Maybe not every artist likes or even tolerates art created with the help of AI.

I personally take stable diffusion, midjourney and all others out there as a Tool, not a competitor.

I would have never been able to create this with the skills I already have.

I created something like 50 images in the first run. Then I took images that came out best, moved and tweaked a little in Photoshop and brought it back to SD.

Inpainting some major issues, back to PS in two more runs.

Finally I resized it with SD, Inpainted details for the face, the tree roots, some parts of the horse and combined it in PS.

I am happe with the outcome, even there are some details I don't like (like the Legs of the horse and the man.

Took me overall 2,5 hours.