Book Cover Illustrations

I’m sending out this year’s Christmas gift a bit early – to be sure it arrives before folks start leaving work for vacation. The gift is my newly illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death (in PDF format). As noted in a previous post, a Poe story may seem an odd […]

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 […]

You see strange things in the murky depths when you go fishing late in the day. A wise fisherman knows not to talk about them, except perhaps to those who fish as he does. This is the “One That Got Away,” that mermaid sighted for just a moment, that lady of the lake who becomes […]

This is a sort of spin off from my book cover project for Dale Allan’s novel Me Not Not Into Temptation. Initially I did a sketch of the priest with his back to the viewer and one with his front — the latter being the one chosen for the cover since it was easy to […]

This is the preliminary cover illustration I did with red lettering for the title (which, tentatively, is the final version of the cover — all things subject to change in publishing) for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. For a closer look at what sort of symbolism/thought went into the layout […]

The “Woman Clothed With the Sun” is one of the few book illustrations I’ve been hired to do that didn’t go to print. The idea for the picture comes from Revelation 12:1 “A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown […]

Got my artist’s copy of Science Fiction Art Now yesterday and have spent some time with it. It’s one beautiful “coffee table book,” and covers the wide open territory of great science fiction. It’s a joy to have my illustrations included be in it. About the only downside is that with all the fantastic artists […]

Normally I don’t feel too sorry for any woes heaped upon critics, short of seeing them step off the curb to be hit by a bus. However art critic Brian Sherwin has started a series of blogs offering insight on what artists do in an effort to bully, browbeat, or entice critics to give them […]

I’ve been working on a space illustration for the top back of a science fiction novel. This is one of the “exercises” I did to develop a faster way to create both planets as well as the detail on a spaceship to make it look more like the surface of something that might have been […]

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.