Joshua Griffin

Joshua Griffin – Designer

Digital Painter + Designer for Fantasy✨ and Sci-Fi🚀- I stand out by reading the manuscript, guiding authors, and creating promo art!

Overview

If you want a cover artist that will deeply care about your story. I'm your guy!


I start by asking you questions and actually reading your manuscript myself. This gives me a chance to fall in love with your characters and your world myself so I can create art that truly resonates with it. This means you're story can be wrapped your in an authentic tribute to your hard work. And it means you'll have a cover that not only attracts your ideal readers, but which means something to them once they've read it too.


As a bonus, by reading the story I can use my marketing eye to highlight the sticky moments--the excerpts that can ignite curiosity in your potential readers. I breakdown these insights with my authors and help direct those sticky morsels into slick promotional images using the final artwork.


My specialty is in painting characters for Urban Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Middle Grade Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy, and Sci-fi covers, but I can lend my style and insights to the other fiction genres without a hitch.


For a breakdown of my process:

- Immersion - were you'll answer a questionnaire about your book and I read over your manuscript

- Sketching and Revisions - where I'll share my insights and recommendations while making sure you're excited with the vision

- Painting - where I take reference photos and illustrate your gorgeous cover art

- Finishing - where we wrap up your book with a print-ready-PDF, ebook cover, and stunning promotional art to help it stand out online (see my 'Starter Kit' in the gallery below for a visual breakdown of all the goodies)


My services include Illustration, Cover Design, Art Direction, Exterior Typography, and Promotional Images for social media. All of it is comes in my standard ‘Starter Kit’ along with a dash of my good humour. 😉


Don't hesitate to send through your request for a tailored offer.


I look forward to diving into your story and illustrating it for the world with a cover that will resonate as soundly for you and your readers as it does for me!

Services
Fiction
Dystopian Epic Fantasy Gaming & LitRPG Magical Realism Romantic Fantasy Space Opera Urban Fantasy Young Adult Fantasy
Languages
English

Work experience

Freelance

Oct, 2018 — Present
- Illustrating artwork and designing book covers for self-publishing authors

Portfolio

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Regna Born (The Regna Sagas Book 1)

Holmberg, Erick

NineStar Press

Cover Design Illustration Typography
Cover Design Illustration Typography
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A Slayer's Reckoning

Cross, Ariel

Cover Design Illustration Typography
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Don't Fear the Reaper

Lawson, Abby

Cover Design Illustration Typography
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CHILD OF ANOTHER KIND

DECKER, STEVEN

Cover Design Illustration Typography
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Insignitis: Destiny

Anderson, Leighann

Cover Design Illustration Typography
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Eternal Hero (Omniverse Chronicles Book 1)

Grace, William

Cover Design Illustration Typography

Joshua has 24 reviews

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SarahLee W.

SarahLee W.

Dec, 2024

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I can't recommend working with Josh as a cover artist high enough! If you are searching for someone who is as passionate as you are yourself about creating a cover that does you book justice he is your guy! He is insanely talented and the cover he created for me is absolutely breathtaking: captu...
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Joshua G.
Thank you so much Sarah, it means a lot to hear such glowing words! I really enjoyed reading through your story and getting to know the nuance of your characters while working on it. A highlight fo...
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Hannah B.

Hannah B.

Sep, 2024

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Josh is an extremely talented artist and has been an absolute pleasure to work with. He took my vision for the book and brought his own ideas to create an absolute masterpiece. His responses were prompt and he was always accommodating, even bringing forward the deadline by a week to help me with ...
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Joshua G.
It was an absolute pleasure Hannah! Reading your book story alone was a delight in itself, but then being able to stew on it, connect the dots, and work with you to develop the vision for the final...
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Erick H.

Erick H.

Apr, 2024

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Both me and my publisher are very pleased with Josh’s work and professionalism. He even came up with an Easter Egg on the book cover that’s so good I was I had thought of it. He respects the material and includes you in his process
Joshua G.
Thanks Erick, it was a pleasure working with you! And reading through the manuscript, internalizing the story, and weaving easter eggs into the cover are some of my favourite parts of the job! Th...
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Marci (mom) & Isabella (daughter/ author) L.

Marci (mom) & Isabella (daughter/ author) L.

Jan, 2025

Joshua is such an incredible artist, but I don't need to tell you that. (Just look at his work!) What I do need to emphasize for you is that his communication as the process unfolds is outstanding. He checks in. He makes sure everyone is on the same page. He asks to input. Also, he is very easy g...
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Joshua G.
Thank you so much! I'm thrilled I was able to be a part of the journey with both of you and it warms my hear to know you guys had such a good experience! I had a great time working on it and I'm lo...
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Morgan L.

Morgan L.

Oct, 2024

My books cover art came out really amazing! I’m really happy with the end result and look forward to working with Josh in the future for my next projects in the series!
Joshua G.
It was a pleasure working with you Morgan! Here's looking forward to the sequel where we can show off Nathan (or his friends) even more!

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