I enjoyed creating this illo - simple premise and I liked the feel of the warm/arid environment and the icy blue drake. I wanted to frame the drake really clearly against the hazy sky, and ended up putting a fireball casting mage in the FG to get your attention (also I thought it would be nice to contrast the icy drake magic)
...my personal fave is the poor sucker who gets iced downhill, meanwhile the elf ranger is confidently sliding downhill backwards and turning and loosing arrows as she goes ..which she can do because she is an elf ..and better than you. And she knows it.
Enjoy!