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psocopteraVicto Ngai is (not for the first time iIrc) this year's "I encountered this art in the wild and was struck by it", in this case for the cover of The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea which I just got the ebook of from the library. (It drives me nuts that ebooks don't usually include the back covers! I want to see the whole wraparound design!) Oh, and Tommy Arnold for the Harrow cover.
File770 did a compilation of pro artists here (that's a big page with a lot of images). I went through it and here's whose work jumped out at me:
Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bonnie Helen Hawkins
Sija Hong
Paul Lewin
Reiko Murakami
Marc Simonetti
Some familiar names in there. Hong, Lewin, and Simonetti were not on Renay's spreadsheet, so I might go with Cai, Dara, and Murakami to maximize chances.
Also Donato Giancola did a gorgeous cover for Spinning Silver that I just want to link to, although I'm not nominating him, he's won plenty.
As far as the always-vexing question of fanartist eligibility, I don't know, I never know, I never will know, but I recently came across the work of Manzi Jackson and JR Eisma on Tumblr (both links go to Instagram) and I liked their stuff so I'm going to put down their names. I have no idea who the actual nominees will be given that presumably nobody's been doing cover art for con brochures since we haven't had cons in a year. I guess there must have been cons last Jan/Feb, so there'll be art from those? (Maybe this unprecedented time is the perfect time to rethink this category? My forever hope??)
File770 did a compilation of pro artists here (that's a big page with a lot of images). I went through it and here's whose work jumped out at me:
Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bonnie Helen Hawkins
Sija Hong
Paul Lewin
Reiko Murakami
Marc Simonetti
Some familiar names in there. Hong, Lewin, and Simonetti were not on Renay's spreadsheet, so I might go with Cai, Dara, and Murakami to maximize chances.
Also Donato Giancola did a gorgeous cover for Spinning Silver that I just want to link to, although I'm not nominating him, he's won plenty.
As far as the always-vexing question of fanartist eligibility, I don't know, I never know, I never will know, but I recently came across the work of Manzi Jackson and JR Eisma on Tumblr (both links go to Instagram) and I liked their stuff so I'm going to put down their names. I have no idea who the actual nominees will be given that presumably nobody's been doing cover art for con brochures since we haven't had cons in a year. I guess there must have been cons last Jan/Feb, so there'll be art from those? (Maybe this unprecedented time is the perfect time to rethink this category? My forever hope??)
