@MaraJade
You look like whatever you look like in real life, or whatever you want to look like (within reason)
“driven by the unstoppable power of your imagination” remember? There are gender choices, but I can’t exactly have two cover illustrations.

I can see the pictures now, and holy moly, they’re fantastic. Much more detailed and vibrant than I anticipated. Does your artist receive payment for these? Don’t answer that if you don’t want to.

I particularly love the design for the first witch, the brawny gal with the mace. It’s as if the Wicked Witch of the West and She-Hulk were one and the same person. Very creative – give your artist a good kick in the pants.

And you mentioned the warlock with the book ‘n’ spear is the male PC? Then which is the female PC?

EDIT: Ah, didn’t see your latest post, Samuel.

@Saint_Nicholas
Thanks! Yeah he’s too good for me to not pay him:P over all I’m paying him around $300 for 12 illustrations. And the “warlock” is actually a demon hunter:P (a benevolent bounty hunter) there is a warlock, but I haven’t posted the illustration yet. Since the illustration with the demon hunter is the cover art, I didn’t see a need to make a version of the female MC.

@Samuel_H_Young
Good, your artist has great talent.

I wrote without thinking and just assumed the PC was either a warlock, wizard or witch – thanks for correcting me. I can tell you’re building an internal mythology. That’s excellent, and I look forward to more.

@Saint_Nicholas
Yes he does:P I’m definitely gonna go back to him for the next 7 sequels.

Yeah I am:P so much so that I’m thinking of making a glossary. And I’m glad you liked them:D

Ah perfect, i thougbt for a moment you go describe the pc. I prefer no description. Also great artist really deserve being paid

@MaraJade
Yeah I agree. And yeah I’m paying him nearly $300

@Samuel_H_Young those are really good!

@Redgrave
Thanks! I’m glad you like them.

@Samuel_H_Young Ah!! Much better!! I appreciate you actually taking the comments into consideration, and more than that, actually implementing changes!

@Redgrave Actually, no, Azog is not mentioned as being killed by Dain in the book. I was referring to just The Hobbit book, nothing else. The one time his name comes up in The Hobbit is when Gandalf says something to one of the others (Thorin, I think it was, although I would have to check the book to be sure) about Thror being killed in Moria by Azog.

@Galador
Of course :smiley: that’s what these discussions are for- it’s already making my book better.

@Samuel_H_Young Good! I like to hear that!

Hey guys, I’ve got another illustration finished! Lord Sarrivan the vampire! (and I should mention that the others are Venefira the witch assassin, the cover art, Hestia the witch assassin, and Illusia the witch assassin)

@Samuel_H_Young That looks great!! Once again, though, there is one thing bothering me. Which direction does the light come from? The shadows seem to be contradicting each other. The one that projects onto the side of the tower is angled upwards, whereas the one on the bottom of the reversed spire sort of thing (the pointy thing) has shadows going downwards. Of course, for this particular instance, I may just be looking at the picture wrong, and that can be rectified with a simple answer of where the light source is located with no changes made to the image.

At a second look, the vampire’s chin also seems to have this shadow contradiction.

Nice Samuel also I think that they should have stuck with the details of the book although it is canon for Legolas to be in there as he is the son of the king of Mirkwood which would make him the son of the elven king in the hobbit. Also I like how they mentioned The Witch King of Angmar and the men or Arnor sealing him away. But if they cut Beorn out of the Hobbit I will neuter them.

@Galador
They look fine to me. The light’s coming from the left.

@Beezlebub
Beorin’s in the book. and I think it’s perfectly fine for PJ to embellish it. after all, it is an adaption.

Yeah but it kind of takes away from the series overall. “Shrugs.”

@Beezlebub
hardly. He elaborated on things mentioned in the book

@Galador

It doesn’t mention it in “The Hobbit” (so you are right on that point), but Azog was killed by Dain before the events if “The Hobbit”. Unless you want to believe PJ over Tolkien :stuck_out_tongue:

I personally think that the film should follow the book (and other Tolkien books on Middle-Earth, for that matter) because I’m not a fan of stuff like Azog surviving, but I guess the film can’t be completely faithful to the books…

Well it did do it more justice then I thought especially adding little things like the WKOA being sealed away in his tomb.