You have it all wrong cover designer a kelpsie drowns people and has sticky skin THEY DO NOT BREATHE FIRE!!! Furthermore they are a shape shifting water dwelling spirit. They are also known for eating people and kids.
Well… it is a blue horse… and a horse… so I guess that is something?
You are right though, my first thought was ‘Kelpies dislike fire, they don’t breathe fire.”
My second thought was “Urk! This is terrible.”
EricL
10 years ago
That smoke really disturbs me, as does the “fire”. There seems to be no real connection between the two. The fire looks more like yellow-red flowers and the smoke looks like ink smudges. Disturbing.
If your ass was on bleeding fire, you’d be questing for a Kelpie to put it out, too.
Geeeeze, that cover…it’s doozie-riffic.
Catie
10 years ago
I believe this was at least in some parts a photograph before the designer went filteriffic on it. And that photoshopped fire, ugh… I think I came across a tutorial on how to make that particular “fire” effect a while ago.
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You need a “art by Stevie Wonder” tag, methinks.
lol
I think if I were a kid, and presumably a member of the target audience (it DOES say “Celtic Kids,” after all), this cover would terrify me.
My first reaction was, predictably, “What the hell am I looking at?”
Same.
Could be worse. The lad could be wearing a kilt.
And no underwear!
You have it all wrong cover designer a kelpsie drowns people and has sticky skin THEY DO NOT BREATHE FIRE!!! Furthermore they are a shape shifting water dwelling spirit. They are also known for eating people and kids.
Well… it is a blue horse… and a horse… so I guess that is something?
You are right though, my first thought was ‘Kelpies dislike fire, they don’t breathe fire.”
My second thought was “Urk! This is terrible.”
That smoke really disturbs me, as does the “fire”. There seems to be no real connection between the two. The fire looks more like yellow-red flowers and the smoke looks like ink smudges. Disturbing.
And . . . why is the boy bleeding out of the butt?
Forget I asked – I really don’t want to know.
Neither do we!
I looked at this three times before I saw the fire-breathing stallion. No Kelpie in sight, however, no matter how hard I look…
Like others said, it took me a while to figure out what the heck I was looking at.
Also, some of those fires look more like explosions.
I figured it out!
The boy is a sorcerer. He is casting his level 9 spell for the day ‘Explode Kelpie Nose’. The trees are just collateral damage.
Cover go boom!
…Pseudo-humans only survivors! 🙁
If Michael Bay designed book covers…
If your ass was on bleeding fire, you’d be questing for a Kelpie to put it out, too.
Geeeeze, that cover…it’s doozie-riffic.
I believe this was at least in some parts a photograph before the designer went filteriffic on it. And that photoshopped fire, ugh… I think I came across a tutorial on how to make that particular “fire” effect a while ago.