Friday, February 02, 2007 |
A Trade in Serpents :: Sketch to Final |
Happy ground hog day! I just finished up this illustration for a Realms of Fantasy short story called A Trade in Serpents by Alan Smale. Look for in the June issue I believe. There are parts of this illustration I like, but all in all I wish I had a few more days to polish it up. Then again I could probably say that about any of my work.
“I would only add, that this Exporting of Felons to the Colonies, may be consider’d as a Trade, as well as in the Light of a Favour. Now all Commerce implies Returns: Justice requires them: there can be no Trade without them. And Rattle-Snakes seem the most suitable Returns for the Human Serpents sent by our Mother Country....”
Benjamin Franklin, writing as AMERICANUS in The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 9, 1751.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWp7GF9_KFDMhF4zs_lhjslHWQP88KRYtTkCxlcl4pe9hKTEjoEAuwmfU8sSKCgRB0B2EHFZhfGZqW_nMisDxEx-dO70R72DX73DQWlEyzWF4aypHGMSfZDLx8mryHhotxLmCJw/s320/TradeInSerpents_Sketch.jpg) Approval sketch
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhMdPD1ZrX2uhpjU6CIN-NoIeYq5Zv4e7wP12mhPXFHFE_ImR_B23pOn_ib-drRF1YWkYGvYQjpIt7RNEdBxnh5UA17eGCiQfOcNGb696HYsFl22NIr-3QtI69SUFRGc41zKR9PA/s320/TradeInSerpents_Small.jpg) Final Piece |
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