ABOUT DRI GOMEZ
Art By: @drigomez on Instagram
Dri Gomez (she/her) has been creating art ever since she can remember. She was a shy kid, so her passion for drawing started as a crutch to make friends and share her thoughts. She didn’t consider sharing art online until she was in her mid-teens, but she always filled her notebooks entirely with art, particularly of her favorite books and comics at the time.
Although she studied a non-art-related degree at university, making art never stopped being her passion, regardless of what she was doing. It took her some time before she realized that nothing else made her as happy as creating art did, and she’s fortunate enough to be able to dedicate most of her days to making art.
Dri mainly makes her art digitally, but she also has a passion for inking and recently started painting with gouache. She believed that it’s very important to pick up more than one medium as an artist, if possible, as every medium teaches you something different and valuable.
Where do you find inspiration
for your designs?
Art is something that is so tied to stories for me. In my working life, I take inspiration from the source books and games I get the honor to be a part of! But even in my personal work, a lot of it derives from things like tabletop roleplaying games that I’m an avid player of! I feel like my passion for art is so intrinsically tied to my love of stories and narratives.
Do you have a favorite piece of art you've created to date? What makes it special to you?
My favorite pieces of art tend to be my TTRPG personal art, mostly because I make it for my friends. I love fandom, so I love giving back to it, but there is no joy bigger to me than having a skill that allows me to share snapshots with the people I love most of our favorite characters and stories we make together.
DRI GOMEZ X OWLCRATE
Photo credits: @thebookscript on Instagram
Dri Gomez (@drigomez) is the artist behind:
- The printed hardcover case art on the OwlCrate editions of City of Gods and Monsters by Kayla Edwards, which was featured in the April 2026 ‘Devil I Know' Quarterly Romantasy box.
- The end pages in the OwlCrate edition of A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon J. Spann, which was featured in the February 2026 'Let the Games Begin' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The end pages in the OwlCrate edition of All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu, which was featured in the November 2025 'A Dream Within a Dream' OwlCrate Quarterly Sci-Fi box.
- The Legends Rest Stop Book Ends which where featured in the Legends & Lattes & Lore Books & Goodies box.
- The exclusive reversible dust jackets on the OwlCrate editions of Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo, which were part of the Into The Grishaverse: Shadow And Bone Trilogy limited edition box. She also created one of the tip-in artwork illustrations.
- The exclusive reversible dust jackets on the OwlCrate editions of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, which were part of the Into The Grishaverse: Six Of Crows Duology limited edition box.
- The redesigned cover art and exclusive end pages (different front and back on all books) in the OwlCrate editions of The Raven Boys (featured in The Raven Cycle Anniversary box), The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater.
- The exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate edition of A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim, which was featured in the June 2025 'A Brush With Destiny' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The end pages in the OwlCrate edition of The Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid, which was featured in the April 2025 'The Edge Of A New Dawn' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate edition of The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch, which was featured in the 2024 Holiday Box.
- The page overlay set (alongside @chaaistheanswer) to go with the OwlCrate edition of Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma, which was featured in the October 2024 'Bleed You Dry' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate edition of Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin, which was featured in the May 2024 'Traverse The Realms' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The end pages in the OwlCrate edition of The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin, which was featured in the April 2024 'The Corrupted Crown' Adult Fantasy box.
- The exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate edition of Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, which was featured in the May 2023 'Against All Odds' Young Adult Fantasy Box. She also designed the exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate limited edition of Ruthless Vows.
- The Howl’s Moving Castle-inspired art print featured in the February 2022 'Among The Monsters’ Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate edition of Dreams Lie Beneath by Rebecca Ross, which was featured in the November 2021 'Dreaming In The Dark' Young Adult Fantasy Box.
- The art on the 300pc jigsaw puzzle featured in the October 2021 'Wield Your Blade' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The Raven Boys-inspired book sleeve featured in the August 2021 'Dark Academia' Young Adult Fantasy box.
- The exclusive reversible dust jacket on the OwlCrate edition of Blessed Monsters by Emily A. Duncan.
“I had the honor of working on many books I adore with OwlCrate, but the covers for the 10th anniversary of The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater will always be special in that I was such an avid participant in the fandom for years before I was approached for it. I end up falling for so many of the stories I have had a chance to experience with OwlCrate, but I never even considered being able to leave my mark on The Raven Cycle fandom in this way. It made me feel so honored and grateful, and we worked so hard on it! I just don’t have enough words to describe how special it was to even just get that first email.”
What are some of your favorite
books or authors?
As I just gushed about The Raven Cycle, I would put it up there as one of my favorite series. In general, I tend to read many books by a lot of different authors, so it’s hard to say if I have a favorite author. Fantasy and horror are my favorite genres, so I love to see books that mix the two!
