Daringly & Originally Illustrated Tales with Darker Twists

• HB Wallen, as an artist, has been doodling and painting since childhood. In those years, she created and sold numerous painted canvases, farm art on whatever, and cover art for books. Twenty years ago, she started writing. HB Wallen just adores the glorious fib, the art of storytelling, spinning darker fantasy narratives of legends, myths, and lore. She has written eight books, all in the fantasy genre, all a bit dark. What took so long to finalize and move to publishing? They are all illustrated with her original art.

For HB Wallen, it was impossible to separate the art from the writing, 

so in the end, she didn’t.

•  HB has spent 15-plus years playing with art digitally. That's a lot of time messing around in the evolution of digital applications. Among the current and perhaps better-known apps, she has used Adobe Photoshop, Publisher, and Dreamweaver—and may we never forget the imaginative and golden days of Flash on the internet. Toss Corel Painter into the bucket of apps along with Paint Shop Pro. Since its launch, her favorite apps of use for art and book design on her 24” Wacom Pro are Affinity Photo and Publisher—but that's today :0)

• In the end, there is nothing better than a pencil in a free-hand! 

• Draw it. 

• Scan it. 

• Paint it digitally. 

• Her morgue file is stuffed.