Homage: 1984

The homage to Larry Elmore's cover for "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" is done ... and subscribers here get to see it before anyone else!

We’ve talked about Dragonlance a lot over the last couple of episodes … and I’ve always been a huge fan of Larry Elmore’s work. So I decided to tip my cartoony hat to his cover painting for the very first DL novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

I knew this was going to be challenging—first of all because the image is deceptively complex (there’s a lot going on in what at first just seems like a picture of three adventurers). Secondly because in order to do it justice, I had to not just get the figures right, I had to find a way to honor Larry’s inimitable style in my cartoony adaptation.

In the end, I think I did an okay job … but in my heart, I wanted to do even better. But that’s what happens when you try to walk in the footsteps of giants.

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