Book Cover Illustrations

This is the preliminary cover illustration I’ve created for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. We tried to capture the conflict in one of the key scenes in the book, in which a priest is faced with the moral dilemma of whether to take matters into his own hands, and perhaps […]

The “Woman Clothed With the Sun” is one of the few book illustrations I’ve been hired to do that didn’t go to print. The idea for the picture comes from Revelation 12:1 “A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown […]

Got my artist’s copy of Science Fiction Art Now yesterday and have spent some time with it. It’s one beautiful “coffee table book,” and covers the wide open territory of great science fiction. It’s a joy to have my illustrations included be in it. About the only downside is that with all the fantastic artists […]

“Elfin Dreams In Autumn” is an old painting, but seems suitable for this time of the year. All rights are currently available including book cover illustration and magazine artwork rights. ===================== When not racking leaves with the hope of uncovering an elf, Duncan Long creates magazine and book illustrations for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, […]

Normally I don’t feel too sorry for any woes heaped upon critics, short of seeing them step off the curb to be hit by a bus. However art critic Brian Sherwin has started a series of blogs offering insight on what artists do in an effort to bully, browbeat, or entice critics to give them […]

I’ve been working on a space illustration for the top back of a science fiction novel. This is one of the “exercises” I did to develop a faster way to create both planets as well as the detail on a spaceship to make it look more like the surface of something that might have been […]

Most people have never heard of BiblioBazaar. Yet it’s a company that has quietly been building a book catalog of hundreds of thousands of books — with 272,930 new titles last year. It coverts public domain titles into ebook and POD (print on demand) formats. BiblioBazaar’s strategy is to seel just a few of each […]

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.

Here’s the back cover illustration for A. J. Vega’s science fiction adventure A. I. Offspring. Interestingly enough, the spaceship design was created by the author who has no small talent as an artist (just don’t tell him or he’ll start doing his own cover illustrations). ===================== When not dreaming of piloting spaceships, Duncan Long is […]

I recently had a shot at a new mythology series and needed to put together a portfolio keyed to Greek myths. Unfortunately I came up one picture short, and so hurriedly considered what might be a good subject for a new painting to include in the mix. I’ve always loved the story of Perseus and […]