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Magazine cover for my publication class - I spent waaaay more time on the illustration than I did on the design, which was the whole point of the project |DI'm pretty excited about this class - we get to do a whole magazine on whatever subject we want. Which, for me, means there are a lot of cute mythical creatures in my future <3
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Woah! I have a dragon at home that looks almost exactly like the little amber one!!
Her name is Stephanya and she's a bit of a rebel, I suppose you get them in every family, but it's pretty tiring to come home and realise that she's having a fire-blasting competition with the coal-range, especially when we live in a wooden house. Anyway, any tips to help her calm down a bit?
Thanks
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Well at that age there's not much that can stem that youthful energy - but a nice long fly around the neighborhood in the morning and a sprig of dragon weed hidden in her food dish ought to leave her happily napping until you get home ;3
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Aah, thank you so much! I used to take her flying before the damn vet said I was probably making her hyperactive by doing that ... I mean, seriously! *shakes head* but it will be nice to do that again.
Luckily I feed her about half a cow every day, so the dragon weed should be fairly easy to disguise as just another tendon!
Many thanks
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I really like the concept and the baby dragons and griffin are so cute!
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XD Zoooh, I'd totally subscribe to that magazine!
If you ever finish making the magazine, make me a copy, and I will buy it! (100% serious) When I have an apartment, I would strategically place the magazine where visiting people would see it and be like, "Wtf mate?!" and I'd be like, "Oh, it's the spring issue, I figured I should expand my hobbies a bit," all casually.
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Haha, when I saw this thumbnail, I thought it was a real magazine. 
So, can I assume based on this that Narnian dollars are not doing as well as Middle Earth dollars? :3
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Well, the truth is that the long, harsh winters in Narnia make it very difficult for our delivery people to service the area - so we have to add on a bit of a surcharge for the inconvenience, of course |3
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This is quite an excellent illustration mister...or miss.
Done in photoshop?
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Thank you! It's a bit of Photoshop and a bit of Gimp |3
And it's miss X3
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Great cover.
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Thank you! =3 I did have trouble with that pesky title - I wanted it bigger so that there wasn't that weird pocket of empty space in the corner, but then the dragon would've been covering too much, and, of course, I worked too hard on that little guy to cover /him/ up X3
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Your welcome
Hehe, yes it can be a difficult "puzzle" to solve. In some cases some simply do let the text overlap the illustration on the cover but then to that print a clean illustration inside the book. I guess that is a win win situation for those who prefer to show the artwork without any distracting elements.
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