Wildlife of DuPage County
The Wildlife of DuPage County book was part of a my senior project assignment for my re-branding of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. I used copyright free antique plant etchings in the background throughout the book as well as wildlife photography in the form of cutouts and rectangles.
Credits
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Many of the photos in this book come from google searches or flickr images. The photos that I personally took are the cover photo, the photos on the chapter header pages (woodlands, prairies, wetlands, and waterway), the red-spotted admiral, the red-tailed hawk cutout, the tiger swallowtail, the monarch cutout, the large widow skimmer dragonfly photo, the ebony jewelwing cutout, and the great blue heron cutout.
Children’s Books
Rosetta and the Unicorn
Rosetta and the Unicorn is a children’s story I wrote about the friendship of a Earth fairy and a Unicorn. I used my own drawing and watercolor art for this project.
Young Adult Book Cover Designs
My passion for young adult (YA) fiction ignited during the late 2000s and early 2010s, a golden age for paranormal romance and dystopian sci-fi within the genre. That era’s explosion of creativity profoundly influenced my artistic vision. Below, you’ll find a collection of conceptual book covers I designed, each aiming to capture the essence and excitement that makes YA fiction so compelling.
Crystaralight Chronicles
This five book series of cover was rendered in Adobe Photoshop with scanned in drawings, personal photography, and some digital painting. The Crystaralight Chronicles was a Young Adult fantasy book series I was planning to write. Breathless is a work-in-progress. It’s about a sixteen-year-old girl living in Chicagoland who finds out she a princess from the world called Crystaralight and has to track down other princess from her world and its seven moons.
Red Water
The Red Water book cover is photo I took at Porcupine Mountains State Park with slight color modification and a simple reflective typographic effect. The author quote is fake of course since this book is only a concept. This horror book’s premise is that dead bodies are washing up on the shores of Lake Superior, and some supernatural creature may be the killer.
The After Society
The After Society is a young adult dystopian series about 5 teens, each with a genetically enhance power, surviving is a world of zombies created by a alien bacteria from a meteor.
Cyclone
Cover for a short story about a tornado
Dream of Dusk
Book cover for a short story I wrote
Hyperion Teen Book Cover Contest Entries
These book cover were all created using my own photos and illustrations as per contest rules
