"The Goldfinch," by Donna Tartt

Sometimes I think one of the challenges of designing and illustrating the Book Review is that book jacket designers do too good a job. You think you came up with some brilliant idea and then you look at the actual book cover and you're like, "Crap, they already thought of that." So, thanks all you lovely book designers for making my life more difficult! This cover was definitely one of those instances.

Here's my book review cover illustration for The Goldfinch, by  Donna Tartt and reviewed by S. Kirk Walsh. I hope I did it justice, because the book jacket is really lovely.

Celine Loup + "The Signature of All Things," by Elizabeth Gilbert

 

Lovely illustration by Celine Loup for The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, reviewed by Ashley Nelson. Thanks, Celine!

McKayla Maroney

Illustration of Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney for the story "Gravity's Rainbow" by Louisa Thomas, for Grantland Quarterly, issue 5. Pleased as punch to be in the same issue with my buds Nick Iluzada and Niv Bavarsky. Thanks to AD Juliet Litman for the assignment!