2019 online sff - art
Feb. 29th, 2020 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraArt! Someday we will reform the art categories but until then we suffer!
Some years I make note of covers and illustrations I liked but this year the only note I had was "look into Sam Hogg for artist" but did not note where I saw his name. So, I don't know what work of his I particularly wanted to acknowledge, or even whether he had a qualifying pro work, so I'm thinking maybe I'll nominate him as a Fan Artist?? Here's Sam Hogg's webpage anyways.
Rocketstackrank does a lightbox of covers of the major magazines and some book covers - you can go through it here if you're willing to use an RSR resource. I still like Julie Dillon and Donato Giancola better than basically anybody but I'm trying not to nominate previous winners, and also eliminated Stephan Martinière on that basis.
Leaving me to narrow this list down to five:
Galen Dara (do I even need a link? after four recent ballot appearances?)
Godwin Akpan (who I think does not make my final five but I did really like these two pieces)
Alyssa Winans
Jasu Hu
Rovina Cai (made the long list last year, in 12th place)
Tommy Arnold (notably, did the Gideon the Ninth cover, also just barely missed the ballot last year)
Kuri Huang
I suppose if I was really dedicated to getting new names onto the ballot, I could stop nominating Galen Dara... hm.
Also, the Current Futures anthology had gorgeous art, particularly: Nancy Liang, Jing Jing Tsong, Cornelia Li, Jazmen Richardson, Kaela Graham, Tracy J. Lee, Alyssa Winans (hey!)
Some years I make note of covers and illustrations I liked but this year the only note I had was "look into Sam Hogg for artist" but did not note where I saw his name. So, I don't know what work of his I particularly wanted to acknowledge, or even whether he had a qualifying pro work, so I'm thinking maybe I'll nominate him as a Fan Artist?? Here's Sam Hogg's webpage anyways.
Rocketstackrank does a lightbox of covers of the major magazines and some book covers - you can go through it here if you're willing to use an RSR resource. I still like Julie Dillon and Donato Giancola better than basically anybody but I'm trying not to nominate previous winners, and also eliminated Stephan Martinière on that basis.
Leaving me to narrow this list down to five:
Galen Dara (do I even need a link? after four recent ballot appearances?)
Godwin Akpan (who I think does not make my final five but I did really like these two pieces)
Alyssa Winans
Jasu Hu
Rovina Cai (made the long list last year, in 12th place)
Tommy Arnold (notably, did the Gideon the Ninth cover, also just barely missed the ballot last year)
Kuri Huang
I suppose if I was really dedicated to getting new names onto the ballot, I could stop nominating Galen Dara... hm.
Also, the Current Futures anthology had gorgeous art, particularly: Nancy Liang, Jing Jing Tsong, Cornelia Li, Jazmen Richardson, Kaela Graham, Tracy J. Lee, Alyssa Winans (hey!)
