Years ago I created and posted a handful of stereograms, and then I started a series of tutorials to share how I made them. Part I described how to create a background pattern or texture, and Part II described how to create a distance mask render or depth map. But I never finished the series of tutorials and completely left out this part, Part III. I didn’t get into it because by that time I was on a new computer…
Two years ago, I took up guitar lessons. A year after that, I tried songwriting for the first time. These are the lyrics to the first song I ever wrote, based off a poem I wrote two lifetimes ago. Poetry Verse 1 I like alliteration, linking letters line by line, And making music that you marvel at the movement and the rhyme. We often wonder at the work that went into these words, And contemplate the cool, creative cadence in…
Seducing the Hermit was published back in 2007. The author is Suz deMello, with whom I’ve worked before, and bless her heart—she specifically requests my cartoon covers, AND she is one of the very few whose books actually justify the illustration style. The last time I worked with Suz was for the cover The Wilder Brother, and we went through so many drafts doing that cover that I decided to skip all the potential communication problems and read the manuscript…
I’m born anew — or at least attempting such. I don’t mean a half-hearted single post every year or so either. I mean a full-fledged rise from the ashes with a return to posting regularity and a wary embrace of the public. I hid for a long while because life got hard and things got personal. Circumstances changed enormously. I got lost for a while and lacked direction, but I kept moving because at least I had my work. And then…
Just dropping in for a quick note. After I posted one of my latest cover work onto my Facebook page, my friend and fellow cover artist Valerie Tibbs asked me to guest blog at International Heat. So, today I’m blogging about a book cover I designed for Kimberly D. Woods’ Dark Angel. You can find it here. Share this post: