Book Cover Illustrations

Here’s the final version of the book cover for Douglas E. Richards‘ The Devil’s Sword.

Since the illustration didn’t have a sword on it (even though fencing plays a big role in the storyline), I created a vector graphic of a classic fencing foil and then “impaled” the O and D in the “sword” part of the title. I later put the sword as well as the helicopter into a TTF (True Type Font) file so those working on the spine and back cover could reproduce the sword or chopper as logo-style elements in their layout.

This project had a lot of twists and turns before we got to the final book cover illustration and layout. But the effort was worth it. This is a powerful image that should serve the book and author well as he promotes his title.

(You can read about the process of creating this book cover illustration at my previous post about this.)

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Duncan Long is a freelance graphic artist and book cover designer and illustrator. His works has appeared on titles from HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, and many other publishers and self-publishing authors. See his book cover illustrations at: http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
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