A white dragon with wings outspread flies away from the viewer, bearing a reader on his back, into an evening sky. Below soars a gold dragon with white wings, barely visible.

Saturday Art Cover Reveal: New Cover for Revised DRAGONWING

Hello everyone! This month ends with another Saturday Art, featuring another Cover Reveal, once again by the talented Midnight Rose, and this time for book two in the Return of the Dragonriders Trilogy, DragonWing. (You can see DragonBirth's cover here.) I did, in fact, follow through on having the revised DragonWing ready by November, even …

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Saturday Art Cover Reveal: New Cover for Revised DRAGONBIRTH

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another Saturday Art. This time I have a new cover for DragonBirth, with art by the awesome MidnightRose. In case you haven't heard yet (which isn't unlikely; I don't think I've even mentioned it on the blog yet), I decided the Return of the Dragonriders trilogy could use some revisions. …

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Character Art of Noren and Elninya (Art for the Return of the Dragonriders Trilogy

I made this picture of Noren and Elninya with a friend (who drew the man for me, since I am really bad at drawing humans) a while ago. It matches this picture of Silmavalien and Minth. Noren found Elninya's egg shortly after Silmavalien found Minth's, but Elninya did not hatch until much later (just as …

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Silmavalien and Minth (Art for DragonBirth, Book One in the Return of the Dragonriders Trilogy)

It's been about a month since my last post, so here is a post for a piece of art I did quite a long time ago! Actually, I did it along with a very kind friend, who drew the picture for me, since I am not very good at drawing faces! In fact, I am …

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Dragonsong Vale (Art for the Return of the Dragonriders Trilogy)

Hi. Some of you may have heard that I've been working on a coloured pencil piece for a while now. It's not quite perfect. If I'm to get much better, I'm going to need to use slightly higher quality paper, since the paper I'm using is too inconsistent to allow for really smooth application of …

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