GENTLE DRAGON FIRES
Type Zine Illustration
Publication Strange Horizons Magazine
Story Gentle Dragon Fires
Art Director Dante Luiz
Illustration for Gentle Dragon Fires by T. K. Rex and Lezlie Kinyon for Strange Horizons. The illustration depicts the walled City of Birds, its protagonist Let, and other important aspects of the prose.
Concept 1: Abstraction of the weighing of blood price vs soul price.
Concept 2:“An enormous dragon, not quite solid, not quite real, but there, and orange, and scintillating, perches on the roof across the egg from her.”
Concept 3:“The City of Birds will stand behind a wall forever, and the land beyond will burn until there’s nothing left at all.”
Digital sketch used as guide for the traditional base drawing.
Final trad-digital illustration in full color and detail.