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Lineart - ~JustArt27
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From Pliny the Elder's Natural History, 79 AD

The like propertie hath the serpent called a Basiliske: bred it is in the province Cyrenaica, and is not above twelve fingers-breadth long: a white spot like a starre it carrieth on the head, and setteth it out like a coronet or diademe: if he but hisse once, no other serpents dare come neere: he creepeth not winding and crawling by as other serpents doe, with one part of the bodie driving the other forward, but goeth upright and aloft from the ground with the one halfe part of his bodie:

he killeth all trees and shrubs not only that he toucheth, but that he doth breath upon also: as for grasse and hearbs, those hee sindgeth and burneth up, yea and breaketh stones in sunder:

so venimous and deadly is he. It is received for a truth, that one of them upon a time was killed with a launce by an horseman from his horseback, but the poison was so strong that went from his bodie along the staffe, as it killed both horse and man


This image started about a week ago on Easter Sunday. However, due to work, this one had to be put off until the subsequent weekend, to which I picked it up again, and I'll be honest here, I hated the color scheme I was using.

Bright pink and black. Yeah. I was going for a tattered punk chick look. Then it got to the rest of the scene, and I realized that whomever started pumping shrooms in the air vents should really knock it off. So this one went through a major revamp from the ground up, to which I nabbed a Slurpee and decided that I needed to actually create a character out of this.

The original title of the image is GOA's Zeal Row. It's the antagonist of a particular story. So I felt that if this was to be an antagonist, they should sample from some of the greatest mythological beasts to really build themselves.

Thus, seeing many humanoid statues in the scene, opted for the basilisk. Let's not forget that I'm also a huge fan of reptiles.


Photoshop CS2
Wacom Tablet
CG-Textures.com for background assets

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