Book Cover Illustrations

Many an old joke is based on the notion that the difference between a professional and an amateur is that the pro says, “First, let’s settle on a price.” To some extent that’s true. There are any number of scam artists about these days who try to get artwork for free. After an illustrator has […]

People regularly ask what software and hardware I use for creating book cover illustrations and other artwork for magazines, CD covers, and interior illustrations in books. So I will digress in this installment of my blog to answer those questions. I come from a background of working with pen and ink as a technical writer/illustrator. […]

I’ve put the new illustrations I’ve created over the last month (plus some reworked older pieces) online for inspection. A few pictures have cover rights sold (including the new cover for R. L. Brush’s Jesse Steele and the Secret of Otherworld), but most of the other illustrations have all rights still available. The URL: http://duncanlong.com/preview/ […]

Sometimes a book cover art project just clicks and runs smoothly from beginning to end. This book cover design was one of those.