Showing posts with label Book covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book covers. Show all posts
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Scholastic books
the last of the 4 covers i did for The Haunting of Derek Stone has finally hit shelves! So I'm posting my favorite of the 4 (which just happens to be the darkest and gloomy-est).
in the interest of not clogging up the blog, i posted the first three final cover images full sized on my own blog: stabwell.blogspot.com
hope you guys like them despite the childrens book color schemes.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Brain Sizzlers and Mind Mashers
For most of 2009 i have been working on two activity books. Lots of B&W stuff happening on the inside(which i will probably post some hilights later) and full color covers. Welp, the covers got approved so i thought i would post em here
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Introduction To Me
Thanks so much for the Invite, A little about myself I'm Matt an artist from the far shores of Tasmania. I work mostly in Adobe Illustrator and hope for a future career working as a Character Designer in the USA!For this first post heres a little sample of my work, and when I can I also post on my blog which you can find HERE again thanks for the invitation and I can't wait to begin joining in on Projects.
This is a Cover to The Perhapanauts to be published later in the year by Image Comics.
This is a Side Project of Mine which has had some interest from a few animation companies entitled S.O.S.
Heres a Joker I drew last year.
I also do art for Cosplayers and Models
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Hi there!
Hey there. My name's Jaclyn Sinquett, and I'm new to this blog - so thanks for the invite!
I'm working full time as a graphic designer for the book publishing company, Farrar Straus Giroux, up in Manhattan - but I'm also freelance illustrating. Since graduating in May from UArts in Philly, I've been working hard at FSG and have done two book covers - see below, a post from my blog:
Since starting work at FSG back in June, I've been fortunate enough to land the job of illustrating two book covers. The first was mostly photo manipulation, which isn't necessarily my particular medium of choice, but I think the finish turned out very well despite that fact. Sometimes using old, black and white photos on a jacket cover can feel really creepy, dusty, and dated - thus, the challenge. I thought making the image look more like a poster with an invigorating color scheme would draw young readers in - you know, outside of the involuntary withdraw from the library for a book report. Blogger seems to want to flatten the colors here, but just pretend it's about 3 shades brighter/stronger.
UPDATE: here's the cover WITH type - the designer's name is Jay Colvin!
After Claudette came the opportunity to illustrate for the cover of a book called Eidi. It's part 2 in a series of books called The Series of Crow Cove, and it's by Bodil Bredsdorff. This time I got to actually draw something, which made me crazy happy. The piece was very heavily art directed, as the editor and author knew exactly what they wanted to see. I was thrilled beyond words at just getting the chance, so I hopped on board and tried my best to create their vision. It's perhaps a bit more soft and confined than I'd have chosen to go, but I think the overall finished piece is still quite nice.
I was also fortunate enough to get to design the book as well, which is a rare thing. So, click below to see my illustration and design combo for Eidi, due to be released in Fall of 2009.
Thanks for looking! More soon.
I'm working full time as a graphic designer for the book publishing company, Farrar Straus Giroux, up in Manhattan - but I'm also freelance illustrating. Since graduating in May from UArts in Philly, I've been working hard at FSG and have done two book covers - see below, a post from my blog:
Since starting work at FSG back in June, I've been fortunate enough to land the job of illustrating two book covers. The first was mostly photo manipulation, which isn't necessarily my particular medium of choice, but I think the finish turned out very well despite that fact. Sometimes using old, black and white photos on a jacket cover can feel really creepy, dusty, and dated - thus, the challenge. I thought making the image look more like a poster with an invigorating color scheme would draw young readers in - you know, outside of the involuntary withdraw from the library for a book report. Blogger seems to want to flatten the colors here, but just pretend it's about 3 shades brighter/stronger.
UPDATE: here's the cover WITH type - the designer's name is Jay Colvin!
After Claudette came the opportunity to illustrate for the cover of a book called Eidi. It's part 2 in a series of books called The Series of Crow Cove, and it's by Bodil Bredsdorff. This time I got to actually draw something, which made me crazy happy. The piece was very heavily art directed, as the editor and author knew exactly what they wanted to see. I was thrilled beyond words at just getting the chance, so I hopped on board and tried my best to create their vision. It's perhaps a bit more soft and confined than I'd have chosen to go, but I think the overall finished piece is still quite nice.
I was also fortunate enough to get to design the book as well, which is a rare thing. So, click below to see my illustration and design combo for Eidi, due to be released in Fall of 2009.
Thanks for looking! More soon.
www.JSinquett.com
jaclyn@jsinquett.com
908-783-7876
Friday, January 2, 2009
scholastic book cover
At portfolioa day back in 07 I got super-lucky and blundered into a job with scholastic, doing some young-adult mystery book covers. Last week, while doing some holiday shopping, i stumbled across the first book for sale in Borders! definitely a pleasant surprise. i'll post the art for the next three covers as soon as i get the finished layout with type etc.i'm a huge nerd and totally excited about this!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Cover for Qui Vive! Press/215 Festival
Recently completed for Qui Vive! Press/Arcadia U:
In retrospect, I like the layout and color scheme but think it could have come together a little more smoothly.
Thoughts?
(P.S. I don't have time for the seasons show unfortunately, but check this out - www.215festival.com )
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Ridiculous/Awesome book covers
I picked up these two ridiculous books today solely because of their amazing/terrible book covers. Words don't describe. 50 cents apiece. While the covers seem cool, the content of the books seem lurid and mildly offensive...
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