Book Cover Illustrations

I recently created several new illustrations each of which I hope will soon find a home on a magazine or book cover. It seems that I’m often able to spread my wings a little extra bit on these do-it-yourself digital paintings, allowing my imagination to wander where it happens to lead, with some often happily […]

First sketch for the robot design that I’m working on for an upcoming cover illustration for Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. ===================== In addition to creating cover illustrations for Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, Duncan Long has created artwork for a number of other presses including HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Moonstone Books, Enslow Publishers, and many […]

I got word today that Douglas E. Richards’ techno-thriller Wired has been getting “crazy-positive reviews.” To build up even more interest, the price on the Kindle version is being temporarily lowered to 99 cents — but only for a limited time. So if you want to pick up a real bargain and have a lot […]

I was asked late yesterday to do another cover illustration for Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. This will make my third cover with the publication :o) Can’t say more about the project now but I am pushing a deadline. Shown above is the illustration I created for the December 2009 issue of Asimov’s. And below is […]

I’ve been busy updating my book cover illustration portfolio (or perhaps “art galleries” is a better term for the maze of pictures I’ve created). “Under the Triple Suns” is an illustration aimed at rounding out my portfolio just a bit. As such it’s also a speculative “book cover” that as yet doesn’t have a client […]

Lawrence P. White’s science fiction novel Knights of the Chosen series (which I did the book cover illustration for — shown above) is now available in Kindle format from Amazon.com. The second in the Spirit of Empire series, this epic tale offers another good read. Check it out. If you like science fiction, you’ll enjoy […]

Here’s the going-to-print version of Book I: The Adventures of Dod by Thomas R. Williams. As readers may notice, the typefaces have undergone another transformation from those shown in my previous post about this book cover. The front cover illustration has remained pretty much the same with a “cut out” of the character’s head going […]

This was my weekend project — a speculative “book cover” that as yet doesn’t have a client interested in buying the illustration. But hopefully before too long it will find a buyer (and my experience has been that such artwork eventually finds a home — and I also have a whole lot of fun creating […]

Just thought I’d quickly post the finalized version of Joan of Arc (for Marcia Quinn Noren’s Joan of Arc: The Mystic Legacy). The key change from previous versions is in her hair. The razor-cut look I’d originally given her looked a bit too much like a punk (or to some goth) hairdo. After a whole […]

I just completed the artwork on book two in the The Adventures of Dod series of YA fantasy novels written by Thomas R. Williams. Like the first book, one of the key features in this illustration was the glowing sword; this time the weapon is held in the hands of a mysterious, hooded figure. The […]