This was actually one of the original concepts to Divergent Paths by Holly Barbo. After much discussion, we both thought that this was better suited for this particular novel. So I went through and made some modifications to it. Everything here is photomanipulated with the use of some Photoshop brushes and minor digital painting to get the desired effects on
An example of my typographical work. The author had another designer create the cover originally, but she came to me to fix the title of the cover when her Spanish edition came out. I removed the English title by digitally painting over it and tried to re-create the original look for the Spanish title.
I was hesitant to take this project on when the author told me he would like to see a fight scene. Having never illustrated a fight scene of any kind, I told him I’d give it a try and if he didn’t like it, we could always try something else. But he liked it! The entire cover is illustrated and
Both the author and I had both agreed that this particular scene in the book should be the cover. I sketched the girl out on paper and then scanned it to my PC before digitally painting her in. The background is photomanipulated. I went with a darker, red sky to portray some sort of darker things to come versus the
A fun cover I put together for a Halloween anthology I took part of. I wanted to draw a pin-up model-esque witch, but at the same time I wanted to showcase that all the authors presented originally write fantasy and sci-fi (with the exception of a couple of them). As such, someone suggested we put a bubble helmet on her