Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called “part of the pulp magazine history … one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time.” While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.
Ian Miller (born 11 November 1946) is a British fantasy illustrator and writer best known for his quirkily etched gothic style and macabre sensibility, and noted for his book and magazine cover and interior illustrations, including covers for books by H. P. Lovecraft and contributions to David Day’s Tolkien-inspired compendiums, work for Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and various role-playing and wargaming publications, as well as contributions to the Ralph Bakshi films Wizards and Cool World.
Robert Gibson Jones(1889-1969) Working name of American illustrator Robert Gibson Jones. After some art training in Chicago, he worked mostly in advertising for two decades before becoming, in 1942, a regular cover artist for Ziff-Davis publications. In addition to covers for their non-genre titles like Mammoth Adventure, Mammoth Detective, and Mammoth Western, Jones painted 90 covers for Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures; later in the 1950s, he painted covers for Universe Science Fiction, Other Worlds, and Mystic Magazine. He also did some interior art.
Jones’s vivid, stimulating cover illustrations, reminiscent of Earle K Bergey’s in some respects, often had an Arabian Nights feel about them, displaying exotically costumed characters and a fondness for beautiful, dark-haired women; one celebrated cover, for the August 1950 issue of Amazing, featured the face of a woman wearing a bejewelled headband materializing above a mountain range to a group of grounded space travellers. Placing a positive spin on his proclivities, Brian W Aldiss in Science Fiction Art (1975) quotably said that Jones “made champagne of the myth of technological progress: the wish that frontiers beyond the Moon will yield adventure, power and romance.” But one could say with equal justice that his distinctly old-fashioned visions of the future, recalling the imagery of historical romances, lacked any genuine resonance with the futuristic spirit of sf.
Kelly Freas (August 27, 1922 – January 2, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Artists” and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist. He has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, science fiction’s highest honor for an artist. His peers in the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists have honored him ten times with a Chesley Award for outstanding achievement, and he has received a Silver Medal of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators.
A native of Plainville, Connecticut, he is a 1975 graduate of the Paier School of Art.His art has adorned the covers of books by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, C. J. Cherryh, Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, and Raymond E. Feist, among others. Two compilations of his work have been published, Dreamquests: The Art of Don Maitz, and First Maitz. He also created the “Captain” character of the Captain Morgan brand of rum.
Maitz resides in Florida with his wife, fantasy novelist and artist Janny Wurts.
Richard Hescox is an Imaginative Realist painter whose long artistic career, initially as an illustrator, and more recently as a fine artist creating personal paintings and commissions, has evolved towards the goal of rediscovering the forgotten esthetic sensibilities of the late 19th century fantasy painters who are his major influence. His newer works maintain the same imagination and sense of wonder as his illustrations, but without the editorial constraints of his commercial clients.
Frank Kelly Freas (August 27, 1922 – January 2, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Artists” and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Virgil Finlay’s visual Art
Virgil Finlay’s visual Art.
Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called “part of the pulp magazine history … one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time.” While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.
Ian Miller’s visual Art
Ian Miller’s visual Art.
Ian Miller (born 11 November 1946) is a British fantasy illustrator and writer best known for his quirkily etched gothic style and macabre sensibility, and noted for his book and magazine cover and interior illustrations, including covers for books by H. P. Lovecraft and contributions to David Day’s Tolkien-inspired compendiums, work for Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and various role-playing and wargaming publications, as well as contributions to the Ralph Bakshi films Wizards and Cool World.
Harold W. McCauley’s visual Art
Harold W. McCauley’s visual Art.
Harold William McCauley (1913–1977) was an illustrator of pulp magazines in the science fiction field.
Robert Gibson Jones’s visual Art
Robert Gibson Jones’s visual Art.
Robert Gibson Jones(1889-1969) Working name of American illustrator Robert Gibson Jones. After some art training in Chicago, he worked mostly in advertising for two decades before becoming, in 1942, a regular cover artist for Ziff-Davis publications. In addition to covers for their non-genre titles like Mammoth Adventure, Mammoth Detective, and Mammoth Western, Jones painted 90 covers for Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures; later in the 1950s, he painted covers for Universe Science Fiction, Other Worlds, and Mystic Magazine. He also did some interior art.
Jones’s vivid, stimulating cover illustrations, reminiscent of Earle K Bergey’s in some respects, often had an Arabian Nights feel about them, displaying exotically costumed characters and a fondness for beautiful, dark-haired women; one celebrated cover, for the August 1950 issue of Amazing, featured the face of a woman wearing a bejewelled headband materializing above a mountain range to a group of grounded space travellers. Placing a positive spin on his proclivities, Brian W Aldiss in Science Fiction Art (1975) quotably said that Jones “made champagne of the myth of technological progress: the wish that frontiers beyond the Moon will yield adventure, power and romance.” But one could say with equal justice that his distinctly old-fashioned visions of the future, recalling the imagery of historical romances, lacked any genuine resonance with the futuristic spirit of sf.
Kelly Freas’s visual Art
Kelly Freas’s visual Art.
Kelly Freas (August 27, 1922 – January 2, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Artists” and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Don Maitz’s visual Art
Don Maitz’s visual Art.
Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist. He has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, science fiction’s highest honor for an artist. His peers in the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists have honored him ten times with a Chesley Award for outstanding achievement, and he has received a Silver Medal of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators.
A native of Plainville, Connecticut, he is a 1975 graduate of the Paier School of Art.His art has adorned the covers of books by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, C. J. Cherryh, Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, and Raymond E. Feist, among others. Two compilations of his work have been published, Dreamquests: The Art of Don Maitz, and First Maitz. He also created the “Captain” character of the Captain Morgan brand of rum.
Maitz resides in Florida with his wife, fantasy novelist and artist Janny Wurts.
Justin Sweet’s visual Art
Justin Sweet’s visual Art.
Justin Sweet, isIllustration Film Work / Keyframe and Environment , Character Design.
Donato Giancola’s visual Art
Donato Giancola’s visual Art.
Donato Giancola is an American artist specializing in narrative realism with science fiction and fantasy content.
Richard Hescox’s visual Art
Richard Hescox’s visual Art.
Richard Hescox is an Imaginative Realist painter whose long artistic career, initially as an illustrator, and more recently as a fine artist creating personal paintings and commissions, has evolved towards the goal of rediscovering the forgotten esthetic sensibilities of the late 19th century fantasy painters who are his major influence. His newer works maintain the same imagination and sense of wonder as his illustrations, but without the editorial constraints of his commercial clients.
Kelly Freas’s Covers Art
Kelly Freas’s Covers Art.
Frank Kelly Freas (August 27, 1922 – January 2, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the “Dean of Science Fiction Artists” and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.