Petrik Leo

The UK cover of A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES. A woman stands with her first raised. Behind her stands a man in a cloak and a hazy blue figure wielding an axe and a mace.

The North American cover of A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES. A woman stands with her first raised. Behind her stands a man in a cloak and a hazy blue figure wielding an axe and a mace.

Here it is! The gorgeous cover of Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES

Out 7th April 2026 (UK)
June 9th 2026 (US/Can)

Artwork by Richard Anderson. Cover design by Ben Prior.

Preorders open now!

Got my author copies of the Broken Binding special edition of Kings of the Wyld and they are absolutely glorious.

COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️

Massive kudos to the TBB folks, @petrikleo.bsky.social & whoever got this project initiated. Jonathan French’s Lot Land series is getting all the love it deserves & Raymond Swanland cover art 🔥🔥🔥

Drawing Details from my work on The Green Bone Saga, by @fondalee.bsky.social. (1/4)

Prints of this piece are still available through the end of the week at www.tommyarnoldart.com/prints! The drawing is everything (and it isn't easy for me), so when it comes to drawing: stay cut, keke 💚💪

A few characters are hiking up a hill, with a large city visible fare behind them. At the forefront is Fola, a powerfull sorceress, and her bird.

Cover illlustration for @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social 's edition of "The Tower of the Tyrant"

On my wall too!!

This is going to look SO GOOD on my wall

Happy birthday to @fondalee.bsky.social's "Jade City," B1 in The Green Bone Saga! I went nuts painting a huge montage of characters and moments from the series, for @orbitbooks.bsky.social's box set.

Now, for 7 days only, oversized prints of the art are available here: www.tommyarnoldart.com/prints

Happy Halloween!🎃

Another sketch based on The Will of the Many ~

(Craving having the time to do a big personal piece that isn't just a sketch one of these days...)

#bookart

Only 3 days left to grab prints! A storming big thank-you to everyone who's picked one up so far ❤️🌩️

Hold onto your Spren! My official painting of Kaladin Stormblessed, from the great @brandonsanderson.com is now available as a limited-edition print for 5 days ONLY! I'm also offering exclusive second-editions of my other #stormlight work for this very limited time.
➡️www.micahepsteinart.com/prints

✨Mein Sehnen ✨
New piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, featuring Lúthien Tinúviel from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

#art #juliametzgerart

We are so excited to reveal our special edition set of The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells in association with Tor Books 🤖😍

A contrast of two worlds set atop a tower spire. The left is elegantly detailed with elvish artistry while the right looks crumbled and weathered. Drifting from the background left to right, smoke rises off onion domes of the city. As it crosses the spire, the smoke transforms to cloud cover. An elvish male stares off in the distance with his white cloak partially wrapping his arm and his spear pointed down over his knee. There is a green metallic sheen to his leg armor. He holds an ornate shield, pearlescent green at the edges and white at the center, decorated with glyphs bound in a pink circle. Kneeling next to him is an elvish female wearing a pink and purple cloak. Holding a slender sword in one hand, she grips the thin railing that sits low over architectural detail, broad white leaves. On the other side of the spire, a human female glances haughtily at the audience with a bow held out, braced on her hip. Kneeling next to her, a blonde bearded male with a snowy lock glances over. He rests his sword back on his shoulder while holding a simple wooden shield in his offhand. His pants are torn; her cloak is tattered. Their side of the tower is made of crude snow covered stone, underlining a different reality.

GREEN ANGEL TOWER (1993)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”

The cover art for the final installment of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a terrific fantasy series by Tad Williams. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and changed the landscape of publishing. 1/6

We are super excited to reveal our very first collectible trading card for The Band series by Nicholas Eames!

Happy #portfolioday to all who celebrate!

I'm Evelyne, painting book illustrations in acrylics... especially for Gothic horror, fantasy, but also colourful sci-fi, always focused on characters.

www.evydraws.com/portfolio
✉️ evydrawsillustration@gmail.com

"Raphael, Tag Team Tough"
AD: Merideth Mulroney

One of those rare occasions you'll see me doing Universe Beyond.

I probably wouldn’t be an artist if it weren’t for TMNT, so I owed it to my younger self <3
#mtgtmnt

A hand holding up a paperback edition of Mike Shackle’s “We Are The Dead” against a clear blue sky. A yellow bookmark pokes out of the top of the book.

📖 Started reading @mikeshackle.bsky.social’s ”We Are The Dead“ for lunch #HammockTime 😎

I got the rec. a while ago from @petrikleo.bsky.social over on the #BookTube.

Picked out to #Readalong with IAAF’s @nssecretbookaholic.bsky.social and @lisadoeslife.bsky.social.

⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

FFVII and now God of War... THANK YOU, Magali! 😍

Off to a new home.
The oil painting 'Honor for the Dragon' has just landed in a private collection along side two of my other dragon works. The work was featured as cover art on this years 2025 DragonCon program book as I returned to the convention after 15 years as the Artist Guest.
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- Kratos, God of War -
When the first GOW was released, I was amazed by how crazy ambitious and powerful the game was. I did my best to express the strong impact it had on me through this illustration.
#mtg #GodofWar #playstation

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#BookCovers

(Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)

Final Fantasy 6. Easily. The gameplay is super outdated (to me), but the story, music, and characters are amazing. FF XV has some glaring issues, especially in pacing and the final act. Actually, I'm playing XVI right now and the pacing is atrocious. 5 minutes walking/batte, 15-20 minutes cutscene!😅

A digital painting of the Knight from Hollow Knight exploring Hallownest

A digital painting of Hornet from Silksong standing in a field of flowers

Put up both of these on my INPRNT Shop!

A cloaked and armored figure raises his sword in salute to a tiny figure in the distance separated by a chasm of broken earth shrouded by mist. A massive storm cell winds gray and blue across the sky intersecting the tip of the extended sword. A bright line of blue runs across the clouds as if etched by the unusual half-hilted, wavy blade. The orange cloak covering most of the figure (as viewed from behind) is decorated with a mass of wild crustacean arms ending in crescent claws. The icon on the pennant, flying tall on a pole held offhand, depicts a crab-like creature. The sky to the right of the storm is tinted warm yellow as the sun peeks out. A sliver of moon can be seen in a blue-sky break between the clouds. In the background left forks of lightning strike at the distant mountains on the horizon.

In this week's newsletter, behind the scenes illustrating a modern fantasy classic...The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson!

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Endpaper art for @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social special edition of "Midnight Tides",
Malazan book of the fallen 5.

Art director: @petrikleo.bsky.social

knife 🗡️
#Mistborn #Vin #Cosmere

Happy release day to the very special Orbit Gold edition of the trilogy of my heart. 💚 Thank you @orbitbooks.bsky.social and @tommyarnoldart.com (Last day to take advantage of the 20% preorder discount! Link below.)