This is one of my favourite images by Chris Achilleos, an illustrator I admire greatly. It shows a castle under attack being protected by a wizard. The dragon is a wizard who has transformed himself and is transfixed by the glow from the other wizards staff.
Chris always put a huge amount of detail in his work, and the images have a beautiful quality. He does a lot of airbrushing, a skill that seems to be a thing of the past. Photoshop and a graphics tablet have superseeded this.
I've met him in person he is a really great man! It is nice to see some people keep the old taditions alive and not resort to modern day technology, a trait i think more people should start taking on, turn off the power and take out a pencil!
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