Book Cover Illustrations

For years I’ve been working on a science fiction novel Wrong Side In. The story takes place in the near future and travels around the word with a little time hoping to boot. The central character is a juvenile delinquent at the beginning of the story and slowly is transformed by events and his own […]

I recently saw an article (that will go nameless to protect the guilty) which claimed that since Central Americans tended to like bright colors while those in North America on the average prefer muted colors, people living in the north were “fearful of bright colors.” Hello? Let me be clear: I’ve spent most of my […]

You see strange things in the murky depths when you go fishing late in the day. A wise fisherman knows not to talk about them, except perhaps to those who fish as he does. This is the “One That Got Away,” that mermaid sighted for just a moment, that lady of the lake who becomes […]

Thanksgiving Day here in the US… Not working on holidays is tough for me – I love doing what I do for a living. That said, this has been a great year in terms of having work to do, something many in the US can’t say this year. So I have much to be thankful […]

Sci-Fi Art Now continues to garner great reviews. The most recent is to be found at io9. And out of the several hundred images in the book, they chose two of my illustrations to display at their site – always a feather in the cap of an artist. Sadly, enough though they chose my artwork […]

I was conversing with a fellow graphic designer recently and mentioned how today we enjoyed the many benefits of DTP (desktop publishing). The designer was somewhat taken aback (with good reason – as noted below). And I realized that the term DTP is almost never used any more, having slowly vanished from the lexicon of […]

Those who follow the comments on this blog will recognize Rosanne Dingli’s name. She regularly offers sage advice and commentary, and I’m always interested to learn what she has to say about my work. Recently she created The Versatile Blogger Award for blogs that she says, “Are all fascinating, informative, funny, brilliant, and very enjoyable. […]

This is a sort of spin off from my book cover project for Dale Allan’s novel Me Not Not Into Temptation. Initially I did a sketch of the priest with his back to the viewer and one with his front — the latter being the one chosen for the cover since it was easy to […]

Every once in a while I create an illustration that I think is fantastic – only to discover I may be the only person on the planet that thinks it is great. This is one of those. When Stars Fall Down From the Sky has a story behind it. I imagined a jilted lover in […]

This is the preliminary cover illustration I did with red lettering for the title (which, tentatively, is the final version of the cover — all things subject to change in publishing) for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. For a closer look at what sort of symbolism/thought went into the layout […]