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I’m an Australian freelance artist and designer with over a decade of professional work in the publishing industry.

Wh/ether it’s photo-composite, digital illustration, or mixed tangible media: it’s all made with my (quite small) human hands.

Photo-composite, digital illustration, mixed media art: Whatever your vision, I’m keen.

Throw me your most fantastical and gruesome. Brownies points if you want to get messy with paint and real props.

My border collie is my supervisor and is paid in pats and ball throws.

A naked woman with chest cracked open spilling bone and flowers. The lady is holding her black dripping teeth and her mouth is open in a scream revealing vampire fangs. The book cover is also fractured by broken glass | Deadly Syn Illustrated Cover Design and Art By Dayna for Australian Author J. Lee
Features a silhouette of a running victorian man in a trenchcoat with magazine about disappearances and murders flying around him | Book cover illustration and design by Dayna for Australian Author Jonathan Maloney for small press SkyNation Publishing
Features a colourful space explosion / implosion with a spaceship escaping | Stars Apart Sci-Fi Complex Illustration and Design By Dayna for Australian Author Nathan Greaves and Small Press SkyNation Publishing
Gothic Gatsby style Book Cover illustrated and designed By Dayna features a romantic 1920s couple with the man going for a vampiric bite on the woman's neck

Dayna used to share regular creative process videos and images to her social media, but due to ongoing unethical IP thief under the guise of “AI Diffusion training”, she refuses to even with “poisoning”. Instead she will post them directly to this website. When she remembers.

(From Left to Right) Authors Kiki Townley and Aleisha Jade with Dayna at Tales and Tomes 'Falling in Fiction' Sunshine Coast 2027 with Cookies of Dayna's Cover Art: Stars Apart from SkyNation Publishing and Red Masquerade by Shaye Madison
(From Left to Right) Authors Kiki Townley and Aleisha Jade with Dayna at Tales and Tomes ‘Falling in Fiction’ Sunshine Coast 2027 with Cookies of Dayna’s Cover Art: Stars Apart from SkyNation Publishing and Red Masquerade by Shaye Madison

A LIL’ LOVE FOR DAYNA

WHERE AM I

Australia.

I’m Aussie mate.

But work globally.

WHEN DO I WORK

Tuesday to Thursday, mostly.

Depends on how busy I am.

(I also teach piano)

HOW DO I CONTACT YOU

bookcovers@bydayna.au

art@bydayna.au

info@bydayna.au

MY AI STANCE

I do not support the current commercial and state-sponsored development of Artificial Narrow Intelligence. I do not use LLM or Diffusion (Generative) technology.

Read More On My Stance Here

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NOW BOOKING UNTIL APRIL 2027 WITH SELECT OPENINGS STILL AVAILABLE FOR NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2026.

Book Cover features a smug attractive royal man on a throne with a vengeful skeleton angel of death looming over the top of him | Champion of Death by Wadzanai Mufunde Illustrated and Designed By Dayna
Gothic Gatsby style Book Cover illustrated and designed By Dayna features a romantic looking almost married in their dress, clutched in an intimate dance embrace.
Whisper of Secrets Illustration and Design Book Cover Art By Dayna for Author Rhea Lockhart featuring ravens and flowers in a mysterious dark gothic front cover.
Gothic Gatsby style Book Cover illustrated and designed By Dayna features a romantic 1920s couple with the man going for a vampiric bite on the woman's neck
Queer Scifi Thriller Stuck in Repeat Illustrated Book Cover and Design By Dayna for Anastasia Lynette; book cover features a blue, red, and purple theme showing a black woman holding a knife reflecting a hooded killer and a singer reflected
Features a silhouette of a running victorian man in a trenchcoat with magazine about disappearances and murders flying around him | Book cover illustration and design by Dayna for Australian Author Jonathan Maloney for small press SkyNation Publishing
Minimal Gothic Illustrated Book Cover for J M Nelson By Dayna; features a old fortress tower and a broken rook chess piece in red against a black background
Custom photo-composite with typography focussed book cover art By Dayna for Renee April and SkyNation Publishing for Molten Crown Trilogy and His Throne of Embers Book Two; shows a gold title text that is burning away
PhotoComposite Scifi Cover featuring galaxy overlay and a woman with a weapon by Dayna for L A. Marie
Bestselling Original Series Omnibus Photo Composite Bookcover By Dayna featuring burning black demonic wings for Laura Thalassa's Bargainer series
Custom photo-composite with typography focussed book cover art By Dayna for Renee April and SkyNation Publishing for Molten Crown Trilogy and Her Crown of Fire Book One featuring under sea imagery and burning embers and gold title
Dystopian Romance Book Cover Amity for Danica Peck by Dayna featuring a beautiful woman with purple hair and eyes with gold title that is flecking away
Keeping Bad Secrets Photocomposite Book Cover by Dayna for Rita Stradling featuring the iconic title style and a woman in the sea
Photocomposite epic fantasy book cover by dayna for Annie Cosby featuring a medieval sword with a blood red ribbon floating around
Book Cover Design By Dayna for Swoon Romance Publishing and Rachel Schiffelbein; photograph background by beth mitchell, an australian photographer, and features a woman with blonde hair swept backwards with purple flowers surrounding
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