Book Cover Illustrations

I completed the book cover illustration and lettering/layout for R. P. Tedlie’s Isabel’s Tears a few days ago. While the initial publication will be in the Kindle format (which is grayscale), we went ahead and created a hi-resolution color version so the author would be ready for traditional printing should he decide to go that route (and/or for a color version of the cover should Kindle market a reader with color capability).

Tedlie had envisioned a beautiful cover concept when he contacted me, so creating the picture was straight forward. However painting all the individual flowers in the lilac twig took a little time than I had expected, but the result was well worth the effort, becoming a cover illustration more beautiful than I thought possible.

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Duncan Long is a freelance book cover illustrator and graphic layout artist for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, and many other publishers and self-publishing authors. See his cover illustrations at: Duncan’s Book Cover Illustrations and Layout
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