Isis Sousa's Blog: Tragic Books' news - Posts Tagged "design"

I was invited to join a group that was just founded by e-book cover designer (and writer) Jade Laredo -

COVER ARTIST FORUM: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

All cover artists (and those who make interior illustration as well) are invited to join!

Authors, there could be a great place to gather information and insights if you are planning on purchasing a cover or assign an artist.

Join this great group with me :)

Click here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

If you enjoy browsing fine art books, illustrated books, picture books, comic books, graphic novels - if you're an author of this kind of book or reviewer, here is the place for you:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Welcome to this new, cozy and interesting group!

As most of you may know, I work as illustrator and only write/publish books as a hobby thing on my free time. And as artist, I have had the pleasure to work with many amazing GoodReads authors. I have learned a lot on the process of each book cover and have made great friends.

Today, I am sharing with you some of the covers I have done on the past couple of years – hand painted from scratch -, mostly within Epic Fantasy, Fantasy and Fantasy Romance. Lately I have made a Sci-Fi Romance cover – but that will only be revealed next year ^.^

Another thing about the covers you see out there is that they are generally made months before a book is published – so yes, readers, the new releases for you are old news for me and those who worked in the production of a book. :)

Those covers on the top are for Grace Draven’s books of the Wraith Kings Series.

Some covers for Martyn Stanley





Some covers for Nathan Barham





Some for Josefine Gottwald





Here’s for Gaelen Foley





And here’s for Tiffany Roberts






I have some new covers done the past months, but I just can’t yet share them with you, so PT II of this post may come later this year.

As for what goes on the cover - it is ALWAYS what the authors/press require and how they require. It means I don't do what I want, rather I do what the client wants ;)

I have done MANY non-fiction covers, within graphic design technique, but I am not featuring those in these posts. (Maybe on a separate post later on as well?)

And I have some room available on my schedule this summer for a few more covers, in case you’re interested, send me a message. Fees start at 400 USD/370 EUR. (But hurry, because those get filled pretty fast.)

And that's all folks, thanks for reading :D