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This image is another CD double cover I designed and rendered for a talented progressive guitarist from the UK- Tony Drake.
This was my first serious commercial painting of a dragon, as most clients want me to go with more subtle fantasy. Mr. Drake wanted the dragon to have an intelligence but also wanted him capable of snapping one's head off.
The castle is made up, but hopefully has that Scotland castle look. The checkered water was one of the most tough things I've done. I was going to do try to do it on a 3D program, but I'm not that knowledgeable in 3D programs and after not getting the results I wanted; I trashed it and simply drew it in, then painted each square... simple one -point perspective but VERY time-consuming.
The guitar is an Ibanez and the amps are Marshall amps.
The real image is over 4000 pixels wide... this is only 600, so it's about 1/7th the size of the original.... I put a lot of detail into the mermaid and the wizard.... but this can not be seen in this piece. With all the detail, especially in the water and the dragon skin, the piece took me easily 75+ hours to do, probably way more if you add additional art for the inserts, back cover and collectors cards that the guitarist ask me to do.
Unfortunately, the album was never finished; Yet, it is true that roughly 9 out of 10 proposed movies that are planned, never get through production. I guess this was one of those similies, the only difference; I finished my end of the work. I still think this is one of my better pieces, so I thinking that the 100 plus hours that it took me to create this and all the inner sleeves and cards did not go for naught. Perhaps it did. Though I would have rather left out Peter Pan.
