As you might have guessed from my switching back to the applauding Not-Crispin avatar, I've finished another cover illustration! Woo-hoo! Here's a very small section of it.

This is for the first book in the series by  Rathacat which was originally published in 1983. I read it back then, when I was 9, and instantly fell in love with the world and the characters. I'm grateful as heck to Sheila at Imaginator Press for giving me this job. This was just an absolute thrill to paint. And rather stressful, too, since the artist who illustrated the last printing was excellent and I had an attack of I'm-not-worthy.

Once again, Bartleby modeled for me, and very patiently put up with my shining a tiny flashlight at his face to figure out how to light Ratha properly.