Cover for The Last Legend - Final

...and I can check another project off the list! The book cover illustration for The Last Legend by K. Writerly (available soon on blurb.com and lulu.com) is complete.

I rarely keep records of the exact time I spend on each piece, but I'm going to estimate that this took between 15-20 hours of hand painting in Photoshop. I am really in love with the new color mixer brush in CS5! All total I think I also created 6 new brushes for the texture work, which was quite a bit of fun to experiment with.

I'm pretty happy with the end result and I'd love to hear your comments.

Here's the finished illustration:


Here's the illustration with the book cover title, spine and flap design added in:


and here are a couple random detail clips: