BES Album Art

New album art for BES.

Folktales and Legends of the Middle West

Here are a series of illustrations I did for Folktales and Legends of the Middle West by Edward McClelland. You can see the rest of the illustrations and read some great stories by purchasing the book over at Belt Publishing.

Cincinnati CityBeat Best Of

Had a lot of fun on this series of illustrations for Cincinnati Citybeat’s Best Of issue.

Creatures & Coffee

Had a blast hanging art with photographer Anthony Rodgers for our Nature Portraits show at Phoenix Coffee in Ohio City. Will have prints for sale at www.WORKDAVIDWORK.com soon!

Belt Book Covers

Dumping a load of new book covers I designed for Belt Publishing. One of the covers, Rust Belt Arcana, is for a book I’m doing over 20 illustrations for.

Cincinnati CityBeat

New illustration for the cover of Cincinnati CityBeat for their election issue.

After The Bear

I did this illustration about nine (give or take) years ago for an essay that Matt Stansberry wrote. Having always enjoyed Matt’s writing, this was the first piece he let me read that I NEEDED to make art for his writing. I still love the essay and am still proud of the art to accompany it. Glad to see it finally made it’s way onto the inter webs for everyone to read.

An article for hunters, fathers, sons, and exploring the depth of killing.
http://zoomorphic.net/2017/05/after-the-bear/

In The Watershed Book Cover

New book cover illustration and design I did for In The Watershed by Ryan Schnurr.

 

“Part cultural history, part nature writing, and part narrative, In the Watershed is a lyrical work of non-fiction in the vein of John McPhee and Ian Frazier with a timely and important warning at the core. “What is happening in Lake Erie,” Schnurr tells us, “is a disaster by nearly any measure—ecologically, economically, socially, culturally.””

Lovebirds Book 1 Preview and process

Here is the first chapter of LOVEBIRDS Book one “The Long Road” written and illustrated by David Wilson. Below the preview is a collection of process pictures with some notes. If you like what you see LOVEBIRDS is on sale at amazon here.

PROCESS

Character studies in sketchbook. None of these are meant to be perfect in any way. I like to do loose, quick sketches trying to capture the feel or look of a character. These drawings are more idea based than art based. Finding wardrobes, appearance quirks, etc.

Below are a couple process pics of making a cover image, ink splatting and color studies over quick layouts.

Cleveland Guidebook

I was recently commissioned with doing some illustrations for Belt’s Cleveland Guidebook. (Available here).