Painting + John K

Here's a painting I did from life a few weeks ago, just for fun. Oil painting is so much fun...

Also, I recently stumbled onto one of the coolest blogs on the internet. From the man who brought us Ren & Stimpy is... the legendary John K!

Stay warm & dry,

Frank

The Point Man

Here's a recent book cover I created for Irene Gallo of Tor Books.





The Point Man is the original story that came before my first job with Irene, The Long Man, of which I also did the cover for, earlier this year. Both novels were written by acclaimed comic book and screenwriter Steven Englehart.



An interesting thing that happened while working on this job was that I had to totally shift direction when it was about 80% complete, because the editor wanted some changes that would better reflect the story within. Fortunately, Irene let me take a couple weeks off to get the flaming magic skull version out of my system; I really doubt I could have done as good of a job if I had to immediately re-do the piece.









While I wasn't happy with that decision originally, I am glad that things turned out the way they did. This is my favorite cover to date, but I hope to top it in the near future!

Best,

frank