2015 Online SFF Art

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So it turns out I've been wrong all this time about what makes someone a Pro Artist or a Fan Artist - I thought selling work to a semiprozine made you a Pro Artist (in the way that if a writer sells a story to a semipro it's a professional sale), but actually it makes you a Fan Artist, and to know whether an art work was Professional you have to know whether someone who was part of whatever published it earned at least a quarter of their yearly income from SFF publishing. (I have no idea if that has to be a *living* income or if someone non-self-supporting could have a micropress as their only line of work, make a tiny amount of money from it, and commission Pro art?) Basically the whole thing makes no fucking sense, especially since, just to further confuse things, someone can be eligible in both categories, for different works, but you're not supposed to consider the Fan works thinking about them as a Pro or the other way around, but it's still not a work award, it's a person award. (There's more about this here as well as a proposal to fix it. I could also imagine redoing it as, like, Best Cover (which would honor striking design as well as nifty SFF art), Best Non-Cover Sold Work, and Best Personal Work, or something, I don't know.) It's extra frustrating given that Fan Artist is a relatively undernominated category where a nomination can really make a difference, if only it was easier to be sure one was doing it right!

Anyways, here in the existing flawed system, here are some links for places to look at art:

Rocketstackrank collection of Pro Artists
Rocketstackrank collection of Fan Artists
Hugo Recommendation blog tag for Pro Artists
Hugo Recommendation blog tag for Fan Artists
A tumblr of 2015-specific Hugo Eligible Art

Here are some Professional Artists (most of my favorites I chose from having encountered their art "in the wild" and not just on recs blogs)

Craig Shields (I like this one cover but not the rest of his recent stuff)
Cynthia Sheppard (website)
Ellen Barkin (Instagram - on the Pro list but the work I like might not be pro work? These categories are so fucking complicated, I don't even know.)
Goni Montes (some works here)
John Brosio (Lightspeed showcase)
Jonathan Bartlett (website)
Joshua Hutchinson (Apex cover, website)
Julie Dillon (everyone already knows about Julie Dillon but isn't that last cover at the bottom right here the prettiest damn thing?)
Li Shuxing (a cover here)
Liu Junwei Clarkesworld cover.
Tran Nguyen (an illo here)
Victo Ngai (website)
Victor Mosquera (website)
Wylie Beckert (Lightspeed showcase)
Galen Dara - (some pro work here)
Cory Godbey (website)
Sana Takeda (website)
Jian Guo (DeviantArt), another one eligible for both Pro and Fan and aaaaargh

And here are some Fan Artists

Autun Purser (website)
Feliks Grzesiczek (DeviantArt gallery)
Jonathan Apilado (website)
Julie Dillon (Eels! Is she simultaneously a Pro and a Fan? Who can say?)
Rachel Kahn (website)
Sam Burley (a cover here)
Takeshi Oga (a cover here)
Tran Nguyen (another one in both the Fans and Pros?)
Tyler Edlin (a cover here)
Vlada Monakhova, (an illo here, website here)
Karen Hallion (Facebook photos here)
Iguanamouth/Lauren (website); they're the artist of Unusual Dragon Hoards
Mia Araujo (website)