As soon as the author contacted me to come up with a cover based around the title, I immediately thought of a 1950s ad. I already had a 50s-ish stock photo in my stock library, so I went about to do everything in my mind that evoked that time era from the cool starburst effect to the fonts. For good
Tales from Frewyn: Volume II by Michelle Franklin
The author, having liked my work on Khantara, wanted me to create something similar for a variant cover for her short story collection. Whereas the last one was for a novel and I used green, I decided to use a different color scheme (this time, purple) to represent the short stories and to show that although the stories are related,
Khantara: Volume 1 by Michelle Franklin
After much discussion with the author, we decided to create a variant cover to her novel. I wanted to incorporate the artwork that the original illustrator did, so I took an image she drew for the interior of the novel, silhouetted it in green, added a gradient to it to create the central image. On the original cover, the illustrator
Double Helix Bookmarks
Bookmarks for the Double Helix series by Jade Kerrion. She wanted something simple that advertised her series and something that could double as a business card. 2012.