Entries Tagged ‘Edgar Allan Poe’:
filed in Book Artwork and Illustrations on Dec.07, 2010
A sneak peek at one of the book illulstrations for the up-coming edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” that I’m currently working on. ===================== Duncan Long is a freelance magazine and book illustrator for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, ISFiC Press, and many other publishers and […]
Tags: book artist, book artwork, book illustration, Duncan Long, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mask of the Red Death, The Masque of the Red Death
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Dec.05, 2010
As most clients know, I don’t get much work done over the weekend unless we’re really pushing a deadline. That’s not to say I don’t spend most of my free time creating illustrations. It’s rather to say that I’m creating illustrations to please myself rather than for profit. Yes, sometimes (often in fact) these pictures […]
Tags: Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Christmas tradition, Duncan Long, Edgar Allan Poe, Masque of the Red Death, The Mask of the Red Death
filed in Book Artwork and Illustrations on Nov.09, 2010
One more illustration from the free ebook of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eleonora” (which you can be download for free here). The illustrated version of Poe’s “The Raven” can also be downloaded for free here. Please feel free to share these ebooks (or their links) with your friends. And if you want to offer either for […]
Tags: book artist, book artwork, book graphic designer, book illustration, book illustrator, Duncan Long, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora, free ebook, graphic design for books, The Raven
filed in Book Artwork and Illustrations on Nov.08, 2010
Another illustration from the free ebook I put together which you can download here: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eleonora”; it’s in PDF format. You can also still download my illustrated version of Poe’s “The Raven” here. Please feel free to share these ebooks (or their links) with your friends. And if you want to offer it […]
Tags: book artist, book artwork, book cover graphic design, book illustration, book illustrator, Duncan Long, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora, The Raven
filed in Creativity on Sep.23, 2010
We’ve all heard about the suffering artist. Edgar Allan Poe drinks himself nuts, scribing poems and stories that seem to relate to the early loss of a young woman he loved. Vincent Van Gogh lopped off an ear and then painted a picture of his one-eared self. These aren’t unique artistic tales. There really is […]
Tags: creativity and trauma, creativity causes the artist to suffer, Edgar Allan Poe, emotional problems and artists, the cause of creativity, the muse, trauma and creativity
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Oct.25, 2009
In keeping with the holiday season, I’m offering a free download of the newly illustrated Edgar Allan Poe classic, “The Raven” (which illustrated and laid out this last week). Careful, the virtual ink’s still wet. Please note that in addition to the new illustrations, I also created a new typeface for this publication as well […]
Tags: Book cover design, book graphic design, book illustrations, book layout, Edgar Allan Poe, freelance book artist, graphic artist, The Raven
