Illusionarium

This is an audiobook cover I illustrated for an awesome book by my awesome friend: Heather Dixon.  It was a ton of fun to do and I'm very happy with the way it turned out.  Check it out here.

A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Front Cover

Back Cover

I feel so fortunate when I get to do covers that really resonate with me and this lovely ghost story by Lauren DeStefano is definitely one of those.  Check out this awesome book here.

Rose and the Silver Ghost

The fourth and final book in the Rose series.  I've loved working on these covers, I think it's some of my best work (and they're good books).  Check this one out here.

Hardy Boys Adventures: Shadows at Predator Reef and Deception on the Set

A few of these have come out and I haven't posted them yet, so here we are.  I've also realized that I've never mentioned the art director I've worked with for these, Karin Paprocki.  She's awesome and deserves a lot of credit for how these have turned out.

 I love sharks (from a distance) so I had fun with this one.  All cool colors.  Check it out here.

 This one takes place on a movie set so I was going for a big Hollywood style explosion. I pointed out the cool colors on the last one because of all the warm colors here, it's kinda cool to see them side by side like this.  Amazon link!

Masterminds

Another book cover, this one was fun because of all the different scenarios together in one image.  Buy the book here.

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The Signal

An illustration I did for Clubhouse Magazine.

Balance Keepers: The Fires of Calderon

A book cover I illustrated from an exciting new YA series.  This one was a lot of fun!  

Check it out here.

Rose and the Magician's Mask

The third cover I've done for the excellent Rose series.  Buy the book here.

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Odysseus (and all six heads of Scylla)

This is the second cover I've done for the Myth-O-Mania series.  I love Greek mythology and these have been so much fun to do.  You can buy the book here.

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The Castle Behind Thorns

A cover I did for a book by Merrie Haskell who has a knack for coming up with exceptional imagery that is really fun to paint!  Check out the book here.

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Hardy Boys Adventures: The Battle of Bayport

My latest Hardy Boys cover.  Check it out here.

Rose and the Lost Princess

This is the second cover I've done for the Rose series.  They've been very fun to work on and the books are great.  Check it out here.

Hardy Boys Adventures: Peril at Granite Peak

My third cover for the Hardy Boys series, check it here.

Grave Images

When I was offered this job I was swamped with work but found myself physically incapable of saying no to a girl in a graveyard image.  This was a lot of fun!  The book is by Jenny Goebel and may be purchased here.

Friend Illustrations - October and December

I'm always so excited to get a job from the Friend Magazine.  The designers and art directors are awesome and these two paintings, like all the images I do for them, were very fun and fulfilling.

Hardy Boys Adventures: Into Thin Air

This is the second cover I did for the Hardy Boys Adventures series.  Check it out here.

Helen of Troy - Strucketh by Cupid

 This is the cover I worked on for Hit the Road, Helen!, a book in the Myth-O-Mania series.  They're these fun, modern retellings of old Greek myths and stories.  Check it out here.

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Hardy Boys Adventures: The Vanishing Game

I loved the Hardy Boys mysteries when I was a kid (and still do) so I was very exited when the chance came along to do the covers for their latest series called Hardy Boys Adventures.  This book is called The Vanishing Game, you can check it out here.

Rose

A book cover I did for Sourcebooks.  I was really busy when this project came my way but it was too cool to pass up.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  Check it out here.

Disney Infinity

This is a huge game and there are significant parts of it that I never touched and didn't know much about (which has made it fun to play since it's been released).  While I worked a bit on the Intro, the Toybox, and Pirates portions of the game, I mainly worked on the Monsters University playset.  Particularly the Fear Tech campus.  Fear Tech is mentioned in the movie but we never see it so the overall look was done with regular input from the geniuses at Pixar.  The main idea was that while MU was an eastern, ivy league, Harvard style campus, FT would be a western, technical, Caltech style campus.  So it was a lot of fun to design the visual look of everything with those influences in mind.  Gabe Avila was the designer on this so he did the overall layout, and Ryan Wood was the art director so a fair amount of what you're seeing came from him too.  I won't bore you with who did what, just keep in mind that it was a team effort. Here's some shots of our work:

I also worked with the marketing team for a while and helped set up some of the screen shots that were sent to the press.  Of the ones I did these are a few of my favorites (again, team effort! I'm not taking sole credit):

I really loved working on this game.  My son and I have a hard time finding games to play together sometimes.  Either they're too hard for him or boring for me.  Since I received my copy we've played Infinity for hours together, always having a great time.  It was a lot of long, hard work but I think the finished product is something genuinely special.