Entries Tagged ‘Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork’:
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Nov.18, 2010
This is the preliminary cover illustration I’ve created for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. We tried to capture the conflict in one of the key scenes in the book, in which a priest is faced with the moral dilemma of whether to take matters into his own hands, and perhaps […]
Tags: book artist, book cover art, book cover artwork, Book cover design, book cover illustration, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book cover illustrator, book illustrations, book illustrator, Dale Allan, Duncan Long, illustration, Lead Me Not Into Temptation, self-publishing, self-publishing artwork
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Graphic Novels on Oct.14, 2010
OK… these have to bring the total cover concepts I’ve created for the graphic novel Werewolves of New Idria (written by John Chadwell and soon to be released by Moonstone Books) up to something like eight different versions. The good news is that they seem to be getting better along the way. And each rejected […]
Tags: B&W book illustrations, B&W Illustrator, black and white illustrations, book cover art, book cover artwork, Book cover design, book cover illustration, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book cover illustrator, book illustrations, book illustrator, Duncan Long, John Chadwell, Moonstone Books, Werewolves of New Idria
filed in Book Artwork and Illustrations on Aug.10, 2010
Another of the B&W book illustrations created for Victor Thorn’s upcoming book, Reality Bomb. Although this artwork started its “life” as a colored illustration, the translation into black and white worked well, making a powerful picture for Thorn’s book. This B&W book artwork is titled Second Death – Last Rites. ===================== Duncan Long is a […]
Tags: B&W book illustrations, book artwork, book artwork illustrator, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book illustrator, freelance book artist, Victor Thorn
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Jul.19, 2010
I just completed the book cover illustration for Dora Machado’s Stonewiser III, available from Mermaid Press later this year (or possibly early 2011). Machado’s first two book (which I also had the pleasure of creating book cover illustrations for) have garnered a number of awards, and everyone’s hopeful for this third book in the trilogy. […]
Tags: book artist, book cover art, book cover artwork, Book cover design, book cover illustration, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book cover illustrator, book illustrations, book illustrator, Dora Machado, Duncan Long, illustrator, Stonewiser, Stonewiser III
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Jul.09, 2010
From time to time beginning illustrators contact me to ask whether Photoshop or Corel Painter is the better choice for digital illustration work. I think in fact there’s no wrong choice to make. After an artist gets used to the digital “landscape” of a program and using a tablet (I recommend Wacom tablets, by the […]
Tags: Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book cover illustrator, Corel Paint, Duncan Long, freelance book cover illustrator, illustration work, PhotoPaint, Photoshop, Which is better
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Jul.05, 2010
Often when working on book illustrations for self-publishing authors, there will be confusion in regard to the DPI (dots per inch) needed for a picture to look good in print. The confusion comes because web pictures and most artwork designed for viewing on a computer screen will appear at 72 dpi (or, more rarely, at […]
Tags: 150 dpi, 300 dpi, 350 dpi, 72 dpi, 96 dpi, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Dots per inch for printing a book cover, DPI, DPI for print, magazine illustrations, pictures for self-publishing, self-publishing
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Jun.10, 2010
Sneak preview of the cover I completed this week for R. Thomas Roe’s Palm Beach Gold. ===================== Duncan Long is a freelance book cover illustrator and 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: http://DuncanLong.com/art.html =====================
Tags: book cover artwork, Book cover design, book cover designer, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book cover illustrator, book cover layout, graphic artist, graphic book layout
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on May.11, 2010
Most illustrators creating genre book covers know Frank Frazetta and his beautiful artwork. More than a few book cover artists have been influenced to at least some extent by his work. Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Frazetta started his art career at the ripe old age of 16, illustrating comic books, eventually working for a […]
Tags: book cover artist, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Frank Frazetta, genre artist, genre illustrator
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on May.07, 2010
Over the last 24 hours I’ve been contacted several times by illustrators just starting in the illustration business asking me for tips for beginners. So here’s another blog with a few tips for intrepid book cover illustrators, with the caveat that my guidance is akin to the blind leading the blind: 1) Keep on keeping […]
Tags: advice for illustrators, art directors and illustrators, book cover artists, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, book cover illustrator, book covers for self publishers, Duncan Long, self publisher, self-publishing
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on May.06, 2010
I’ve been in the publishing industry for several decades now, and have seen some amazing changes. When I started, anyone with reasonable talent could get into print with a big publisher. Not so anymore. Another change is the lack of promotion new books now get today. Most publishers — big and small — budget little […]
Tags: book cover artist, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork, Duncan Long, publicity for authors, publicity for writers, Self promotion for authors, self promotion for writers