Talk:Shadows of the Master/@comment-24727077-20150618161745/@comment-29517617-20150619101342

Me too. His acryllic paints were so beautiful, mostly. There's maybe a few works where I think he could have done a bit better, one being the Ooze Toad in Secrets of Deltora. He even said to me once that he thought his work in that book was too rushed. Can you believe that???

For Star of Deltora he has painted it digitally. His publisher was also more strict on his designs this time. I kind of feel like that might be why we got a face portrait cover. They're popular to use on YA fiction books nowadays, so maybe they tried to follow the popular trend instead of asking him to paint another monster :) I am curious about the boat and isle, and the character's face doesn't look bad - at all.