Zetterstrand artwork is a traditional oil painting on canvas
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My understanding is Kristoffer does oil on canvas with inspiration from video games and his works were put into Minecraft and digitally pixelized. Here's a side by side of the Minecraft one and the original oil painting:
Didn't people find the world in the background
Edit: they did
Seed finders are truly talented
Huh, never realized it was flipping me off
I can still see the Japanese-porn-style censoring though. Pixels the size of ||censored||!!
His art is so unique, fits so well in Minecraft even though it gets pixilated beyond recognition.