Holy Tears

So, after quite some time, I've finished an entry for the monthly blender competition at the blender subreddit!
This month's topic was "ancient mythos", and since I had the idea for this image floating around in my head already, I created it for the contest

The concept was inspired by Isis' song "Holy Tears" - I'm not sure if it's obvious in the image, but the statue is supposed to be crying - and the tears (which are holy and magical of course ) let plants grow at the statue's socket. I thought of it as an acient statue of some ancient civilisation, stolen by plunderers and put into a dark corner in a monastery, where it's magic is forgotten.

Created in Blender 2.7 - I'm actually getting quite comfortable with cycles, nodes and all these "new" features
Textures from cgtextures or painted myself (first time I sucessfully tried texture painting, yay!), the statue is made with dynamic sculpting (also a first).

And of course it's not how I wanted it to be, but at least I finished in time! Also, some parts did turn out pretty well in my opinion