Book Cover Illustrations

Often it’s necessary to create concept sketches for a book cover design (or game, movie, or other art project). The basic purpose of concept art is to assure that everything is on the right track before it speeds toward completion. Concept art generally lacks the refinements to be found on the final project. Quick and […]

The human eye is a very sensitive organ. Coupled with our brains, the human “optical system” is capable of perceiving amazing changes and differences between objects. And the eye/brain is quick to spot a “mistake” in terms of line or light. I have often been amazed that just the change of a single degree in […]

I’ve recently started an illustration project that will create character portraits and other artwork for John Chadwell’s book Werewolves of New Idria (which is also becoming a screenplay that Chadwell is coauthoring with Ron Shusett, the writer/creator of the Alien franchise as well as Total Recall). The basic plot follows several characters through history, from […]

I recently had the privilege of creating a cover for Dr. Sharon Presley’s new book Standing Up to Experts and Authorities (The Solomon Press). Presley received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center where her mentor was Stanley Milgram. (Milgram who created the classic experiment which shows that […]