Book plates and new IA website

whoops been a little while since i've posted. Its only because i have been super busy working on the best projects EVER DRAWED. This is the first of 4 or 5 posts i'll make, right NOW.


This is a book plate and it was drawn for a famous writer named Lian Tanner. She is super famous and has loads of fame, BUT she hasnt forgotten the little people. Infact she is giving these away on her website for the low low price of FOR FREE. The idea is, she will sign this book plate for you, and you can stick it in the front of your copy of Museum of Thieves.

Free guys.

Free.

If you ask me thats a pretty good deal. go on over to her website, post in her comments section and she may send you one.

www.liantanner.com

Oh yes and Illustrators Australia has updated thier website and it looks fancy but not too fancy. Go and have a look at all those great Aussie artists.

www.illustratorsaustralia.com

Museum of Thieves

Here is a cover i did for Allen and Unwin for a great series of books called The keepers. The first in the series is Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner and it was a great read and loads of fun to work on.

This is the full illustration i did. The (lovely) editors at Allen and Unwin wanted an illustration that could be used multiple ways. In this case they cropped the image in for the hardcover and are thinking of using the full bleed illustration for the soft cover later on next year.

Here is the final design (by Design by Committee)

I also did some small interior illustrations for the book. They are just some little character portraits that go above the chapter heading. They were A LOT of fun to work on, i really enjoyed putting a different personality into every character!

Stay tuned for the second and third books in the series, and go out and buy the book!