It's that time for Make Art That Sells Boot Camp! This is the second time I have joined this super fun and creative bootcamp! This time the bootcamp runs from January to May. It's literally five months of fun and time to create many beautiful pieces for my portfolio....
Book Cover Design
Little White Cat
"The Little White Cat" children's book illustration is the third assignment from my MATS A class (Make Art That Sells). This part of the course is targeting the "children's book" market, something I'm very keen to do more of in the future, for which we've all been...
The Tell Tale Heart Book Cover Design Illustration
"The Tell Tale Heart" book is one of my favourites from Edgar Allan Poe. If you know one or two things about me then you know I'm a big fan of horror, creepy and scary films, novel and stories. This contrasts greatly with my illustration work which is happy,...
Julie and Julia Book Cover Design and Illustrations
"Julie & Julia" is one of my favourite films. I first watched this film after I discovered the actual book written by the same author, Julia Powell. If you know a little bit about the film or book, you know the story of the film and book is about American TV Chef...
Roald Dahl Book Cover Design and Illustrations
When I was studying in the HND illustration course, one of my teachers gave us a project to illustrate and design four book covers from Roald Dahl's book "Kiss Kiss" short stories collection. This was the first time I had read a Roald Dahl story. Before I read "Kiss...
Nigel Slater Toast Book Cover Design
Earlier this year I set myself a self-initiated project which entirely focused on book cover illustrations and designs as I have to date not been hired to make anyone book covers. When I was an illustration student I always liked any book cover illustration and design...
Robert Burns Book Cover Poem Design
This Robert Burns poem cover design project is one of my self initiated projects and I wanted to use this opportunity to sharpen my book cover design and illustration skill as I haven't had a chance to design a book cover for a long time. This is a real shame as I...
My Illustrated Manifesto
Early in 2015 I was working on a personal project which was my illustrated manifesto. I've recently seen a couple panoramic style illustrations which I thought looked really great, really interesting, but naturally I didn't want to copy these so I thought why not...
Fledgling Press Book Cover Design
I was recently asked to create a book cover an upcoming book called "Boy Soldier and Beyond". I depicted boys joining the army but leaving as men as my main inspiration for this story. I focused completely on this transition as the author was a young man (boy) when he...