flame in the mist | Francesca Resta illustrations

About me

Francesca Resta is an Italian illustrator based in London, UK.

A long time reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, she turns to the fantasy genre also with her illustrations. Her love for the human figure poses the characters at the center of her works and she finds her inspiration in books and myths, but also movies and videogames.


She works freelance as a book cover artist and illustrator while also working as a concept artist for PlayNGo in London.

Her illustrations are digital, painted with Corel Painter and Photoshop, and she keeps striving to improve her art and learning through workshops, mentorships and courses with some of the best artists out there, like Dan Dos Santos, Donato Giancola and Gianni De Conno.

In 2021, she received a Chesley Award in the Best Magazine Illustration category for her cover for Clarkesworld 169

Clients

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A selection of books with my paintings on the cover

Poirot & Miss Marple

Agatha Christie

Mondadori

Adventure

Rehema Rosazza

La Corte Editore

Estrella

Ermanno Detti

Giunti Editore

Smoke in the Sun

Renée Ahdieh

Penguin/Putnam

Scarlet and Ivy - The Dance in the Dark

Sophie Cleverly

Sourcebooks

Glow

Megan E. Bryant

Albert Whitman

Nina e L'arca della Luce

Moony Witcher

Giunti

Scarlet and Ivy - The Whispers in the Walls

Sophie Cleverly

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Flame in the Mist

Renée Ahdieh

Penguin/Putnam

A un passo dalle stelle

Daniela Palumbo

Giunti

Scarlet and Ivy - The Lost Twin

Sophie Cleverly

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Secrets of the Manor

Adele Whitby

Simon and Schuster

Voci dall'oscurità book cover voices in the dark mondadori catherine banner

Voci dall'Oscurità

Catherine Banner

Mondadori