"Your Time to Shine" Children's Book Cover Illustration

 Hi, I'm really excited to share some news with you. Just this past month I was given the privilege of illustrating a Children's Book Cover for an Author and Writer whose name is, "Cindy Dorman Genis" who is having her book published through Quincentennial Publishing | A Unique Business eBook Publisher and Green Oak Publishing which is operated by Holistic Organizational Development and Training (HODT Inc.)

 I spoke to the Founder and CEO which happens to be a Professor and Author himself. All in all a really nice guy. Here's his twitter page if you are an Author or Writer with plans on publishing a book?

 As I was saying, I just completed a Children's Book Cover which is actually an eBook for the Author and Publisher and I wanted to share it with the World!

 So here it is... Oh and the blue part I added as a complementary effect so the image wouldn't get lost in the black background and besides it looks more cheerful in the blue color. The eBook is actually a Standard Trade Paperback size of 6" x 9". Here take a look and tell me what you think? Don't be shy, I welcome any comments.

"All rights reserved" The copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all the rights provided by copyright law, such as distribution, performance, and creation of derivative works.

The Book will be available soon through Quincentennial Publishing | A Unique Business eBook Publisher

Well I hope you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed creating it and remember, if you need a Book project that demands excellence and the utmost attention, you know where to go... Just click on those links above.

Ok, by for now folks and goodnight. I'll meet you here when I post some of my work from my Portfolio on this Blog tomorrow, see ya then.

Dust Jacket (mock-up) for a Fictitious Novel

Dust Jacket (2D digital mock-up) for a Fictitious Novel that I designed just this past month. Time it took to design was exactly 3 days at approximately 4 hours a day.

This will be posted up on my two Portfolios soon.

Here are several small previews, large sized images will be on my Portfolios.

(RPF) Ready for Print file

Front Cover (only)

DJ Layout

This is an example of the usual finished product I would have prepared for a client that needs a Book Dust Jacket that is fully ready and laid out for print or ready to go directly to the Editor/Publisher.

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Please don't hesitate to drop me a line or contact me about your next endeavor.

Thank You.

UPDATE: If you've been watching and following this blog, well I apologize but there's going to be some changes. There's been some huge changes going on behind the curtains with this Blog really. I'm re-arranging it, everything from the content that has been posted to the looks of it as a whole and that explains the pause in posts or lack thereof. It will no longer be called "Merch Attacks" anymore and that explains why you see that strange annoying b/w symbol in place of it now, instead the name is being changed to my official freelance Illustration and Graphic Design business name, "Thomas Luca Art & illustration™" blog. The link to this blog is now http://tomlucaart.blogspot.com/ In fact it is one of two of my main Blogs. What I will be doing here from now on is blogging links or sometimes the recent or old images of my sketches, drawings, illustrations and work I am creating for Editors, Publishers, Art Directors, Client commissions and more.

This will be my Illustration side out of all my Blogs, however I do have another Blog named "Paintings" which I am in the process of changing also to "Luca Fine Arts™" which will be for me blogging latest news and images of my sketches, drawings, paintings and work I am creating for Fine Art Gallery Shows and Exhibitions plus my online Galleries which I curate and you can find all them here at http://about.me/thomasluca and that includes my Freelance Illustration and Graphic Design work as well, I actually use that website as my online business card.