My latest children’s book, Dreamwalker and Chloe, is available now for Kindle. Written by Callie Michael. Published by Heavy Crown Press.
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Print version available soon!
Tag: cover
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Dreamwalker and Chloe
Dreamwalker and Chloe is a chapter book about a young horse who is separated from his mother too soon. When a back injury renders him “unrideable,” his owners treat him very badly. Once two loving new owners take him on, however, he finally finds his forever home. -
Cover art for Just So Stories
Here’s the cover illustration I did recently for Well-Trained Mind Press. It’s for a children’s audiobook of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, as read by award-winning storyteller Jim Weiss. This is the fourth cover I’ve done for them, and I think this one may be my favorite so far.
In addition to providing the cover illustration, I also handled the design work for the CD case. All in all, I was really happy with how it came out!
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Supervillain Throwdown!
Recently, I was going through a drawer of old artwork when I happened across this four-page comic I did while taking a graphic novel class at VCU. We were told to create a super-villain with a defined set of powers/abilities. Once that was done, we were put into groups and had to come up with a story together where our characters fight. Even though we all worked on the story together, we were each left to make our own version and come up with our own dialogue. My character was The Mezmerizer, whose powers included disorienting people and projecting energy. I was always very fond of him, but never quite got around to using him for anything outside of this particular story. Overcompensation-Man was created by designer Matt Leahy, and Octo-Girl was created by illustrator Ally Hodges. Put it all together and you get webcomic Supervillain Throwdown!
I originally drew and inked the pages for class, but we were not required to color them. It was always in the back of my mind to go ahead and add color, but between graduating and starting a career, it got lost in the shuffle. I’m glad I went back and did this- I had a lot of fun revisiting these characters. Who knows, if I dig a little deeper in my art drawer, I may find a few more comics that get the finishing up treatment.
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Illustration Friday | Internet
My entry for this week’s Illustration Friday challenge is from a cover illustration I did for the Graphic Artists Guild newsletter. The title of the piece is Intertubes, and comes from Senator Ted Stevens’ infamous comment that the internet is a “series of tubes.”
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Tales From Cultures Far And Near | Well-Trained Mind
Had the privilege of doing the cover illustration for a children’s storytelling CD called Tales From Cultures Far And Near. As the title suggests, the CD features traditional stories from various cultures around the world. The story I picked to illustrate was from Japan, called Two Monks, so I made my first-ever attempt at emulating the style of Japanese woodprints. The CD is published by Well-Trained Mind, and you can purchase it here: welltrainedmind.com
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Book Cover Design: The Last Teacher
Book cover design I did for a book called The Last Teacher by Micheal L Dales.
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Cover Art for C-Ville Weekly
Happy New Year! 2013 is off to an auspicious start for me already with my first cover for C-ville hitting the stands today. It’s my first cover for anything available locally like this, and it’s really cool to drive around town and see my artwork everywhere! This is a slight departure from my usual work, but the art director wanted to avoid using any gun imagery after the recent shootings in New Haven. When we met, he had already worked out the idea of a cave painting and showing the women from the article with bows and arrows.
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Kid Hercules: The Graphic Novel
Here’s a preview of my upcoming graphic novel entitled: Kid Hercules and the Gigantic Angry Monster Sausage. I’ll have more to post about it soon…
