Entries Tagged ‘book cover artwork’:
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Apr.17, 2011
On weekends I sometimes paint a “just for fun” piece that hopefully will be sold down the road. Here’s one of these, this one with a science fiction flavor with a nod toward the Garden of Eden. I’ve titled this illustration “Eve at Empire’s End.” ===================== Duncan Long loves to create book illustrations and even […]
Tags: book cover, book cover artwork, book cover illustration, Duncan Long, empire's end, Eve, Eve at Empire's End, science fiction
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Apr.09, 2011
I received an autographed copy of Dora Machado’s Stonewiser III: The Lament of the Stone, now available from Mermaid Press. This is the third book in the series (and I also had the honor of creating the book cover illustrations for those as well). The first two books garnered several publishing awards, and I suspect […]
Tags: book cover artwork, book cover illustrator, Bookwrights, Christian book cover artist, Dora Machado, Duncan Long, Mayapriya Long, Mermaid Press, Stonewiser III, The Lament of the Stone
filed in Book Cover Design, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Apr.08, 2011
Here’s the final book cover layout for R. Thomas Roe’s upcoming action-adventure novel Searching for America. (You can check my previous two blog posts for more about the book cover illustration.) I added an AK-47 icon for the spine and basically to fill space in the layout above the book publisher’s address. (And, yes, fellow […]
Tags: adction adventure book cover, book cover artist, book cover artwork, Book cover design, book cover illustration, book cover illustrator, Duncan Long, novel cover designer, Searching for America
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Self Publishing on Mar.31, 2011
The growing number of self-published authors and small presses has been fretted over by many in the publishing industry. Their fear/argument has been that in the past big publishers acted as gatekeepers to preserve the quality of books. They rejected poorly written work and maintained the quality of books being produced — so the argument […]
Tags: book cover artist, book cover artwork, book cover illustration, book cover illustrator, book covers, book design, Duncan Long, gate keeper, gatekeeper, gatekeepers in the literary marketplace, self-publishing
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Graphic Novels on Mar.16, 2011
Received this photo of a jolly John Chadwell standing in front of the book cover and graphic novel cover I created for him. And, yes, that’s his Facebook page showing there on the monitor at the lower right. John has a lot to smile about. His scripts for both stories are now making the rounds […]
Tags: book cover artwork, book cover illustration, Duncan Long, graphic novel artwork, graphic novel illustration, Hunt of the Sea Wolves, John Chadwell, Moonstone Books, novel artwork, novel illustration, The Werewolves of New Idria
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Book Graphic Design on Mar.15, 2011
One of this week’s projects, the cover illustration and design for Linda Franklin’s Rainbow in the Flames, a true story of tragedy turned into triumph through the love and perseverance. The tricky part of this cover proved to be arranging the rainbow so it would cross the spine, show on the front in the proper […]
Tags: book cover artwork, Book cover design, book cover illustration, Duncan Long, graphic artist, graphic design, graphic designer, Linda Franklin, logo creation, Rainbow Heart Publications, Rainbow in the Flames
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Self Publishing on Mar.10, 2011
Here’s the finished book cover illustration and layout for R.S. Guthrie’s novel Black Beast. This project allowed the creation of another “contrasts” illustration involving a priest (different novels, but both central characters are Roman Catholic priests). In this case the evil is pretty apparent, and obviously provides the main contrast to the priest who’s unaware […]
Tags: Black Beast, book cover artwork, book cover illustrator, Duncan Long, Kindle, R.S. Guthrie, self-publishing
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Self Publishing on Mar.09, 2011
The Kindle version of Hunt of the Sea Wolves is now available at: Amazon.com. Interestingly, the original color version becomes grayscale — because the Kindle is currently color blind. I expect that to change in the near future, but for now, a book illustrator must take a little care to keep the cover illustration contrasts […]
Tags: Amazon.com, book cover artist, book cover artwork, book cover illustrator, Duncan Long, Hunt of the Sea Wolves, John Chadwell, Kindle, Self Publising
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Self Publishing on Mar.08, 2011
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 […]
Tags: action adventure book cover artwork, book art, book artist, book cover artist, book cover artwork, book illustration, book illustrator, Diverse Talent Group, Duncan Long, Hunt of the Sea Wolves, John Chadwell, Moonstone Books, Movie concept artwork, movie script, Ron Shusett, self-publishing
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Mar.02, 2011
This is another book illustration I had the opportunity to have showcased in the upcoming May issue of Horror Bound Magazine. In this case, science fiction book cover artwork I created for my own novel Wrong Side In. This picture has had it’s own tale of woe. Several years ago, I wrote a science fiction […]
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