My first big client as a young Illustrator starting out in the early 90’s. Lots of great memories with this one. Expectations around it were low so there wasn’t a great budget on it, so it had to serve as both box cover and advertising. I really didn’t care, I was thrilled to land the job :) I recently did a Q&A for a group where I go into a little more detail about it HERE
Here’s the original pitch for the game. If I recall, there wasn’t really anything to work off of, just that it was a fantasy game with a dragon in it and they wanted an ad that was a traditional comic page to go along with it.
I was lucky enough to find the rough pencils I did as well as a copy of the inks before moving to colors in our old storage unit: