I primarily use Adobe Photoshop for painting illustrations. These full paintings take anywhere from two to twelve hours, depending on the complexity. I do not use AI generated images in any way, shape, or form, not even as inspiration. This is all human made.
The Complete Package

From covers to stickers, maps and typography, I often create everything needed for an author to take their book from “vague idea” to “highly marketable.” In 2025, I was nominated for Best Universe Member – Artist for the Indieverse Awards.
Illustrations
When I’m not teaching, I take art commissions that interest me. Space Wizard Science Fantasy often fills my spare time and I have been one of their main freelance illustrators since 2021.
I have painted the interior illustrations for the following books:
- Distant Gardens, an science-fantasy anthology
- Farther Reefs, a companion anthology to Distant Gardens
- Lofty Mountains, a companion anthology to Distant Gardens
- Fiery Deeps, a companion anthology to Distant Gardens, in collaboration with Kristine Bayer
- The World of JUNO, a science-fantasy anthology that I wrote a story for as well as illustrated
- Ardulum: First Don, second edition, a science-fiction novel by J.S. Fields
- Ardulum: Second Don, second edition, the sequel to First Don
- Ardulum: Third Don, second edition, the final book of the Ardulum trilogy
- Ardulum: Tales from Ardulum, a collection of short stories starring the beloved characters of the Ardulum trilogy
- Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, a sapphic science fiction anthology (coming soon)
Covers
I have also painted the cover for the following books:
- Junk Junction, a middle grade horror by Sara Codair
- The Rosewood Penny, a fantasy romance by J.S. Fields
- Foxfire in the Snow, a coming-of-age fantasy by J.S. Fields
- Ocean of Fireflies, the sequel to Foxfire in the Snow
- The Slayer’s Magic, a young adult fantasy by C.J. Hosack
- The Traveler’s Magic, a sequel to The Slayer’s Magic
World of Juno
Space Wizard Science Fantasy asked me to not only illustrate The World of JUNO, a science-fantasy anthology, but also to write a short story for it. I wrote Ashfall on Jade, the tale of a small family attempting to escape when a volcano’s eruption threatens to destroy their underground city home.

Badges
During the summer of 2020, I was hired by Curiosity Untamed to create a reflection to go over each of their badge images. Curiosity Untamed wanted a 2D Photoshop solution, as rendering a 3D version of 27,000 badges was possible, but an expensive and time-consuming task. The challenge was to create a layered painting where each badge could be imported automatically underneath my painted reflection to create a 3D look.
Using a reference photo and Photoshop, I painted the reflection and shadow by hand on a computer-created flat grey circle. You can see the completed reflections all over Curiosity Untamed’s website.


Social Media
During the summer of 2019, I was in charge of creating media via Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Spark for Curiosity Untamed’s social media accounts. I then regularly posted these images through Hootsuite. When Curiosity Untamed decided to modernize and broaden its curriculum, I taught my social media successor before switching to writing said new curriculum.
All of these images were created using Curiosity Untamed’s flat badge images and commercial-use, royalty-free images from sites such as Pexels and Pixabay. I used photomanipulation and painting to combine these images. On average, it would take me roughly fifteen to twenty minutes to create one social media image, depending on the complexity.