“The Singing Sword” Italian version book cover from the Jack Whyte Excalibur saga.
This is the third book ( the entire saga is composed by eight books ).
One day of work for the sword ( made in xsi ) and one for the rest ( photoshop ).
I spent hours to find good photographic references.

Here you have some work steps,
the photo of printed book to see how title is placed,
and some photographic references used at
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/The_Singing_Sword_photos.jpg

Cheers