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Illustrators and Designers
See also: Comics Artists

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AGENTS

• Rita Marie Represents
Represents, among others, Mort Drucker, Roger Chandler and many others.

RESOURCES

• Conceptart.org is a great general site for any artist: if you're seeking inspiration or advice, check it out.

• The Art Instruction books of Andrew Loomis
Link: www.saveloomis.org

Downloadable versions of books by this highly-recommended artist, regarded as the premier commercial illustrator of the '40s and '50s. . He was responsible for numerous print ads, billboards, and calendars; his romantic and imaginative style inspired artists throughout America.
You can also find a downloadabe version of his works Creative Illustration here (www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=13); Drawing the Head and Hands (www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=14); and Successful Drawing (www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=15)

• Human Photo References for 3D Artists and Game Developers
Link: www.3d.sk

INDIVIDUAL ILLUSTRATORS

• Banksy
Link: www.banksy.co.uk

Stunning grafitti art and other imagery

• Julian Beever's Pavement Drawings
These are amazing!  They are pavement drawings that work as three dimensional images, but only from one direction

• John James Audubon
Link: www.mcq.org/audubon/menu.html

Let your imagination soar as the birds that ruled America's skies more than a century ago live again in resplendent color. Here's a chance to glimpse into the artistic mind of legendary naturalist John James Audubon, as well as spy the bountiful menagerie he adeptly painted on an 11-year quest to capture American birds with life-size accuracy. Much more detailed than the era's photographic capabilities allowed, these 435 color plates depict species such as the Common Grackle, Hooded Warbler, and Bald Eagle in all their majesty. The original collection is enhanced by a whimsical Flash exhibit, which introduces you to both graceful and hardy creatures amid their natural habitats. While some of these beauties are no longer with us, their spirit and imprint on Audubon have been forever captured for future generations to admire.

• Mark Beer
Official: http://reebkram.daportfolio.com

Concept designer and illustrator Mark's work features in The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration and the role-playing book Corporation: The Roleplaying Book". His biggest dream is to work as a comic book cover artist for Marvel or DC, or to carry on working as a conceptual artist within the film industry.

• Greg Bridges
Official: www.gregbridges.com
SF illusrator Greg Bridges’ work is now represented in private and public collections in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. He is well known for his distinctive style with exquisite detail. He has carved a niche out of the art world with his surrealistic futuristic and fantasy art. Forging an International and National Award Winning self supporting career as an Artist and Designer creating SF and Fantasy art, spanning more than 25 years, with art published in six countries.

• Joanne Brooker
Offiical: www.purplespiderstudio.com.au

Joanne Brooker is a professional artist specialising in caricature, Joanne has been a full time editorial illustrator for Queensland Newspaper for nine years. Previously she worked in advertising and in T-shirt art design.

• James Burley
Official site: www.jamesburleyillustrator.com

Bristlsh-based cartoonist and illustrator sent me some very funny Star Wars cartoons (not featured on his site, hard luck!). He divides his time between writing "hugely funny" comedy for radio, TV, and film. He has worked sporadically for local web designers and the mighty Aardman Animations. He has also been responsible for many sought after T-shirt designs. He's also involved in the wonderful Spewmy tales web site (www.spewmytales.com) which is a great place for kids. They hope to include a downloadable cut out theatre at some point. It's fab!

• Jim Burns
Images: http://gallery.arcobaleno.tv/index2.php?9

• Davey Carr
Official: www.daveycarr.com
3-D artist whose online portfolio includes some elegant Judge Dredd design work. His credits include games imagery and designs for nightclubs.

• Steve Carroll
Official: www.asmi94.dsl.pipex.com/Steve/home.htm
Steve has worked as a professional illustrator for the last 10 years and his client list include a diverse range of magazines such as Mojo, the Radio Times, Mayfair and The Ecologist.

• Chris Dien
Official: www.chrisdien.com

The official website of Chris Dien, illustrator of painted comic and fantasy art.

• Robert Donald
Official: www.robertdonald.co.uk

Although initially aiming for jobs assisting in magazine and pamphlet design, graphic designer Rob's main interest lies in poster design for film, as well as DVD and video covers. He's keeping his options open however, and is also considering moving into film and television concept design, as well as title graphics.

• Paul Drummond
Official: www.pauldrummond.co.uk

As well as being a superb artists, Paul's a freelance web developer specialising in standards-based work, providing websites which are attractive, easy to use and maintain. His commercial illustration has appeared on book covers, magazines, albums, concept design, game development and more.

• Bob Eggleton
Official: www.bobeggleton.com
Art-A-Day Blog: bobsartdujour.blogspot.com
Bob's Art for Sale Blog: bobsartforsale.blogspot.com

Award-winning fantasy/SF artist who works on both publishing projects and film concept work (such as Jimmy Neutron and most recently, The Ant Bully) but has a passion for landscape work, small paintings and exploring the properties of paint. His blogs mostly showcase his "painting-for-the-day" as kind of a personal voyage.

• Mark Evans
Official: www.cloudmover.net

Mark, whose work includes covers for Star Fleet games, fantasy world imagery, concept designs and character sketches sent me a few links to his site and I was highly impressed by the skill, energy and delivery of his work. Well worth a visit.
Since graduating from Pratt Institute in 1991 on a Full Scholarship, Mark has worked on a variety of assignments including illustrations and storyboards for Walt Disney Consumer Products, Wizards of The Coast, Topps, Marvel Comics, Scholastic, Dell Magazines, Nerf, AT&T and Coca Cola. Some of the other properties and companies he has done illustrations for include Games Workshop's "Warhammer 40,000", Upper Deck’s World of Warcraft CCG, Star Trek, Dell Magazines' Isaac Asimov, Analog and Ellery Queen monthly publications, the official New Line Cinema/Peter Jackson/ Decipher Inc. Lord of the Rings game RPG book Fell Beasts and Wondrous Magic, Wizards of the Coast and the trading card game and RPG A Game of Thrones based on the acclaimed A Song of Fire and Ice novels by George R. R. Martin.

• Alan Fore
Official: www.alanfore.com

Book covers, design work and web site design -- Alan's got a lot of strings to his bow. Among his acheivements, he designed the website for Michonne Bourriague, the actress who played bounty hunter Aurra Sing in Star Wars Episode 1; and Shannon McCrandle, the professional model and make-up artist hired by Decipher, Inc. in 1999 to portray the character Mara Jade for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game.

• Chris Foss
Official: www.chrisfossart.com
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Chris Foss remains one of the most influential British SF artists, whose work encompasses not only SF but illustrations for The Joy of Sex early in his career. Books featuring Foss illustrations include the 1970s British paperback covers for Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series.

In 1975, director Alejandro Jodorowsky hired him to design a film version of the science-fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert: although the film was not made, Jodorowsky enthused about Foss' work in a foreword for 21st Century Foss, (ISBN 90-6332-571-1), published by Dragon's Dream.

"Chris Foss knows that today's technical reality is tomorrow's falsehood," he wrote. "Chris also knows that today's pure art is tomorrow's reality. Man will conquer space mounted on Foss' spaceships, never in NASA's concentration camps of the spirit... He brought the colours of the apocalypse to the sad machines of a future without imagination." (View Chris' designs for the unmade film here)

In 1977, Foss also worked on studies for the movie Alien (although these were not used - Chris explains more in this interview for Den of Geek) and also did some designs of the planet Krypton for the movie Superman.

His credits also covers and for 2000AD; and, more recently, he's been working on the visualisation of his stunning spacecraft designs for a German production company.

His art continues to inspire new artists to this day, but, while there are plans afoot for a new colection of his work, the most recent collection was back in 1990, Diary of a Spaceperson, published by Paper Tiger, which collects much of his work from the 1980s, such as his covers for books like Dayworld Rebel by Phillip Jose Farmer, Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: An A-Z of Science Fiction Books by David Pringle and Earth Is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov. (For notes on work featured, visit Bear Alley).

Visit his official site more about Chris, his current projects or to purchase prints of his work. There's also a Chris Foss Facebook group and a Chris Foss Twitter Feed.

More Links

• Read an interview with Chris from ImagineFX

• Chris Foss on Sci-Fi-O-Rama

• Bear Alley: E.E. Doc Smith Lensman Cover Gallery

Fred Gambino
Official: www.fredgambino.co.uk
Greg has been drawing for as long as I can remember, originally inspired by early British Sci fi shows like Doctor Who and the Gerry Anderson puppet series. It seemed that a career in Illustration, in particular a career in SF or fantasy illustration, was inevitable. His credits include design work on filsm such as Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius and The Ant Bully.

• Giles
Tribute Page: giles.clickhere2.net
Cartoonist for the Daily Express, his visual commentary on British life certainly delighted my Dad and thousands of others for over 50 years.

• David Griffiths
Official: www.dsgportfolio.co.uk

Lead artist on Star Wars: The Clone Wars

• European Artists Gallery
Link: http://users.pandora.be/marcbazooka/euro_artists.htm

Comics artists and illustrators featured including Alfonso Azpiri, Chris Achilleos and many others

• Frank Kelly Freas
Link: www.kellyfreas.com

11-time Hugo Award-winning illustrator of book and magazine cover and interior art for science fiction, fantasy, the NASA space program, record albums, advertising, and MAD Magazine. Freas died on 2 January 2004: his site includes an extensive biography, illustrations and more.
• Buy Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It - one of the more popular collections of his work - from Amazon.com
• Buy Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It - one of the more popular collections of his work - from Amazon.co.uk

• Edward Gorey
Link: The Works of Edward Gorey - www.goreyography.com

My good friend Lou Anders sent me an Artpost Chrstmas card featuring an image by the late Edward Gorey in 2004: I have to confess that if I had ever seen his work before, this was the first time his terrific ink work registered in my tiny brain.
Described as "American Gothic" by one admirer, Gorey's volumes of drawings amuse, delight and provoke a small coterie of collectors. Thomas McDade's tribute to Gorey sums it up: "His distinctive and characteristic style of drawing is joined with a mordant wit and a taste for the outre."
Goreyography is a graphical galleria of gratuitous Gorey, a continuous choreography of calamitous characters. Both bibliographical and biographical, Goreyography delivers a comprehensive collection of information about the works of author-artist Edward Gorey [1925-2000]. In addition to Gorey's enigmatic genius, Goreyography also exhibits works of lesser known individuals, their paintings, photographs and other forms of artistic expression.

Stephen Hickman
Official: www.stephenhickman.com

Stephen Hickman has been illustrating science fiction and fantasy for three decades. His work is inspired by the masters of fantasy and science fiction writing — J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Clark Ashton Smith.

William Hogarth
Witty, satirical, subversive and talented, William Hogarth remains one of the most fascinating and innovative artists of the 18th century, and his work is considered an inspiration for comics artists and illustrators even today.
• William Hogarth - National Gallery collection
• The Guardian has a ‘slideshow’ talk online with Steve Bell discussing his impressions of the Hogarth show - which included many of the artit's satirical, surrealistic engravings alongside delicately painted portraits - at Tate Britain in early 2007

• Colin Howard
Link: www.colinhowardartwork.com

Doctor Who, album covers... Colin's done the lot and he's a great bloke too!

Tom Kelly
Link: www.tommm9.daportfolio.com
Blog: http://tommm9.blogspot.com/

Illustrator whose work includes the Sword of the Samurai webcomic on WebComicsNation.

Duncan Long
Official: http://duncanlong.com

Freelance illustrator for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, American Media, Fort Ross, Asimov's Science Fiction, and many other publishers.

Bill McConkey
Official: www.billmcconkey.co.uk

Bill's work should be familiar to Guardian and Men's Health readers, but his client list is diverse, including Egmont, Oxford Univeristy Press and London Magazine. His work has appeared in several London exhibitions.

• Lamponi Leopardi Maurizio
Link: www.artmajeur.com/lampons

Italian creator Lamponi Maurizio sent me some stunning pieces of 3D art inspired by Dan Dare, but he's perhaps better known for his distinctive lamp designs and more. The styling is quite gorgeous and will surely appeal to anyone looking for something with a 50s retro look to their home.

• Stephan Martinere
Official: www.martiniere.com

Well known for his SF book cover work, Stephan Martiniere's art is in part inspired by films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Blade Runner and The Dark Crystal. He worked on the Inspector Gadget animated series as a character and background designer in Japan (his early animation credits also include Heathcliff and The Real Ghostbusters), before settling in California where he became a television director for a number of animated shows including Dennis The Menace, Where's Waldo and the animated musical adaptation Madeline.
Leaving animation he moved to theme park design, working on Star Trek: The Experience and The Race For Atlantis in Las Vegas. These projects led Stephan to Hollywood, where he had the exciting opportunities to design for the feature films such as I, Robot and Star Wars Episodes II and III.
More recently he has worked on game design (including Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Myst 5 and as an award-winning book cover illustrator.
• Buy Quantum Designs: The Art of Stephan Martinere from Amazon.com
• Buy Quantum Designs: The Art of Stephan Martinere from Amazon.co.uk

• Farnk R. Paul Gallery
Link: www.frankwu.com/paul1.html

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction considers Frank R. Paul "the best candidate for 'Father of Modern SF illustration', at least in the form it took in the pulp magazines."
Paul studied in Vienna, Paris and New York, trained as an architect, and then was discovered by [editor] Hugo Gernsback in 1914 while working for a rural newspaper. Their names have been virtually inseparable ever since the days of Electrical Experimenter. ...
For Amazing Stories#1, published in April 1926 Paul not only painted the cover illustration but did all the interior black-and-white artwork as well, and continued to do all the covers and many of the interiors until Gernsback lost control of the magazine in 1929.
When Gernsback started publishing again later that year, FRP was once more his primary illustrator, on Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories and then Wonder Stories; his association with Gernsback lasted until the short-lived Science Fiction Plus in 1953 and beyond, if you consider Gernsback's Forecast magazines, painting more than 190 covers for Gernsback in all. Other crdits include work for various non-Gernsback SF magazines, including all 12 for Charles D. Hornig's Science Fiction, and also a series of full colour back-cover paintings for the Ziff-Davis Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures (1939-1946). He also did all the covers and some comix for Superworld Comics, a Gernsback experiment of 1939.

David Penfound
Official: www.davidpenfound.com
David, who lives in the UK, has had commissions for his art from all over the world and has receiving numerous commissions from renowned companies, including one to produce the image for the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world. As well as his traditional artwork David is highly skilled in 3dsMax and produces high-end visual effects for film and tv, architectural and product design visuals and animation.

• John Picacio
Official: www.johnpicacio.com

Texas-based award-winning artist who has done book covers for the work for Haraln Ellison, Robert Silverberg and many others. Picacio takes an unbelievably wide range of subject matter and turns out unique, beautiful and, some argue iconic imagery, all the while making it look effortless.
• Buy Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio from Amazon.com
• Buy Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio from Amazon.co.uk

• Dermot Power
Official Site: www.dermotpower.com
Blog: http://dmoxia.blogspot.com/

Brilliant Concept Artist/Production Illustrator who I first encounterd at Marvel UK when he painted Digitek, and has gone on to do a huge amount of stunning work such as visuals for the V for Vendetta film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Returns and much more.

James Reekie
Official: www.jamesreekie.co.uk

UK-based illustrator whose clients have included Salt Cellar Publishing, and worked on the redesign of the London Aquarium with Merlin Studios, the design team of the Tussauds theme park group.

• Graeme Neil Reid
Official: www.gnreid.co.uk

Illustrator and comics artist. Check out his great Doctor Who illustrations -- very moody!

• David Robinson
Official: www.bambam131.com
If you're into virtual spaceships, check this out! Comics artist John Ridgway recommended this site to me.

• James Ryman
Link: www.jamesryman.com

Freelance artist based in the Midlands, UK. Full colour illustrations and concept work for fantasy, sci-fi and horror books, magazines (the sample is the art for a cover of Dragon) and games.

• Dmitry Savinoff
Official: www.savinoff.com
Savinoff Design Studios is a young company founded by Dmitry Savinoff in September of 2001. Its goal is to offer affordable and highest quality computer graphics-related services to clients.

• Andrew Skilleter
Official: www.andrewskilleter.com

Brilliant illustrator whose work includes Doctor Who, the Chronicles of Narnia and more.

• Rick Sternbach
Link: www.ricksternbach.com

Rick Sternbach has been a space and science fiction artist since the early 1970s, whose clients include NASA, Sky and Telescope, Random House, the Smithsonian, Analog and Time-Life Books. He is a founding member and Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), which was formed in 1981. He worked on the Star Trek series from The Next Generation onwards -- one of the first employees hired to update the Trek universe.
This talented designer created new spacecraft, tricorders, phasers, and hundreds of other props and set pieces. (Read his profile on startrek.com)

• Gary Tonge
Official: www.visionafar.com
British illustrator who specializes in space and science fiction art.

• Ronnie Tucker
Official web site: ronnietucker.co.uk

Oil landscape paintings, and pastel portraits of cats, dogs, horses and other wildlife.

• Derek Walborn
Official: www.derekwalborn.com

New York artist Derek focuses on creating characters, creatures and more recently, environments for them to live in.

• Dan Waring
Official: www.danwaring.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/dan_waring

Perhaps better known as an illustrator, the galleries on British artist Dan Waring's site feature a wide range of his work, from children's book illustrations to editorial images. He works in a range of media including watercolour, coloured pencil, acrylic, pen and pencil. Dan has also undertaken a number of portrait commissions.

• Frank Wu
Official: www.frankwu.com

Three-Time Hugo Award Winner-Best Fan Artist & 13th Best Science Fiction Artist in the World.

• Feng Zhu
Concept Artist