Book Cover Illustrations

Questions: How on earth do you get the intricacy of detail in your artwork? I understand how you could manage it with a fine brush or in pen-and-ink but how do you manipulate lines and curves? How do you get the gradations of color? I’m astonished, impressed, and intrigued simultaneously. Answers: All my illustrations are […]

Generally book covers result from a sketch or two, one of which strikes the publisher’s fancy, and from there the illustrator starts polishing the idea, working his magic to create the final book cover artwork. But there are projects where an seemingly endless number of ideas get tossed around before finally reaching the finish line. […]

I received word that Linda Franklin’s Rainbow In the Flames is now available at the author’s web site. Rainbow in the Flames is not only the touching survival story of young Jed Franklin’s courageous uphill battle, physically and emotionally, from a severe burn injury, but it also includes the struggle of his parents to relate […]

Here’s the book cover illustration I recently finished for The Adventures of Dod by Thomas R. Williams. One of the key features we aimed for from the start was to have a sword glistening in the moonlight. Toward that end the positioning of the castle, figure, sword, and moon became very critical, especially if the […]

I’m slowly wrapping up what proved to be a huge book project: Illustrating and laying out Steve Quayle’s Angel Wars. Rather than creating only the cover illustration for the book (as is my normal assignment with book projects), I also did the graphic design and layout of the cover and all the inner pages as […]

The picture above is the final book cover illustration I created last week for movie-maker Stephen Biro’s upcoming horror novel Hellucination. (And, yes, I am finally getting work finished and hope to get back to my schedule this week — thankfully most of my customers are patient people.) This series of pictures below shows the […]