Entries Tagged ‘Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork’:
filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on May.04, 2010
This illustration is a “closeup” of some of the detail in “Midday Dream” (posted a few days ago). Displaying book illustrations on the web is a little frustrating. First of all, the finer details of pictures are lost due to the lower resolution of a screen as compared to print (about a third to a […]
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filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Mar.24, 2010
Another “book cover illustration exercise” done last weekend for entertainment — and hopefully to either inspire the commission of a book cover illustration or even to serve as a book illustration should it match an author’s vision of a story in search of artwork. Or maybe some concept art or a character design. At any […]
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filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Mar.15, 2010
Occasionally I see a writer agonize over which of two proposed book cover illustrations to place on his book. His fear is that one picture might be much better than the other for their title. And since there’s no way to know (short of trying both), it is a decision that’s hard to make. Or […]
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filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Mar.11, 2010
As can likely be seen by studying some of my previous posts, I’ve been working on creating “starscapes” of cultures that might (in a science fiction sort of way) exist far from Earth. This is my latest exercise (and another book cover illustration without a home) that I hope will eventually be employed for a […]
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filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Mar.07, 2010
For fun I often create book cover illustrations – without an actual story to illustrate. Oddly enough, these often eventually find a home or attract attention of a publisher or author needing a similar book cover illustration. Plus they’re fun to do. Here’s the latest, a science fiction book cover illustration, presently without a home. […]
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filed in Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Sep.16, 2009
I’ve put the new illustrations I’ve created over the last month (plus some reworked older pieces) online for inspection. A few pictures have cover rights sold (including the new cover for R. L. Brush’s Jesse Steele and the Secret of Otherworld), but most of the other illustrations have all rights still available. The URL: http://duncanlong.com/preview/ […]
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