Illustrations for Publishing

Creating illustrations for publishing stretches the creative reflexes.

Illustrations for Publishing | Literature

I’ve worked on many book projects over the years. A couple of days ago, I received a package from Australia. It was a copy of a new literary work, with my artwork prominently displayed. The publisher, Black Inc., bought usage rights to one of my illustrations, and made it look terrific:

Illustrations for Publishing | Humor

A curious company called Despair Inc. publishes a lot of tongue-in-cheek material, putting a spin on those motivational posters you see in the workplace occasionally. Here’s a page from “The Art of Demotivation”, with my illustration:Another publisher of light, witty books is Quirk Publishing. They’ve hired me for quite a few projects. Here is the cover of a book that was released just in time for Valentine’s Day:A heavy seller for Quirk was “The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures”, which I illustrated:Here are some images from that very funny book…

Illustrations for Publishing | How To

Quirk would also occasionally release novelty offerings, like The Amazing Magical Wonder Deck:This project was a lot of fun to work on. I had to graphically represent how ‘the moves’ are performed by parlor magicians. Here are some of those illustrations: 

Bookplate Illustrations for Publishing

Lastly, pertaining to books, I have a client who is a book collector. He asked me to design a bookplate for him. Here it is…