Artwork – Dragon
The cover for the 19 Nocturne Boulevard episode Dragon. So much fun doing a dragon! Especially when such lovely high quality source material was available for me to use. I’ve turned it very McKeansian again — I see I shall have to make a conscious effort to steer away from that next cover. When I did the dragon, Julie asked for a knight, a chicken, a potion and bowl of pea-pods. There was only room for two however. I modified the brilliant Rooster image to be somewhat cartoony like the tradition drawing of the knight, which makes the cover a bit more playful (the play has a lot of humour in it). I was dissapointed to have to eat into the basic cover design to make it work — feels like a bit of a failure. Overall, I really like this cover!
Here’s the dragon without the type and other bits of artwork:
Licencing and Attribution
I used a number of Creative Commons licenced photograpic elements and here’s the attributions:
- Dragon
- Dragon © Copyright wili_hybrid / Ville Miettinen.
Used under licence: CC-BY-NC - Dragon’s Eye
- Golden Eye © Copyright OakleyOriginals.
Used under licence: CC-BY - Dragon Hide Texture
- London Zoo – Reptile House – Rhinoceros Iguana © Copyright ell brown / Elliott Brown.
Used under licence: CC-BY - Additional Scale Texture for Dragon Wing
- Reptile #1 © Copyright ecparker / Evan Parker.
Used under licence: CC-BY-NC - Rooster
- Chicken Crossing the Road © Copyright Bob Jagendorf.
Used under licence: CC-BY - Knight
- File:Gothic armor 2.jpg
Used under licence: Public Domain - John Speede’s Map of Chichester
- Used under licence: Public Domain
- Paper Texture
- Aged paper texture © Copyright ~Essence of a Dream~.
Used under licence: CC-BY
Thank you to all. It makes creating artwork so much more fun to be able to use these fantastic resources.