the Hubble telescope with a fanciful stellar background. Collection of Robert MacIntosh. link to galleries contact the artist






L.W. Perkins Art and Illustration

I've had my own freelance art business for over twenty years now, doing portraits, t-shirt designs,dvd and cd covers and astronomical and fantasy-themed art. I also create digital illustrations using Photoshop, Poser and Bryce. I belong to two professional organizations, The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (I was the coordinator for ASFA's 15th Annual Chesley Awards) and the International Association of Astronomical Artists. In the last three years I have done book covers forLiquid Silver Books, Dragon Moon Press, Prime Books, MageSpell Press and for Wildside Press, and had tutorials included in Michael Burn's Femme Digitale (Watson-Guptill, 2003) and Digital SciFi Art (Harper Design,2004). I've done DVD covers for Vintage Home Entertainment and for Virgil Productions, and some advertising work for a Philadelphia area advertising firm, as well as numerous private commissions. I've won awards (and software;-) for my digital art pieces, and had digital astro pieces appear on the BBC's The Sky at Night. I'm also working on an ongoing series of fine art astronomical paintings.

I am always looking for new book-related work, so if you see something interesting here, contact me. I am also happy to refer work to my talented friends if there is nothing here that suits your needs. I would like to especially recommend my friend Christina Yoder (dragonart@mac.com) for any Illustrator/vector artwork you may need--I team up with her for many of the covers I do (she does layout and design as well as some illustration). Thank you for visiting!