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This painting is of Leonard the Dragon Rider and Rhos the Wyvern, the creations of the artist Lindsey Burcar, and Leonard. This A LONG labour of love painting this thing. This fanart piece took 18 months to complete, the original frame-size of this piece was 13.5 feet wide, and 17.7 feet high.

Why so big? Well, that's because I was unaware of just how big the canvas was when I was painting it as I tend to work down to the pixel level when painting, and was unsure why every time the file took so long to save every time I worked on it. I even had to split the canvas into two parts while working, one for Rhos, and the other for Leonard himself.

To put this size a little better into size reference, the largest brush on Photoshop is 2500 pixels. This canvas dwarfed the largest photoshop brush, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is 2.5 feet high by 1.7 feet wide. You could fit 8 and a bit Mona Lisas height wise and 7.9 Mona Lisas width-wise. or 2 of George Stubbs' Whistlejacket height-wise, and just under two Whistlejackets wide.

This is painted in the style of the old master Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, and my aim has been trying to make something Rembrandt himself would’ve painted had Rembrandt himself been alive in the modern era.

In an earlier concept, Leonard would have been holding a green apple as Rhos doesn’t like red ones,but this was changed to the sword in the piece because I couldn’t figure out how to paint an apple in the style, hence why the Cat Apple piece is in my gallery in the first place (it was too shiny for the style shown here).

I freaking love fantasy genre stuff, and I wanted to paint something that would appear legitimately in universe, perhaps something that would’ve been painted for a noble family, or even as a status portrait.
Background references Alexandre Calame’s Souvenir de la Handeck, (1859).