Creating a Book Cover Step by Step

A painted portrait I just finished. Colored pencils.

This is one image that was made into 7 interlocking honeycomb shaped plates that fir together.

A portrait I painted last week. It is a painting of a Friend of Mine's Grandfather.

My newest painting for an X Files Poster Print. Colored pencils and acrylic paint on illustration board.

Another cover finished this week. In fact, this afternoon.And I picked up another author. I forget how many covers that I finished for the week.

Another new Cover I just Finished for my Buddy MEL ODOM.

A New Dragon Piece I Just Completed

Just finished another cover for the Time Trap series.

Just finished this cover art....Time Trap book 3,

My newest Cover Art for TIME TRAP.

My newest cover for the Rancho Diablo western book series

My newest cover for the Fght Card book series

Dragon Child...my newest cover art

My newest piece....thar be dragons thar....

A little more tweaking with the image to make the dragon pop off the page!

And I just completed this cover in the middle of the night....If the author likes it, it is finished and ready for publication.

Making progress on my new dragon cover painting.

The beginning stage of new dragon art....more to come as I keep working on it...

All paintings start with the penciling. Here are before and after images of one of my paintings.

Remnant....this is the final art for the Cover.

I couldn't leave it alone...someone tell me to stop!

My dragon painting more tweaked....

a dragon cover I just finished....started it last night...

I love Bela...And was honored to paint this for his Book...

fun stuff...wormwood...better read up on your bible

This was fun to do

Beyond...my first effort of trying to merge fantasy with surrealism

a painting I did of my daughter when she was little...now she has children this age

The painting I did for the Stamp that was in the Smithsonian

colored pencil and acrylic

A Painting I Did of the Kings of Comedy

A Vampire Skull I Came Up With

A Painting For A Cover I Did Almost 20 Years Ago...Soon To Be Re-released

Wings...My newest...

Untitled

And Now for Something Completely Different...Trying to Produce Something Every Day

An Untitled Piece I Just Finished

A Barbarian Cover I Did Just 'Cause

A Little Demon Vampire I Whipped Up

A Book That Just Came Out Featuring My Mermaid Painting

My Newest Cover ....Soon to Come Out

My newest CULLEN cover work to be released shortly

FIGHTCARD Novel Cover...A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD...I have fun doing these

FIGHTCARD Novel Covers...Been doing a lot of these lately. A lot of fight enthusiasts.

5 Covers of the Growing Popular FIGHTCARD Novels that I Got to Do the Covers For