#Cover Illustration

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Latest cover commission for Jenna Wolfhart's Falling For Fables series.

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Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat

[myebi]

And the fire spirits went on, Free from the shackles of magic men, Vanished to the dry land Until every summer they choose to show, And they chant in triumph to the wails Of the ones who burned them

my contribution to Dames's latest issue, Fantasy Warriors ❤️‍🔥

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Southern Reach series (10th Anniversary Editions) by Jeff VanderMeer

Cover art by Pablo Delcan

MacMillan, 2014-2024

Annihilation (2014)

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything

Authority (2014)

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.

John Rodríguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.

In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.

Acceptance (2014)

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.

Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X—what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X—and who may have been corrupted by it?

In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.

Absolution (2024)

When the Southern Reach Trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestsellers list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature.

And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer there was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast—before Area X was called Area X—had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem?

Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, there are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time

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My illustration for the cover of 'A Curse Carved in Bone' by Danielle L. Jensen (sequel for 'A Fate Inked in Blood'), done for Del Rey Books/Penguin Random House.

Out May 13, 2025!

Intended to be a darker fiercer mirror of the first cover, I'm so glad they let me do it the way I imagined it!

[Prints available here]

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The bright bead of Dominicus winked benignly down from the mouth of the long vertical tunnel.

i promise i don’t exclusively draw tlt these days; it’s just that i started several sketches trying to get more of the *vibes* of specific scenes/environments in tlt so i can share my vision for people. for some reason i want to give the ninth a very sickly green glow, like the place is cartoonishly radioactive.

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Don't Let The Forest In Book cover illustration for CG Drews' novel Don't Let The Forest In published this October by Feiwel & Friends. It's a lush queer dark academia forest horror YA novel and will also feature some interior illustrations of mine. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Onwards to Adventure! Personal artwork, aiming to capture a pirates-but-for-kids vibe 🙂

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Cover illustration for Deva Fagan’s upcoming book A Game of Noctis 🌊

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Cover art commission for CodyMacArthurFett! This piece was finished just about a year ago, but now the story is published, so it's finally time for this cover to shine in my galleries~ "Hearts of Ice" is a holiday-themed murder mystery following Glynda, her new husband James Ironwood, and their kids as they try to unravel the dark deeds in a far northern village during the blackest time of the year.

You can read it now on: SpaceBattles, Archive of Our Own (AO3), Fanfiction, Sufficient Velocity

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what could have been!!

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Cover art for the 3rd book in the Gate Chronicles series by Alli Earnest. This one's actually almost 2 years old now but the cover's just been revealed so I finally get to share it!

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Made a cover illustration for my digital copy of The Hobbit! Made Bilbo stare directly at you cus I love a tiny pinch of meta in cover illustrations hehe x3 Gollum looks like he does in the movie but i redesigned him later lol ill post that sometime.

Image desc in ALT, pls click images for better quality!

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Cover illustration by PEM (Maurice Pepin), Le Sourire Cover, French Magazine, 1933

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The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman

Cover art by Ted CoConis

Ballantine Books, July 1974 First Paperback Edition

As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchman, rescued by a pirate, forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course of this dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini—the criminal philosopher who'll do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik—the gentle giant; Inigo—the Spaniard whose steel thirsts for revenge; and Count Rugen—the evil mastermind behind it all. Foiling all their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess Buttercup’s one true love and a very good friend of a very dangerous pirate.