Mirror Sight: UK edition cover released!

This cover has been done for quite some time now, but Orion Publishing Group has the cover art posted on their site, so I figured it was time I did the same!

Graphite on bristol vellum on a 14 x 17 sheet. More work pending!

Life of Pi

Here's a cover concept for Yann Martel's "Life of Pi." I tried to take a more metaphorical/conceptual approach to illustrating this, where the boat, ocean, tiger, and Pi are helplessly connected in their own universe. This was an excellent color exercise, and I worked to create a slightly different style while I was at it. 

Watercolor on coldpress 140 lb watercolor paper.

Current Project: Sneak Peek

Feeling a little slow as of late, even though I've been working on a larger project for a couple of weeks straight. It started out roughly, since I was transferring the original sketch to the final format via grid, and somehow my grid was slightly off and ended up distorting the first attempt. NOT PRETTY.  Then my current attempt accidentally ended up on a less desirable bristol vellum than usual, but I made do.

Since I can't show you the full image for a while now, this little snippet will have to suffice:

I will probably find plenty of things wrong with the final for me to fix, but I've got time for that, thankfully.

"Almost" cover for UK edition of "The Doomspell"

This blog is falling quite rapidly into a state of neglect, isn't it? *groan* That needs to be fixed. 

Anyway, here is something I finished months ago and forgot to upload. The illustration that was almost the cover art for the UK edition of "The Doomspell" by Cliff McNish. Unfortunately, it was turned down as the author ended up wanting a different look for the series. Oh well. You win some, you lose some, right? At any rate, this piece held a host of new challenges for me, and it would be an understatement to say I lost just a little sleep over this project.