Black Flame of Calamity

When playing Monster Hunter 3U, I was a bit disappointed at first that some of the epic monsters that I'm familiar with aren't in the game...
Then I fought the Dire Miralis.
It was so striking that I had to make some fanart.

This started as a speedpaint, but it had potential to be rather epic, so I decided to keep working on it longer.
Getting the sense of scale right was the biggest challenge with this piece, since the Dire Miralis is very large.
In the end, this one probably took around 15 hours, so it was still much faster than my longer pieces, but I'm quite pleased with the result. The lighting and coloring were a lot of fun to work with, too.

Sadly, because of some network issues, the whole process for this piece wasn't recorded on Livestream, but I'll definitely be streaming some more speedpaints on there, in the future.