Every now and then, Fort Weyr will have "theme" issues; the
most recent one was "Fireside Tales", and I was asked to draw
riders around the campfire. I did about half the shading by hand
before realizing that trying to finish it that way would drive me
up the wall, and finished in Photoshop.

For anyone familiar with Fort Weyr characters, the folks on the cover are:
(starting at upper left & moving clockwise) Corky, V'lad, green Vayanth and
her rider S'relle, Weyrleader Z'del, N'konn, W'ki and G'estin. ^_^