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 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
This cover was created for a short story/novella written by a mother-daughter team for MG readers. The story is set in ancient Egypt, so I tried to invoke the time period by researching the appropriate clothing and pyramids. This piece is completely digitally painted. 2014.
The fifth cover in the Sage Seed Chronicles. Because the book touched upon points from all the previous books and because I wanted to give the last book a look that reflected one of the earlier books, I ended up stealing the sky from the second book (Divergent Paths) and recreating a snowy scene that was depicted in the book