Fantasy Book Cover Artist – Dan Dos Santos

When you’re browsing for something new to read at your local bookstore, what makes you stop and pick up a particular book? For me it’s the cover art. If I see a book with an awesome cover, I’ll pick it up just to examine the design more closely. Sometimes, based on the book’s synopsis, I’ll purchase the book – sometimes not.

I’m happy to say that there’s one group of books that hits it on both counts: they’re incredibly well written and the cover art is awesome:

The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. The cover art is provided by Dan Dos Santos.

Check out some of Dan’s work:

This is the book cover for the new Mercy Thompson book titled “Silver Borne” by Patricia Briggs. It’s due to hit the streets in March 2010.

Isn’t this awesome!

I could stare at this illustration for hours.

Here’s an illustration for the movie Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

This illustration won the 2009 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration! Yea Dan!

Here’s the cover art for the book Ancient Bloodlines.










Dan is an awesome artist isn’t he? Check out more of his art in his gallery at DanDosSantos.Com. Enjoy!