Art, day one

[kerravonsen]

First entry for naarmamo

Fantasy NaArMaMo2006, day one: Fantasy icon. Based on my favourite cover for "The Blue Sword".

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Gorgeous colours!

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! (I wish my copies of Blue Sword had had that cover; mine were boring.)

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!
I wanted to make a "Fantasy" icon for a while, to complement my "SF" icon. That cover was on the top of the list as something to use for it.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I take it "The Blue Sword" is a book you like? I've never heard of it. But I definitely like the art.

[kerravonsen]

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. It's one of the handful of covers that I class as "one of those covers"; a book-cover which evokes the book so well that I keep on going back to look at it while I'm reading the book.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Hm, okay. I've only seen McKinley's interpretations of fairy tales. I think I'll read this one for comparison. Thanks.

[kerravonsen]

You're welcome!

blue sword

[kattekrab.livejournal.com]

I love that book! and the Hero and the Crown.
Haven't read either of them in years. wow. thanks :)

Re: blue sword

[kerravonsen]

8-)

Here from naarmamo

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. I flipped back and forth between your icon and the book cover a couple of times to see what you'd done. The intense colours are very much in keeping with the style of the other icons of yours which I've seen The border frames the image extremely well. Well done. :-)

Re: Here from naarmamo

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!