Brian Froud is an English fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer. He is most widely known for his 1978 book Faeries with Alan Lee, and as the conceptual designer of the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). According to Wired, Froud is "one of the most pre-emiminent visualizers of the world of faerie and folktale".
David Cherry is an American artist, author, and illustrator of science fiction and fantasy and has also done substantial work as a marketing artist, concept artist, and 3D modeler in the game production industry. Cherry served as Lecturer and Head of the Art Department as well as Head of the master's degree Program for artists at The Guildhall at SMU, a graduate college dedicated to studies for people who want to work in the game production industry. Cherry was also an attorney, as well as a past president of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (1988–1990). He has been nominated eleven times for Hugo Awards, and 18 times for Chesley Awards.
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.
Barbara Nessim is an American artist, illustrator, and educator.
Rafał Olbinski is a Polish illustrator, painter, and educator, living in the United States. He is considered one of the major representatives of the Polish School of Posters.
John Jude Palencar is an American illustrator and fine artist, who specializes in works of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. In 2010, he was given the Hamilton King Award. His highly detailed work is described as containing a rich language of symbols and archetypes, which are left open to interpretation by the viewer.
Jeff Soto is an American contemporary artist. His distinct color palette, subject matter and technique have been said to bridge the gap between Pop Surrealism and Street Art.
Jael was an American artist/illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy art.
Anita E. Kunz, OC, DFA, RCA is a Canadian-born artist and illustrator. She was the first woman and first Canadian to have a solo exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
David Blatherwick (born 1960 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian artist and educator.
Liu Kuo-sung is a Chinese artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. Liu is widely regarded as one of the earliest and most important advocates and practitioners of modernist Chinese painting. He is also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.
Petar Meseldžija is a fantasy and comic book artist and illustrator.
Martino Yu, a Taiwanese artist, who was born in Taoyuan, North Taiwan. He had studied Chinese calligraphy and painting since the childhood. In Taipei, he majored in Chinese painting for the B.F.A and M.F.A. degree. Also good at singing, the artist obtained the certificates of classic vocal in Spain and Italy, respectively. After completing the PhD. study of design in 2010, he was awarded the Golden Melody Awards in 2011 with his falsetto tutor, Wen-bin Chou. Both of them are the rarely seen falsetto tenors in Taiwan.
Rick Berry is a contemporary American expressionistic figure artist based in the Boston area. Berry creates art for galleries, illustration, and paintings for theatrical performances. Berry's work has appeared in many science fiction, fantasy and comic books, including Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Magic: The Gathering cards, and Stephen King novels. In 1985, Berry created the first digitally painted book cover worldwide for William Gibson's Neuromancer. Berry has also written under the names Sam Rakeland, R.R. Berry, Rich Berry, Richard Berry, and O. Berry.
Wu Tien-chang is a Taiwanese visual artist who makes socio-political commentary work through oil painting and digital photography.
Carl Randall is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan and London.
Hsu Yung Chin is a Taiwanese artist and calligrapher. Originally known for traditional Chinese calligraphy, in the 1990s he began to gain renown for his postmodernist calligraphy and ink paintings.
Mia Araujo is an Argentine-American painter who is best known for her elaborate and detailed works of surrealist and fantasy imagery. Her work has been shown in many internationally recognized galleries, including Roq La Rue Gallery, in Seattle, Corey Helford Gallery, in California, and Dorothy Circus Gallery, in Rome, Italy. Her work has been prominently featured in such high profile arts publications as Hi-Fructose Magazine, Juxtapoz and Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles.
Desmond W. Helmore is a New Zealand artist and illustrator, known both for his fine art and for his scientific work depicting insects, not least illustrating the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. One of the country's most noted and prolific biological illustrators, over 1000 of his illustrations of insects were published in research papers from 1976 to 2006.
Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art is a large full color book series which showcases fantasy, science fiction, and horror-themed art in eight categories as selected by a rotating jury from an annual competition.
