Today’s my tenth anniversary. April 26, 2001 was the day that I began life as a fulltime freelance illustrator in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror publishing. That was my last day of what many would call a promising and safe professional career in architecture, and pursued what many would call an extremely…
Great news announced yesterday: I’m a 2011 Hugo Award finalist in the Best Professional Artist category. Huge thanks to all who nominated me. Deeply appreciated! 🙂 Heard a few questions yesterday from people who couldn’t remember if I’d won one of these already, and in one case, believed that I already had. LOL For the…
Wow, it’s been a while since I touched base here (smooths off the blog dust). Good news: I’ll soon be able to start showing all of the art I’ve recently made while not blogging. Been quite a push these last few months, but I’ve got a lot to show for it, so I’m happy. Today,…
Happy New Year: here’s a look back at my 2010 published output. Included are three of the 22(!) interior illustrations published in Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: SWORDS AND ROSES (Ballantine/Del Rey). As noted by Tor.com and Locus Magazine, the awards nomination season is upon us again (Hugos and otherwise). If you wish to reference this list…
Just arrived yesterday in my mailbox — the December issue of ImagineFX Magazine, #64. Inside is a deluxe six-page interview featuring Yours Truly. Above is the opening spread. I’m still trying to figure out how the editorial staff crammed so much art and text onto six pages and made it flow so naturally. There’s a…
Happy day here: just received SPECTRUM 17: THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY FANTASTIC ART. This is one of the year’s big art celebrations — a juried competition that annually selects the best in sf/f art and compiles the selections into one breathtaking collection.The cover illustration this year is by one of my favorite artists, Gregory Manchess,…
(Photos, clockwise from top: My Art Show display at FenCon; Vincent Villafranca’s work-in-progress THE DOGS OF WAR; Rie Sheridan Rose in full Victorian regalia) Took me a few days to post this, but before this week disappears, I wanted to say a few words about this year’s Fencon in Dallas, TX (Addison, TX, to be…
Here’s one of my interior illustrations from Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: SWORDS AND ROSES, forthcoming in December from Del Rey. This original is pencil on illustration board, with a bit of white acrylic for good measure. It debuted at Dragon*Con this past weekend and will be on display at Fencon in Dallas next week, along with…
Here’s my cover illustration for Sheri S. Tepper’s THE WATERS RISING, which recently released in hardcover from HarperCollins/Eos. This cover art has surprised me with the amount of enthusiasm expressed for it by readers and booksellers. Thanks to all for saying so before I even had a chance to post. Much appreciated. 🙂
Dragon*Con 2010 is a wrap. What a show. I’m still assessing it. This show’s definitely on my radar from here on. This was my first Dragon*Con as an exhibitor and guest artist, and I was massively impressed. Huge turnouts at panels, a thriving art show, great energy, great people, terrific marketing, superior guest services from…