Book Cover Illustrations

Today’s project was finalizing the artwork for John Chadwell’s Hunt of the Sea Wolves which will go into print first as a Kindle title and from there… Well, the sky’s the limit because Diverse Talent Group is currently soliciting producers.

John Chadwell has written hundreds of articles for magazines and newspapers, is a successful script doctor, and has penned over 20 theatrical scripts. Readers may recall that he wrote the story for Werewolves of New Idria (which I illustrated in its graphic novel form for Moonstone Books).

John also works from time to time with Ron Shusett (who wrote Alien and Total Recall). The team is back together with the script for Hunt of the Sea Wolves which Shusett co-wrote with John.

And, yes, it gets exciting to be involved with these projects, even if only on the edge of things.

(You can visit John’s Hunt of the Sea Wolves site for more info about the story.)

As is often the case, I created two rough versions of the cover. John went with the one shown above (which I agree is the better of the two). The runner up is shown below.

And here’s the picture before I added the cover lettering:

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Duncan Long is a book cover artist for John Chadwell as well as ILEX, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, HarperCollins, and many other publishers and self-publishing authors. See his book cover artwork at: Duncan’s Book Cover Artwork Portfolio
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