Bob
Eggleton: A successful and extremely gifted science fiction, fantasy and landscape
artist. Winner of 9 Hugo Awards,12 Chesley Awards, The 1999 Skylark Award and 2
Locus Awards, his wonderful art can be seen on many magazines and books.
Boris Vallejo:
An accomplished artist with a great volume of work in the Fantasy and Science
Fiction fields. Boris has
worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy
line. He has also illustrated album covers, video box art and motion picture
advertising.
Brom: A
capable freelance commercial illustrator with a bizarre, gothic and
fantastic themed art. His accomplishments include hundreds of paintings for
every facet of the genre, from novels (Micheal Moorcock, Terry Brooks,
R.A.Salvatore, E.R. Burroughs), Role-playing (TSR, White Wolf, FASA, WOTC),
comics (DC, Chaos, Dark Horse), Games (Doom2, Diablo2, Heretic, Sega,
Activision), and film (Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Galaxy Quest, Bless the
Child, Ghosts of Mars, Scooby Doo). Brom has been active in the 3d world as
well with a line of Brom fetish toys from Fewture and a series of bronzes
from the Franklin Mint. His powerful and haunting visions can be found in
his two art books "Darkwerks" and "Offerings", both available from Paper
Tiger.
Bryan
Leister: A gifted illustrator and graphic designer. Bryan's
work has been commissioned for the covers of many national and international
magazines, including Time, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Der Spiegel and the Atlantic
Monthly. He has won over 100 awards from competitions such as Communication Arts
Illustration Annual, the Art Directors Club of Washington DC, the Illustrators
Club of Washington DC, AIGA, PRINT and a gold and silver medal from the Society
of Illustrators in NYC. His paintings are in the collections of The Museum
of American Art, The District of Columbia Historical society, Kohler, Celestial
Seasonings, James River Paper Company, Blue Cross Blue Shields and many private
collections.
David A. Hardy:
A pioneer and exceptional astronomical artist whose work has appeared in
numerous books and magazines, as well as on stage and in film. Besides having
illustrated and produced covers for hundreds of books for many famous authors of
both fact and fiction (including Patrick Moore, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan,
Werner von Braun, Isaac Asimov and even Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones),
David today writes and illustrates his own books.
Frank Frazetta:
One of the world's most influential Fantasy and Science Fiction artists,
showing astonishing abilities with oil painting, ink illustration,
watercolors, and pencil. He is one of the most emulated illustrators of
these genres in the world today, having worked for EC Comics, National
Comics (including the superhero feature "Shining Knight"), Avon and several
other comic book companies, such as Buck Rogers covers for Famous Funnies,
Li'l Abner comic strip, assisting Dan Barry on the Flash Gordon daily strip,
and also producing his own strip, Johnny Comet. Frazetta also created
illustrations for magazines (Mad Magazine, Playboy), book covers (Edgar Rice
Burrough's Tarzan, Carson of Venus and Pellucidar series, Robert E. Howard
and L. Sprague de Camp's Conan the Adventurer), movie posters (Conan the
Barbarian, Fire and Ice, Fearless Vampire Killers, etc.) and animation
productions.
James C. Christensen: An outstanding American artist, his
main body of work, mostly paintings, is heavily influenced by fantasy themes.
Even his small body of religious work shows heavy fantasy influence. Christensen
says his inspirations are myths, fables, fantasies, and tales of imagination.
His art has appeared in the American Illustration Annual and Japan's Outstanding
American Illustrators. He also won all the professional art honors the World
Science Fiction Convention offers, and multiple Chesley Awards from the
Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Most of Christensen's
paintings have a philosophical message. He is loath to describe them, however,
preferring to allow the viewer to discern their own message.
Joe Tucciarone:
An exceptionally talented artist and longtime member of the International
Association for the Astronomical Arts. Joe's paintings have been published in
magazines such as Time, Discover, and Science. His 'Extinction' image appeared
in the DreamWorks movie 'Deep Impact'. His dinosaur illustrations and CG
animation sequences have appeared in many TV documentaries on the History
Channel, the Discovery Channel and the Turner Broadcasting System. His
astronomical artwork has been commissioned several times by National Geographic
magazine, and his space art has often appeared in Sky and Telescope, Astronomy
and The Planetary Report magazines.
John Jude Palencar:
Gifted American illustrator, with a fantasy/science fiction themed direction.
Over 100 book covers have been adorned by his art, including Eragon by
Christopher Paolini, the 2003 New York Times Bestseller. He graduated from the
Columbus College of Design in 1980 and has served as the namesake for Palancar
Valley, a fictional place in Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy.
John Rush:
An incredibly capable classical illustrator serving the commercial market
executing mythical, historical and traditional themes. John's work has appeared
in several major graphic arts publications, including the Society of
Illustrators Annuals, American Illustration Annuals, Communications Arts, Print,
and Graphics magazines. His illustrations, paintings and prints reflect John's
strong interest in classical, historical and mythological stories told in
pictures.
Joseph J.
Calkins: A freelance fantasy artist, his work can be
found in Collectible Card Games, Role Playing Games, book and magazine
covers and art instruction books. While Joe loves to sketch fantasy
characters and creatures, his real work is an on-going study of light, color
and composition. He cites his greatest influences as Frank Frazetta, Boris
Vallejo and Brom.
Julie Bell:
One of the world's top contemporary illustrators, Julie's credits include
advertising illustrations for the elite of the corporate world (Nike, Coca-Cola
and The Ford Motor Company), book covers for major publishing houses in NYC and
album covers for artists such as Meat Loaf. She was also the first woman ever to paint Conan for
Marvel Comics.
K. Wendy Popp: Talented artist whose pastels and drawings
have been used to illustrate publications internationally for over two decades.
Her exceptionally handsome illustrations lend a realistic quality to any text
and stories, and her artwork is held in private collections and galleries
throughout the United States.
Neal Adams: A skilled commercial artist, a cartoonist, and a comic book
artist. Neal's credits include fantasy book covers, Marvel Comics illustrations
(including X-Men), DC Comics illustrations (including Superman, Batman and the award winning
Green Lantern - Green Arrow series), and Tarzan book covers. His company,
Continuity
Studios, has developed various properties, of it's own and others, including
Bucky O'Hare, Skeleton Warriors, CyberRad, Ms. Mystic, Nighthawk, etc. for TV
and comics.
Pauline Ellison: A freelance British illustrator and
artist, with a long standing botanical interest in plants and gardens but
recently has chosen to focus particularly on the effects of light and form
rather than the individual structure of plants, specially in a stronger,
southern light. She also has designed many unusual items from two inch wide
tin boxes to 100 foot hoardings (billboards), and many book covers and
illustrations, including the
Bantam books 1975 paperback editions of the Earthsea trilogy, by Ursula K.
Le Guin.
Rick Sardinha:
An extremely talented artist who’s work can be found in various card games
(including those by Wizards of the Coast), scientific illustrations
(Scientific American, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel), a large number of
game companies (White Wolf Games, Vivendi Universal Games, Fantasy Flight
Games, etc.), magazines (Dragon Magazine, Dungeon Magazine, Entrepreneur
Magazine, Marion Zimmer Bradley Magazine), books (Penguin Books, Macmillan
Publishing, Twisted Publishing), film (New Line Cinema), and much more.
Stephen R. Wagner: A very capable artist and illustrator
specializing in advertising, animation, fine art and limited editions. Stephen's
most recent clients include The National Geographic Society, Science Magazine,
Time Life Books, The Smithsonian Institute and The Washington Post. Amongst his
many honors are the 1995 Artist's Magazine award and Best of Show two years in
the row (2002/2003) at The Illustrator's Club.
Wayne Anderson:
An endowed artist and illustrator specializing in the Fantasy and Science
Fiction fields. Wayne's varied work has included greetings cards, posters, book jackets,
magazine articles, record covers, CD covers and advertising work (British
Airways, Icelandic Airways, AGFA, Budweiser, Hirondelle, Roche Products Ltd,
British Gas, National Heritage Memorial Fund, Pearl Assurance). He is also
involved with writing and illustrating books.
