Sage book cover

I love Alto books. They are always getting me to paint space babes. How can you not love that?

This is a cover for a book called Sage: the power within. it was written by a new young Author named Stephanie Holder and its a super bad ass action adventure. it comes out in July this year so go buy it when its out!

I feel like this is one of the strongest pieces I've done. Loved working on it and loved the long deadline =) enjoy

The Bridge cover

This book cover was done for text publishing, for a story written by Jane Higgins, who won the Text prize!

Much like Highlander, there can be only one winner of the text prize. Per year. Basically the prize is that Text will publish an outstanding unpublished manuscript. What an awesome way to break into the industry. You can check out more info on the prize here.

It's a great story, and it comes out August 1st, so go and buy it and support an awesome new book.

here is the final desgined cover, by the charming and talented W.H. Chong

It was great fun working with Chong, but it was an unusual method for me. This is the first project I've done where i was provided with a rough.


I took the rough and ran with it, and ended up in some very different directions to the original sketch by Mr Chong.

to which they replied No thanks! so i did one much more in line the original sketch.

The Big Dry

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This is a book cover I did for little hare books for a story called The Big Dry. Its written by Tony Davis. I'll do another post when it hits shelves so you can go and buy it immediately.

The process for this cover was slightly different than what I am used to, because I didn’t actually get to read the story. What I got was a brief which outlined key points in the story, and from what I read it sounds completely awesome and I cannot wait to read it.

Below is a crop in so you can see the little dewds, as well as a couple of the roughs I’d sent to the publisher. They opted for a best of both worlds approach and asked that I combine the roughs.

I really loved doing this one, so please enjoy!

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!