Artist's commentary
Dragon Rider
A dragon-user elf and her beloved horse (dragon). The long hammer-like thing in her hand is a dragon training stick (something like ones that guys who train elephants around India often have). A character like this MUST have a skimpy costume these days, am I right? The author says it's お約束=cliched, but this is the best translation I can come up with. I wanted to create a different atmosphere for this work, so I consciously changed the use of colors. I think that it turned out pretty good.