This month’s Featured Artist is Patrick Loehr. I came upon his work in an accidental way by picking up his first children’s book, Mucumber McGee and the Half-Eaten Hot Dog
in a bargain bin.
I liked the artwork from the start and read maybe a page or two at the store and decided it was definitely worth a purchase. I got it home and read it to my son. For any of those that have a two year old, you can understand that it isn’t easy to keep one still long enough to finish a book, even one so short, but he was attentive the entire time. As for me, I loved not only the illustration style but the writing as well. I highly recommend picking it up whether you have kids or not.
I don’t have it yet, but Patrick has a second children’s book Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cover, dark, Edward Gorey, interview, victorian
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Just a quick note to say that I do still exist. I have been crazy busy trying to finish up a big project, in the form of a graphic novel. Or comic book. or graphic short story? Regardless of what it is called, it is an illustrated version of a short story written by Dean Mehrkens. Here is a little teaser for it, as it is coming very very soon. It will be fully hosted here on the blog and on Dean’s site and will be available all together in a number of formats when it has ran its course here.
Also, I am still working on a how-to video for the textures in the previous blog post, so that is something else to look forward to.
And without further ado, the cover for the Prisoner graphic short story, coming very soon:
See the pages here:
1 & 2
3 & 4
5 & 6
7 & 8
9 & 10
11 & 12
13 & 14
15 & 16
17 & 18
19 & 20
21 & 22
23 & 24
Tags: comic, cover, graphic novel, Prisoner, short story
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Repeat client and friend, Dean Mehrkens, contacted me about the e-book he was about to publish and said that he needed a fantasy map and an image for a cover. The brief for the cover was simple, make it look ancient with just text. It had to include the name, subtitle, the initials CD in the center and his name below. He had given me a couple images of inspiration Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: book, cover, fantasy, photography, Photoshop, process, testimonial, writing
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