Finalists For The 2020 Chesley Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2020 Chesley Awards, for works and achievements in the period from January 1 to December 31 2019, have been announced.

The Chesley Awards, named after astronomical artist Chesley Bonestell, were established by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) in 1985 as a means for the Science Fiction and Fantasy art community to recognize individual works and achievements in a given year.

Best Cover: Hardback Book

• Tommy Arnold — Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor / September 2019)
• Tran Nguyen — The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson (Source Books Fire / July 2019)
• Karla Ortiz – Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter (Orbit / July 2019)
• Feifei Ruan — The Descendant of the Crane by Joan He (Albert Whitman / April 2019)
• Michael Whelan — Empire of Grass by Tad Williams (DAW Books / May 2019)
• Eric Wilkerson — Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Rick Riordan Presents / October 2019)

Best Cover: Paperback or Ebook

• David Curtis — Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (Tor/Forge Tor.com / June 2019)
• Jamie Jones — The Warrior Moon by K Arsenault Rivera (Tor / September 2019)
• Amanda Makepeace — The Long List Anthology Volume 5 by David Steffen (Diabolical Books / December 2019)
• David Palumbo — Wildcards IX: The Jokertown Shuffle edited by George RR Martin (Tor / April 2019)
• Dan Dos Santos — The Cunning Man by DJ Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey (Baen / November 2019)
• Jeremy Wilson — Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes (Orbit / April 2019)

Best Magazine Illustration

• Yoshitaka Amano — Blood Borne #12 / June 2019
• Evan Cagle — Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Chosen Ones #1 / August 2019
• Matt Dixon — Clarkesworld #152 / May 2019
• Tiffany England — Into the Wild Blue Yonder, Cricket Magazine / October 2019
• Tithi Luadthong — Lightspeed #109 / June 2019
• Reiko Murakami — Lightspeed #104 / January 2019

Best Interior Illustration

• Francois Baranger — The Call of Cthulhu Design (Studio Press / November 2019)
• Audrey Benjaminsen — Time Variance of Snow by E Lily Yu (Tor.com / December 2019)
• Amanda Makepeace — “Fanfare for Rose” (Amazing Stories, Spring 2019, Vol 76)
• John Picacio — Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books/Macmillan / September 2019)
• Armando Veve —  Knowledgeable Creatures (Tor.com / March 2019)
• Allen Williams — Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke (Katherine Tegen Books / July 2019)

Best Gaming Related Illustration

• Wylie Beckert — Rosethorn Acolyte: Throne of Eldraine Magic Card (WotC / October 2019)
• Iris Compiet — Brazen Borrower: Throne of Eldraine Magic Card (WotC / October 2019)
• Melissa Gay — Summer Dandelion: Olde Fae Card Game (Changeling Artist Collective / June 2019)
• Winona Nelson — Lonesome Unicorn: Throne of Eldraine Magic Card (WotC / October 2019)
• Omar Rayyan — Flaxen Intruder: Throne of Eldraine Magic Card (WotC / October 2019)
• Charles Urbach – King By His Own Hand Official VIG (Very Important Gamer) Attendee Badge and Art Print for GameHole Con Gaming Convention (October 2019)

Best Product Illustration

• Oliver Barrett — Full Metal Jacket (Mondo Poster / June 2019)
• Tehani Farr — The Sky Mage and The God Eye Poster art (Pawahtun Festival / January 2019)
• Emily Hare — Dragons 2020 Calendar (Kickstarter / November 2019)
• Kez Laczin — Cover art for the song Stronger by TheFatRat (Monstercat / June 2019)
• John Picacio — La Cantarita (Loteria Grande Card published by Lone Boy / December 2019)
• Rachel Quinlan — Olde Fae box art, Rachel Quinlan (Changeling Artist Collective)

Best Color Work – Unpublished

• Bruce Brenneise — If Stones Could Cry (Digital)
• Martina Fačková — Spellbinding Terror (Digital)
• Te Hu — Who am I? -La Marcarena (Digital)
• Debbie Hughes — The Raven, The Wolf and the Maiden (Oil on panel)
• Elizabeth Leggett — The Devil / The City (Digital)
• David Seidman — The Divine Migration (Digital)
• Lauren Raye — Snow Anima Sola I (Digital)

Best Monochrome Work- Unpublished

• Ken Cunnningham — Both Their Coats Were Heavy (Graphite powder on dura-lar)
• Jeff Echevarria — Doctor, My Eyes (Charcoal, graphite and gouache)
• Tehani Farr — Gyhan akaii dannan Deli Iatt ”She who sits at the end of the world upon a mountain of bones dreaming” (Mixed Media, watercolor, graphite pencil)
• Melissa Sue — Stanley The Tootsie Monster (Graphite)
• Allen Williams — The Hidden Light (Powdered graphite pencil, oil on board)

Best Three Dimensional

• Daria Aksenova — The Crane Wife (Pen, Ink & Goldleaf on hand cut, suspended, layered)
• Sara Felix — The Cosmic Egg (Mixed Media)
• Kristine Poole — The Spinner of Dreams (Bronze)
• Forest Rogers — Selene (Mixed media)
• Vincent Villafranca — Unbridled and Unfettered (Bronze)

Best Art Director

• Christine Foltzer (Tor.com)
• Irene Gallo (Tor / Tor.com)
• Kate Irwin (Wizards of the Coast)
• Lauren Panepinto (Orbit)
• Nadine Schäkel (Ulisses Spiele)
• Cynthia Sheppard (Wizards of the Coast)

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award

• Yoshitaka Amano
• Stephanie Law
• Gregory Manchess
• Iain McCaig
• Syd Mead
• Wendy Pini
• Allen Williams