I’ve got a new render that popped into my head. It’s probably something that’s been done may times before — I may have even had a sword & sorcery novel in the past with a similar cover. Novice wizard opens a book and magic rises from the book into the air in front of an amazed wizard.
So here is my realization of it:
Feel free to let me know what you think.
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Very nice. I’m not sure what the relationship is between the gold magic and the blue magic, though.
Also, I hope you don’t mind me commenting on your old posts. I just found your blog and am starting to go through them.
Not a problem.
Mostly, the two different colors are because I wanted two different colors. At the point I made this, I was not thinking of a back story for how magic works in that world or what was actually in the book except “magic”.