Red Sails in the Morning ~ cover art & design by AidanaWillowRaven

DAZ|Studio • Fantasy • posted on Oct 26, 2016

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Description

As most of my readers and followers have probably guessed, fantasy is my first love. Don't get me wrong, any good read can grab me. I enjoy creating covers for several genres for a wide range of ages and readers. However, this series has me really excited. Red Sails in the Morning, book one of The Great Wyrm Saga, (published by Azure Spider Publications) introduces some really amazing and creative characters. Ironically, portraying the antagonist on the front cover was much easier than the soldiers and ships in the middle ground. Even though they'd never be seen in detail, all of those little figures involved in their own actions was like crawling into a rabbit hole.

Blurb: In the east an ancient evil awaken. Two immortal dragons, Char and Cindar, stir from their centuries’ long torpor to seek vengeance on those who imprisoned them. Levet, the daughter of prophecy, struggles with her own role to play as the dragons rise. She must journey through the lands of men and sylns to learn the way of the islands and their customs. Jarvis, a human lord, rises in power. The human islands fall to his sword as he runs a campaign with ruthlessness and magic. The first novel in “The Great Wyrm Saga,” is a broad sweeping epic that plunges peaceful islands into war and returns to power an evil so terrible that neither Sylns nor men can stand up to it. ~

Don't forget to connect with Victoria Lynn Osborne online, too:

Azure Spider Publications website

Azure Spider Publications on twitter

Victoria Lynn Osborne on twitter

Victoria Lynn Osborne's website/blog

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Production Credits

Sshodans Cloaks M4

By Sshodan

$18.00 USD

Medieval_Koggen

By Dante78

$10.00 USD

DynCreator for DazStudio

By lola69

$8.00 USD

Comments (18)

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eekdog

8:23PM | Wed, 26 October 2016

Nice landscape bok cover design. Scene is thrilling.

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pregiato

11:40PM | Wed, 26 October 2016

Spectacular and excellent work, my friend! Greetings!

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mtdana

1:07AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Great composition and action!!! Also like the atmosphere!!! Nice one!!!

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Wolfenshire

1:08AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Wonderful looking cover.

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starship64

1:47AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Great cover.

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Freethinker56

3:09AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Outstanding!

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ontar1

5:00AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Fantastic cover!

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rbowen

6:18AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Excellent!

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Faemike55

9:22AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Great cover art and cool blurb!

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beachsidelegs

9:25AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

Wonderful cover love the detail :)

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cjn

10:44AM | Thu, 27 October 2016

fantastic

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flavia49

7:07PM | Thu, 27 October 2016

beautiful work

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HADCANCER

4:20AM | Fri, 28 October 2016

So good to see you post again. Since I use you as book recommender I really missed you. I had to flounder on my own and went on a buying spree and now have over a 50 book backlog in my ipad, so I have been resisting all the ads Amazon and Apple send me. I am amazed at the effect you got with DAZ. I try for reality and have not idea how you got that effect. I am new to DAZ so maybe there is a setting. In Poser which I know a lot better I might be able to match using the toon render, or do something in Photoshop. I like the little dragon you slipped in there. Dumb me would have had a huge dragon overlay at maybe 10% transparency. Also for some reason and I do not know if it would be appropriate I would have made the bad guys eyes glow in Photoshop. Having the bad guy on the cover of the first book is a little different. I hop you post a little more often....of course that would mean you had more work....smile

AidanaWillowRaven

12:21PM | Fri, 28 October 2016

Thanks for so many compliments. :D I have several more covers in the works, so keep a look-out. A lot of my work lately has been non-visual, like interior text layouts, editing, or website creation. But my love is in the cover art.

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farmerC

1:55PM | Fri, 28 October 2016

Exellent work.

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UteBigSmile

2:52PM | Fri, 28 October 2016

Excellent piece of Artwork!

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sandra46

10:10AM | Sun, 30 October 2016

great work!

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rustic01

6:58AM | Tue, 08 November 2016

Great piece of book illustration! No one ever really appreciates the amount of work that goes into this sort of work!

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K_T_Ong

12:19AM | Sun, 25 December 2016

I seriously thought at first this was a watercolor done by hand. Didn't know Daz Studio allows you to produce renders like this! Or did you render it first and then go over the rendered image using Photoshop or something? :)

Great composition overall. The figure in the foreground looks kind of androgynous, though. If not for his facial hair, I might have though he's a she!

AidanaWillowRaven

6:43PM | Wed, 28 December 2016

You are right. The render is first done in Daz then postworked in photoshop to look painted.

And he's supposed to look androgynous. He's an incubus demon. That's also how the author described him. :D