Speedpaint.133 Basilisk Wyrm (commission)

Damn guys, I don't get commissions like these very often, but they are tons of fun! Instead of being asked to draw a specific character, I was asked to draw something akin to concept art for this specific creature; the great basilisk wyrm (imagine basilisk crossed with wyvern)
Music: Mattia Cupelli - soundtrack 6
• Epic Emotional Soundtr...
Tomás Luis de Victoria - AmicusMeus
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Tomás Luis de Victoria - Caligaverunt Oculi Mei
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Time recorded: 4 hours 15 min
Programs used: Photoshop elements.10, quick time player, final cut pro

[@dragensol]

Absolutely beautiful. Stunning. Love the pose and the way the creature is enormous compared to the castles and the tiny houses by the lake.

[@unsettled3943]

Jealousy**

[@neuronox9245]

Woah.

[@Balmangal]

I experienced a visual and aesthetic pleasure

[@SkeletorEllen]

So beautiful and awesome art with a marvelous music! I really like the music. Thank You so much for Submit your art and the music your listen. P.D: Sorry for my English.

[@Trillin09]

Skeletor Ellen Its okay Practice makes Progress!

[@user-nf5ew9pw8s]

Мои глаза вытекли от этой потрясающей работы! ^-^ прост никак не перестану восхищается этим художником Кстати, лайк если тоже русский :Р

[@basil_leaf7036]

that dudes using those hills as a chair lol, just chillin

[@ramenwolf13]

Everything about this piece is incredibly epic! So amazing and awe inspiring. Especially paired with the music the whole scene gives this feeling of depth and movement, the event is happening right before our eyes. It makes me want to know what the story is, what`s going to happen- what did happen. It`s like you`ve created a mirror right into another world and it`s incredible. How alive and grand everything feels is perfect, I really have few words to describe how much I love this amazing scene. Thank you for sharing it with us and thank you to the commissioner! This by far has to be one`ve my favourite artworks it is so epic and wondrous. From the movement to the atmosphere to the sheer skill and vision, you have created a masterpiece.

[@Darlnezz]

The ground shook suddenly as the trees began to swing and the animals run in panic, the mountain that been laying there for so long began to move, slowly rocks cracked as something was coming, something was rising out of the natural stonework. All sound seemed to fade as the mountain split apart and a creature, so large it made every human feel puny and tiny began to rise. Whatever it was, it was huge, big... and it was breaking free from its slumber. The humans watching gazed in awe and terror as this huge creature rose and as they gazed into the creature's hollow gray eyes they all made one final gasp as they turned into perfect stone. The world turned still as the creature had risen and with a heavy movement of its wings, it took to the skies leaving the puny man and creatures that saw it's eyes to forever stand in petrification, flying somewhere hopefully away... from all life that it would taint into stone. Or something along those lines, for what happened? Either it awoke from it's millenia long slumber or somebody awoke it. For what is going to happen if this do happen? Well I guess something along what would happen if Cthuluhu and the elder gods awoke, except everyone turned into stone instead. At least where it can be seen.

[@ramenwolf13]

[@s-t-s-er7552]

Wow love the feel of this peice your art and skill is just marvelous!!❤❤

[@foxtrot-roleplays8815]

How tall do you figure that thing is? (I'm guessing at 2300 meters from upper wing tip to ground) great work in any case! (I love the bits hanging/falling from it)

[@ssaw_uthere]

one word. howthefrikingheckdoyouhaveenoughpatienceandskilltositthroughhoursandhoursofpainstakingdrawingthatintheendlookssoincrediblethatitlegittakespeople'sbreathaway.

[@Remarin]

Because making the image on the screen look very close to the image in your head is the bestest drug out there 🎨💊💉

[@Darlnezz]

THis was really fun to watch! x3 Amazed at how you made this! x3

[@indigo8942]

Absolutely gorgeous!

[@GraystripeK_Lexi]

Whoa this is amazing, I love this so much! You always put so much detail into your art its so cool!

[@robitobi13]

So beautiful I love it😍👍

[@olessyacv2092]

wonderful digital painting!!!

[@midnightfedora]

I am never going to get over the thrill of watching your art take shape

[@mollybulund690]

OMG this is AWESOME!!!

[@qwyn_]

This is amazing

[@SpaceeeAb]

Your art is amazing, I think you have great talent thanks for making videos to show the amazing charters you draw I really love them. By just whachting your videos I learned so much, thank you!

[@rainingdragons70]

HOW JUST HOW

[@Wolfpelt24]

Awesome! You make it look so easy

[@noopa5229]

Amazing!

[@katherinecabrera6868]

Que maravilloso :'0 y que buena música

[@WillowSerpine]

That's so pretty :3

[@marakita666]

I'm in love with your art :(

[@mimi_mia04]

Coni Neko :3 why r u sad..:(

[@mimi_mia04]

THAT IS AMAZING!!!!!!! I don't even have a tablet! Lol

[@Nalsara]

The second and the third music are perfect

[@mangledsav]

I feel like the music from the soundtrack from the game Advent Rising would be so fitting for your Speedpaints! i recommend the soundtrack so much! i love your art too tysm for letting us all get to see the process of you draw uwu

[@tiki4677]

How do you come up with environment ideas to put a character or creature in? Some reason I struggle with that most along with posing a character. It just seems to come easy to everyone else ahaha. Love the creature! And his whole realm. :)

[@Remarin]

Phox Thank you!! And what I did before even thinking of what I'll be doing, was to go on a reference hunt :0 I collected like 15 different photos of "epic" looking mountain ranges (googling terms like "great mountain" or "dark mountain") and had all different kinds of colors, compositions etc. I picked out the ones you see at the beginning around the canvas since they would possibly fit the direction I wanted to go in. And started by simply taking a weird-shaped brush and did some random shapes. But back in my mind I also knew what other art with this kind of subject would look like, so I for example knew roughly where the horizon-line should be. Thus I recommend keeping an eye out for art that is similar to what you someday want to achieve yourself, keep maybe a collection of your favourites, either on social media or in a folder. That way you'll be building your visual library, and have more tools to work with when thinking of ideas :>

[@sevlo7771]

Hot damn!

[@icerozex]

I made this my background, its just- SO GOOD 😤😤😤 INCREDIBLE, AMAZING, TALENTED ART OF DRAGONS. I'm done now, thank you for your time.

[@sissoory]

Let me just put a like on one of the most stunning speedpaint I ever see ~ ♪

[@maxavi134]

You're such a big art inspiration to me, you have no idea. I wish I could do HALF as well as you did on this. But for now, I physically cannot do something like this, because right now I draw on a shitty old dell tablet with my finger on a crap program. One day I will commission you, one day I will be half as good as you, and hopefully one day I'll be as amazing as your art. Thank you for inspiring me and thousands of others 💙

[@Vexi220]

Master!

[@ironically_iconic9848]

When I see your art I don't know whether to be inspired or just give up 😂

[@blue_fox4133]

Cute lizard.

[@Remarin]

🐍💕

[@bananakitofinternetclan8350]

Adorable.

[@nihiloss1]

i love rendering illustrations because i almost never see them and i'd like to get into rendering myself!!

[@NachtCaraticus]

Oh man Photoshop Elements! Haha I haven't seen that program in yeaaars

[@sabinasafinam-9426]

f*ck man it's beautiful

[@tentacledaddy]

Love u

[@EndsFunnies]

Ledgendary

[@lentite2662]

Is it your work to do those amazing drawings or is it just because you like it ?

[@Remarin]

A little bit of both?? I do get paid to draw these commissions and I try finish one commission at a daily basis, you could call it freelance work (though getting commissions like this one here, is quite rare) but I currently wouldn't be able to live off of commissions alone. My prices would be too low for that. I could go ahead and just jump to a more serious price-range, but I'm more comfortable with changing things gradually, bit by bit. Plus I live at home still, so I'm in no hurry to make it into a real job. But I also like doing it very much ;> it's been my number one source of practice and exercise for many years

[@dengosodawg]

Usually its prey animals that have eyes on the sides of their heads... what hunts that beast?! Never mind I probably don’t want to know... Anyways it’s fantastic, I love your work!

[@Remarin]

Thanks! Though I‘m not sure how well that rule applies to giant ancient reptilian creatures :0c would you consider a T-rex to have rather front faced or side faced eyes for example? Plus this dude has a couple of extra eyes down the neck as well, so we might even have some spider DNA (im bullshitting, but why not?)

[@molol_potions5267]

Anyone get elder scrolls vibes from this?

[@INAI1NAIREBOOT]

Y E D

[@INAI1NAIREBOOT]

i watch hoping to maybe take notes and be like "hmm YeS this is how shade" and i just end up getting stuck in a video spiral

[@AltiTheFallen]

Welp, this is gorgeous! I have a question though, I began drawing three years ago, but I don't know how to do backgrounds like you do, could you maybe explain how to do that?

[@Remarin]

Thank you!! And don't feel bad if you're struggling, it took me so damn long to get more confident in doing backgrounds, and as long as you're not avoiding doing any at all, you're improving even if you don't notice it. And even still, this is the first time I really succeeded with doing a background that has the feel of being "epic/grand" so I'm still learning as well! And to explain how to do what I do now, I'll have to go through my growth process concerning backgrounds, so I'll be linking to a bunch of example pieces here For a while, all my background were just a mess of textures and patternd brushes, like: remarin.deviantart.com/art/Commission-SatomiSanosuke-490795094 It was basically my way of avoiding having to go through the struggle,,, smoke, textures, stuff like that, I was doing minimal amount of work. When I did try to do actual scenes, I still mainly depended on "plant-pattern"-brushes and effects to make anything look good: remarin.deviantart.com/art/Commission-ShiroTheOne-530393394 Then I slowly started to try digitally painting the background,, with varying results: remarin.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Oitekebori-575407270 remarin.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Seebaru-578510361 (using the correct colors is very important to make people think you actually know what you're doing :'0 so use reference! At the very least use reference for your color palette!!!!) I became more used to digitally painting with textured brushes that I still use today remarin.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Dexxus-591740682 And did some pieces where I simply focused on singular elements remarin.deviantart.com/art/Sketch-Commission2-0-Dareios-Ahearne-593619191 Cliffs, tree-bark, clouds,, if you know how to render some singular things, you can apply that skill to thousands of images. Along the way, I made some discoveries while doodling with pen too: remarin.deviantart.com/art/Thingie-7-657824707 remarin.deviantart.com/art/Thingie-8-663090706

[@AltiTheFallen]

Remarin thank you so much, I used to avoid trying to do really difficult backgrounds, but I just did one, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, thank you again for your advise

[@comradejaz6248]

:D

[@salamander1460]

Awesome! Which brushes do you use? It looks straight out of Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons!

[@salamander1460]

I'm also super impressed by your shading ability and the detail! This is stunning! I hope I can get this good someday.

[@Remarin]

Thanks! The brushes I've used in this piece come mostly from this pack: fav.me/d8u7n5i

[@salamander1460]

thanks : )

[@Vaeh_Bae]

+1 Sub

[@jasperyeary281]

Excuse me for asking, but what size and resolution canvas do you work on?

[@Remarin]

This piece was roughly 5350x2950 pixels in 300 dpi. (the weird numbers came to be by starting off from a 16:9 ratio (standard screen ratio) and then going up to the size I usually start out with 5000x5000 for my random artwork) I have only recently started paying attention to the ratio, since I was given the advice that when potentially showing your artwork to people working in the industry, you want your cinematic pieces to be in one of the standard proportions :0

[@jasperyeary281]

Thank you so much!

[@mimi_mia04]

Do you have a instagram?

[@Remarin]

Yeah, but I have a lot of trouble at keeping it active :'I I'm "rema_rin" there

[@mimi_mia04]

Remarin ohh. Well I'll go and follow you now :3

[@bluebiscuits]

Omg 😂 hiii

[@couchpotato-eb8pe]

wuh ein deutscher! :D (..oder deutsche?)

[@cheescrewbee1069]

Are you German? Bec. your drawing program ist german

[@Remarin]

There is more than one country that teach German in schools as one of the main languages 😎I was born and still currently live in Luxembourg, but I'm not even luxembourgish because both my parents are from Sweden ((French is also on of the main languages here, and since there are many foreigners who come to live here, it's not uncommon to know 5 languages (Luxembourg has it's own as well)

[@cheescrewbee1069]

Remarin Oh! Thats interesting, thanks! 😊

[@dornenschweif909]

German?

[@Remarin]

Luxembourgish, but I do speak German ;>

[@dornenschweif909]

Remarin I am German ÷>

[@genericusername8039]

Sorry but that is Not a Wyrm because Wyrms do not have Wings But it is a Definite Basilisk

[@geniuswithaj8816]

You better not by like 12 or something...

[@Remarin]

switch those numbers and you have my age, 21