Frank Stockton Art

Hey guys,

A few months ago, I did this cover for Tor. It's for an upcoming mash-up of Tom Sawyer and Zombies. I've read it, and it is every bit as awesome as it sounds.

I'm also doing several interior illustrations for the book in black & white.



Here are a couple of process pieces - the original sketch, which was drawn both in Photoshop and with Sharpie. The "red" colored version is another one I drew that I ended up abandoning.

And in other news, the PRINTS section of my site is now functional. If you want to order something for Christmas, be sure to make your purchase by Monday, December 18th.

Have a great week!

Frank

Labels: covers, prints, Tom Sawyer, tor, zombies

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

Labels: covers, irene gallo, lions, point man, steven englehart, tor

Way back in October 2008 I was contacted about doing a cover by Irene Gallo of Tor books for a new novel called The Long Man written by long-time comic writer Steve Englehart.

After doing some initial loose sketches for feedback, the job was placed on the backburner for a while and I eventually forgot about it.

However, late in January the job started back up again and we were able to flesh out the concept for the book a little better. I would describe the concept of the story if I was able to do so accurately--hopefully you get a sense for it from my cover, though.


I ended up doing two versions of the cover, but the brighter colored version is what's going to be published. I think it will stand out more that way. The less saturated version, however, is my favorite of the two.


If you haven't noticed, the process piece I posted a few weeks ago was actually used in this illustration.

The Long Man is scheduled to be released on August 4, 2009.


best,

Frank

Labels: book, covers, engelhart, gallo, long man, process