Book Cover Illustrations

Shakespeare’s Ophelia is one of the tragic figures in Hamlet. She’s scorned and ridiculed by Hamlet: Hamlet: …I did love you once. Ophelia: Indeed, my, lord, you made me believe so. Hamlet: You should not have believed me…I loved you not. Ophelia: I was the more deceived. Ophelia eventually crumbles under the unfolding tragedy around […]

Another three illustrations from the flying monkeys who fling electrons at the screen here at the Duncan Long Studio. As usual, these illustrations were pretty much created for my own enjoyment, though all three are spinoffs from ideas or materials for actual book cover projects (but which were never used). Hopefully they’ll eventually find homes […]

Stephen Quayle’s Angel Wars is selling like hotcakes and continues to garner great interest and some nice reviews (like this one at Prophecy in the News.) Here’s the cover illustration I created for the book: I also had the good fortune to be able to do the layout not only on the cover but also […]

Rob Guthrie’s Black Beast: A Clan Of MacAulay Novel arrived today. The colors turned out beautifully with my book cover illustration (that’s not always the case and it’s a thrill when the print looks as good or better than the screen version of the artwork). And I appreciate the author taking the time to sign […]

I recently suggested that rather than plotting growth of the S-curve on graphs, they might possibly be better explored by plotting them through 3D. Sadly the only response (other than humorous) mentally pictured the rotation on one axis. Things become more interesting when an object is rotated on more than one axis and moved through […]

Folks often ask if I use paints (or ink) to produce my book and magazine illustrations. Short answer: No. But I started as an actual painter and later as a pen-and-ink illustrator. But digital is so much cleaner and faster (plus there’s that undo key), that there’s just no contest between it and real paint. […]

The “Ghost Train” illustration (shown above) will be featured in the upcoming “Nightmare on Maniac Station” presented by the Railway Museum (in the Netherlands). This will be part of the Museum Night 2011 in which seven museums in Utrecht will participate. According to the organizers, my illustration “captures the mood perfectly” for the Railway Museum’s […]

Another three illustrations my flying monkeys and I created during our leisure time this weekend. As usual, these were all three created for my own enjoyment, but with the hope of eventually selling them as well as to round out my portfolio with a few new pieces of artwork. Originally I was going to place […]

Douglas E. Richards informs me that his book Wired (which I did the cover illustration for) is now a best seller, climbing to seventh position at Amazon.com in the techno-thriller division. While there’s always an element of luck to publishing, I’m sure the success of this title reflects the author’s hard work in self promoting […]

As I am often want to do on the weekend, I take time off from doing illustration work to do (drum roll please) — more illustration work. However, if my time permits, these weekend illustrations are for my own enjoyment initially, with an eye toward their eventually being sold to publishers or at the very […]