File:DefenderOfTheCrown.jpg

Cover scan of Amiga game Defender of the Crown.

The cover art of Defender of the Crown for Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 was put together by Peter Green Design and painted by Ezra Tucker, a renowned illustrator who has worked for Walt Disney and Universal Studios. He has won several awards and his work can be found in museum exhibitions and Fortune 500 collections.

Randy McDonald, responsible for art direction, design, and production for Cinemaware's first four games concludes in an interview that "Peter Greene or I would do a sketch of generally what we wanted for each cover. I went to Western Costume in Hollywood, which for many decades was the giant in the costume industry there, and rented costumes for the types of ”look” we had settled on for each cover. We hired models and brought them into Peter’s large photo studio, where we set them up in the costumes I had rented, posed as closely as possible to the way we wanted them to be illustrated."

The supposed artist, according to Randy McDonald, was supposed to be a Greg Winter - but eventually Ezra Tucker ended up being the final artist for the cover art.

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1. No free equivalent.: Kellyn Beck has released no such images into the public domain, and a replacement image could not be created that would adequately provide the same information.
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    1. Copyright holder: That would be Cinemaware, the maker of the game. I don't remember where I got this image from, but I asked for permission to use it first.
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       1. Defender of the Crown: It's fair to use it in this article because it is the cover of the subject of the article.

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