John Carter is always fun to work with. He gives me an idea and lets me run with it. I’m always asking him questions about things to ensure that I’m still on track with his vision, but his cover ideas are just fun. Things that I learned when making this cover: drawing libraries is no fun because of all the
Jade Kerrion contacted me to give Eternal Night a makeover. Curious to know what the before was? Click on this link to check out the before+after post on her website. Jade wanted a woman on the cover, an icrathi to be exact, so I went about to create one by piecing together 3-4 images together. I was given some artistic
The first anthology published by Paper Crane Books was…difficult. Because the stories encompass all sorts of holidays from various seasons, we needed something to convey a large array of celebration. I came up with about 11 different concepts and we, the members of the press, whittled it down to about 5. Because nobody could come to an agreement, we let
The third installment in the Eli Arnold series. The book is supposed to take place in ancient Rome. Because the book wasn’t quite finished yet, the author and I continued to bounce ideas off each other until we settled on this idea for the cover. It’s the most extensive painting I’ve ever done for a cover and took me the
The author came up with the idea/concept and it was up to me to deliver. I sent her various stock images to look at for the cover and once she sent me the image she wanted, I began making changes. The original photo was taken place during the day, so I changed the lighting to that of a sunset and