Collecting art and artists eligible for the Best Pro Artist and Best Fan Artist Hugo Awards for 2015, to be awarded at MidAmericon II, August 17-21, 2016, in Kansas City. This is an UNOFFICIAL project, not sponsored, endorsed, or associated with MidAmericon II, the World Science Fiction Society, or the Hugo Awards™. It's after March 15, so I've stopped adding artists. If you notice that I've left someone out you think really ought to be in, drop an ask with their name, whether they're pro or fan, and the titles of at least 2 qualifying 2015 works. Don't forget -- nominations close on March 31!
Larry Elmore has been a professional fantasy artist since 1982, but he rarely does new work today. He was nominated by the Rabid Puppies because he did a book cover for Castalia House.
Lars Braad Andersen is a Danish digital artist. He was part of the Rabid Puppy slate: he did the covers for Castalia House's There Will Be War anthologies. The other work on his site appears to be "Fan" by Hugo standards: I see no other professional sales.
Galen Dara won the 2013 Best Fan Artist Hugo. She was on the 2014 Best Pro Artist ballot for her illustrations for Oz Reimagined. Her illustrations this year are mostly for semiprozines Lightspeed and Fireside, and so count as Fan Art.
Galen Dara's work is classified as either Pro or Fan, depending on where it's published. She won the 2013 Best Fan Artist Hugo; then for 2014 she was a Best Pro Artist nominee.
This entry is for her Fan Artist eligible work, especially for Fireside Magazine, a semiprozine.
Galen Dara's work is classified as either Pro or Fan, depending on where it's published. She won the 2013 Best Fan Artist Hugo; then for 2014 she was a Best Pro Artist nominee.
This entry is for her Pro Artist eligible work: for Lightspeed Magazine (prozine) and for book illustrations/covers.
For your Hugo consideration: “The Luminarium” for Best Fanzine
The Luminarium is a web-based international SFF art group. Since 2008, they have produced themed "exhibits" (=issues) several times a year. Neither editors nor contributors are paid, which AFAICT makes them a "fanzine" for Hugo purposes.
The Luminarium’s 2015 exhibits are:
Organics. Sample: “Striders of Vvardenfell” by: kire.
Hugo nominations are due March 31, so I'm closing my 2015 art collection now. I collected 35 Pro Artists and 34 Fan Artists.You can scan the tags here for Pro and here for Fan, or you may prefer to look at the archive. I hope everyone can find at least five worthy artists in each category.
Over the next week, I’ll make another few posts about art publications eligible for Best Related Work or Best Fanzine.
If you notice that I've left someone out, drop me an ask with the artist's name, whether they're Pro or Fan, and the titles of at least 2 eligible 2015 works. I won't add an artist if I have to do the time-consuming task of figuring out which works are eligible.
I have already created @2016hugoart as a placeholder -- I’ll start posting there in around November 2016.
Andrew Davidson does mostly wood engraving and woodcut art, and has illustrated many book covers. In 2015 in particular he drew the cover for Rachel Hartman's Shadow Scale, as well as the cover for the first novel in that series, Seraphina. His big project in 2015 was a whole set of covers for the "adult" editions of the Harry Potter books, which are gorgeous.
Alas, the Potter covers are from 2013. “Shadow Scale” is the only 2015 work of his known to ISFDB.:(