Steampunk Characters for Gearworks I had the pleasure of working with Kirk Dennison of PieceKeeper Games, on their board game Gearworks. I provided steampunk art for the marvellous machine building strategy game. Gearworks “Gearworks is a strategy card game for 1-4 players where you compete to build fantastical contraptions. For fans
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100 Pieces of Board Game Art
100 illustrations for Monarchs of Camelot Back in 2023 I had the pleasure of working with board game publisher Rhapsody Games on their debut title, Monarchs of Camelot. I did over 100 board game illustrations for the game and I took a few minutes today to round them all up
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Common mistakes in book cover design
Book Cover Design Tips – The single biggest mistake you don’t want to make… A book cover gives your prospective reader their first insight into the story within. If it’s going to be suitable for them, and they will invest their time and money in your writing. That’s what they
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Top Ten Fantasy Tropes
Top Ten Fantasy Tropes for Authors In my quest (pun intended) for fantasy genre work, I love digging around for details on what makes fantasy authors and artists tick. Fantasy has been shaped over hundreds of years from mythology spanning continents, through to works of fiction by CS Lewis and
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What are hybrid authors?
What is a hybrid author? Hybrid authors are writers who publish their work through both traditional publishing and self-publishing avenues. . This trend is great for the self-publishing community as it highlights a growing acceptance of self-publishing as a legitimate avenue for authors to maintain creative control and reach their
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