Book cover—a digital illustration combining elements from eight different photographs.
This custom reference map of Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions is located on the front end-pages of Reefs and highlights endangered sea creature aggregations referenced throughout the book.
I designed the opening and closing pages of Reefs (tile page, copyright and acknowledgements pages, this contents spread, authors page and the rear index pages) to look like a scrap book/photo album containing digitally stylized family photographs o
Reefs opens with a Prologue and a visual concept which required me to digitally convert a coral reef photograph into a jigsaw puzzle.
Chapter 8 of Reefs features a grandfather’s photo album of past ocean fishing adventures.  I digitally illustrated the image for this spread utilizing more than 50 images, many of which I scanned, photographed and composed for this piece. ____
ReefsBook-Lionfish-11&12-GutterShadows.jpg
ReefsBook-Aggregation-23&24-GutterShadows.jpg
ReefsBook-HongKong-37&38-GutterShadows.jpg
ReefsBook-Aggregation-GutterShadows.jpg
ReefsBook-Choices-47&48-GutterShadows.jpg
ReefsBook-ReturnToCaribb-65&66-GutterShadows.jpg
This custom reference map of Western Pacific regions is located on the back end-pages of Reefs and highlights endangered sea creature aggregations referenced throughout the book.
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