Lots of new images at Kephra Design

I've added a batch of new images to the galleries of the Kephra Design website.

Firstly, there are some images of a Gryphon I've been working on for a canvas and acrylic painting. The Gryphon was hand-drawn with pencil on paper. I then scanned it in and the resulting images and started playing around in Photoshop.

One image is an attempt to create something that looked like an old manuscript drawing.

The other is the beginning of the composition for the painting (just trying to get some idea of colours and shading).

You can view the Gryphon images in the Illustration Gallery.

I have also added a new section to the Kephra Design Gallery entitled Maps.

There I have placed a selection of maps I am working on for a fantasy novel. The map is of an entire planet that is around 36,000 kilometers diameter at the equator. There is a detail version, one showing ocean currents, and one showing my rather unscientific Plate Tectonics for the world. I've still got a lot of work to do with these maps.

Much thanks is due to "Maestro Mapboy" Russell Kirkpatrick, who has helped me an immense amount with this map. If it wasn't for Russell's assistance rivers would be running backwards, mountain ranges would be all over the place, and this map would be nowhere near as 'plausible' as it is (except the tectonics, that is).