Apparently a wizard's staff isn't the only thing with a knob on the end

[james_davis_nicoll]

Comments

[avram]

Painting the cloak as a flat black shape makes the illustration look cheap, like the artist was too lazy or incompetent to do drapery.

It could be done. You’d either have to do the whole illo flat-style, very graphic-designy, or put a lot of stuff in front of it to break up the space and add visual interestor, or…. But you’d be designing the whole illustration around the cloak.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Actually the illustration you're describing sounds much more interesting in general.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

You could also do most of the illo with a glossy finish and the cloak as matt, which would give it an air of 80s/90s paperback covers where they loved using cutouts and different paper stocks.