Cover Artist: Alejandro Colucci
Alejandro Colucci was born in Uruguay in 1966 to Italian immigrant parents and he began his career as an illustrator and graphic designer in 1990. After moving to Spain in 2002 he now works in London, where he lives with his wife and children. Alejandro is an award-winning artist who has illustrated hundreds of fantasy, crime, horror, historic fiction and science fiction publications across the globe commissioned by major publishers mainly throughout Europe and the USA. Best-selling authors as Anne Rice, Robin Hobb, Eoin Colfer, Mario Puzo, H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrzej Sapkowski, William Gibson, Clive Barker and J.G. Ballard to name just a few, showcase Alejandro’s covers in their books. His illustrations, done in a variety of techniques both…
Cover Artist: Karla Ortiz
After attending FantasyCon last weekend and following the British Fantasy Awards 2015, I thought it might be time to resurrect the ‘Cover Artist’ feature on the blog. In the category ‘Best Artist’, Karla Ortiz won the British Fantasy Award. Curious as I am, I checked out her work immediately. I loved it! I recognised the first image from a cover and I can remember thinking what an amazing cover it was when the book first came out. Enjoy some of her work below! It goed without saying that all these images are property of Karla Ortiz. About the Artist Karla is a passionate artist who enjoys working on a diverse and…
Cover Artist: Julie Dillon
Biography (from the website): Hi! My name is Julie Dillon, and I’m a freelance illustrator living and working in Northern California. I received my BFA in Fine Arts from Sacramento State University in 2005, with continued education at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco and Watts Atelier. Awards: 2013 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Professional Artist 2012 World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Artist. 2011 Chesley Award Winner for “The Dala Horse” in Best Interior Illustration Art. Winner of Best Color Work, Best Artist, and Best in Show at ArmadilloCon Art Show. 2010 Chesley Award Winner for “Planetary Alignment” in Best Unpublished Color, and 2010 Chesley Nominee for…
Cover Artist – Marc Simonetti
“Professional artist for 10 years now. I’ve been working on various fields such as cover arts, concept arts for video game companies and long feature films, and matte paintings for TV advertisements.” I stumbled across Marc Simonetti’s art when I was researching Michael J. Sullivan’s forthcoming book “Hollow World”. Marc made the cover art for this book and I was instantly drawn to it. It had such vastness, a true Fantasy feel about it and wonderful detail. I browsed Simonetti’s site after that and fell in love with this art. Another talented Fantasy artist to add to my “favorites” list. Examples: (All these images are property of Marc Simonetti) OFFICIAL…
Darrell K. Sweet – Cover Artist – WoT Month
Biography: Artist Darrell K. Sweet, 77, died December 5, 2011. Sweet’s first illustrations were for Ballantine Books in 1975, and when the Del Rey imprint was formed in 1977, he produced many of their covers. Since then he has created illustrations for most of the major SF publishers, including Berkeley, Ace, and Tor. He is perhaps now best known for his illustrations of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, but he also produced memorable covers for Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, and novels by Jack L. Chalker, Terry Brooks, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., and many others. Sweet was born in 1934 in New…
Jason Chan – Cover Artist
My name is Jason Chan and I like to draw 🙂 I was born and raised in Stockton, California in 1983. After high school I moved out to San Francisco to study 3D animation at the Academy of Art University, but promptly changed my major to illustration and graduated in the Spring of 06. I am now working at Massive Black. As I said, I love to draw. Ever since I was a kid I’ve always been drawing characters for make believe video games, cartoons and comics. I also loved drawing my favorite X-men characters, warcraft heroes, and video game sprites. I drew a million Mega Man and Mario drawings.…
Eve Ventrue – Cover Artist
Creating amazing works of original art at a prolific rate is what I do best. My clients come to me with a variety of artistic needs and I collaborate with them to create exciting finished works of art. Since becoming a professional freelance 2D artist in 2009 I have been hard at it and developed a body of work that I can be proud of. I work mainly in Photoshop with a focus on the medieval & fantasy issue – I also enjoy focusing on character design and illustration. In addition to my design and production skills, I am fluent in German. Facebook | deviantART | Official website | Examples: (All…
John Howe – Cover Artist
John Howe On the living room wall there was a pencil rendering of the Castle of Chillon, near Lake Geneva, done by my grandmother at age 19, before she embraced the more acceptable career of schoolmistress and never did another picture in her life…I can’t remember ever not drawing. My mother would do her best to help with the more ambitious renderings, but around primary school age, her draughtsmanship was no longer up to my expectations. I remember bursting into tears of frustration when we both failed to draw a cow the way I wanted.School itself was a mixed blessing; it seemed we always moved house at just the wrong…
Seven Realms Week – Cover Artists
We all know the covers of the Seven Realms books are always stunning. But who made those beautiful covers? And what about all the different editions?Well, let’s start with the US covers. These are all the work of a highly talented Cover Artist I have already made a blogpost about several months ago. Yes, my dears, I’m talking about Larry Rostant! He’s one of my favourites actually, he makes the most beautiful covers for two of my favourite genres: Historical Fiction and, of course, Fantasy. If you want to read the post about Larry Rostant: click here. As I have all the UK versions of the books, I’d like to…