More coins

[ffutures]

Playing with some more effects and different pictures, mostly by frostfox - think I'm beginning to get better results. I'm starting to think in terms of a collage of a lot of different coins for the cover, rather than all the same, so none of this is entirely wasted effort.

I hope.




Tiamath's flag on copper coin (one of my pics for a change)


Great Sea Serpent, gold coin. I rather like the lines but if I was planning on doing it bigger it would need to be neatened up considerably.


Dragon's Egg on copper coin. Needs a bit more background detail.



Later - added another Great Sea Serpent variant

Comments

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

I really like the first one, both the image and the colour/texture. Were I to revise the image, I'd enlarge the dragon and place it centrally over the mountain. The Great Sea Serpent coins are both very busy, with the circles in particular drowning out the serpent. The dragon's egg image is lovely and works very well. I honestly don't think it needs a lot of background detail; they are after all old coins, and old coins tend to be quite simple in design.

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Re the penny - remember it's the flag, so the layout would be horizontal rather than vertical. Originally the flag was just supposed to be a mountain, no dragon, but I persuaded Jo to let me have a little one so that I could legitimately have references to ships "flying the dragon flag" in the pirate adventure (arrr!)