Chesley Awards 2019
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
NASFiC 2019,
Layton UT :
July 4, 2019
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July 7, 2019
Eligibility Year: 2018
Eligibility Year: 2018
Cover Illustration, Hardcover
- Winner: Jon Foster for I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis (Subterranean)
- Charles Vess for The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
- John Jude Palencar for The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia by Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
- Michael Komarck for Low Chicago by George R. R. Martin, ed. (Tor)
- Tommy Arnold for Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Subterranean)
- Rebecca Yanovskaya for Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner (Redhook)
- Jensine Eckwall for Soulless: Illustrated Edition by Gail Carriger (Orbit)
- Maurizio Manzieri for The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
Cover Illustration, Paperback Or E-book
- Winner: Amanda Makepeace for Diabolical Plots: Year Three by David Steffen, ed. (Diabolical Plots)
- John Picacio for Constance Verity Saves the World by A. Lee Martinez (Saga)
- Nataša Ilincic for The Raven's Ballad by Emma Hamm (self-published)
- Nicholas Sciacca for The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)
- Donato Giancola for Warrior by Terry Brooks (Grim Oak Press)
- Melissa Gay for The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 4 by David Afsharirad, ed. (Baen)
Magazine Illustration
- Winner: Arthur Haas for Clarkesworld May 2018
- Cindy Fan for Strange Horizons Nov 2018
- Donato Giancola for Analog Mar/Apr 2018
- Sean Andrew Murray for Clarkesworld Jun 2018
- Greg Ruth for Stranger Things 2 (Dark Horse) (variant cover)
Interior Illustration
- Winner: Vanessa Lemen for The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Easton)
- Charles Vess for The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
- John Picacio for “Evernight” by Victor Milán (Tor.com Feb 2018)
- Jon Foster for Legion: Lies of the Beholder by Brandon Sanderson (Subterranean)
- Audrey Benjaminsen for “Triquetra” by Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com Sep 2018)
- Jeremy Wilson for Yellow by Bill Perry (self-published)
Color Work, Unpublished
- Winner: “Harvest”, Melissa Gay (oil)
- “8 buddha: jingnangshou”, Te Hu (digital)
- “Falling”, Mark Poole (acrylic)
- “The Gardener of Souls”, Ingrid Kallick (acrylic on masonite)
- “The Oba”, Eric Wilkerson (oil on panel)
- “Pegasus Befriends the Muses”, Julie Bell (oil on wood)
Monochrome Work, Unpublished
- Winner: “Failure to Launch: Grounded”, Chris Wade (graphite pencil)
- “Diane”, Yoann Lossel (mixed)
- “The Midnight Encounter”, Michael Blank (Photoshop)
- “The Scroll of Isildur”, Matthew Stewart (watercolor pencil)
- “Unburnt”, Emily Hare (watercolor)
- “Vacant Memory”, Babs Webb (powdered graphite on bristal)
Three-dimensional
- Winner: “Reflection”, Patrick Masson (Fimo and Magic Sculpt)
- “Bane of Thieves”, Vincent Villafranca (bronze)
- “Green Faun”, Forest Rogers (mixed)
- “Grim”, Dan Chudzinski (mixed)
- “Lilith and the Serpent”, Devon Dorrity (bronze)
- “Metamorphosis”, Daria Aksenova (paper)
Lifetime Artistic Achievement
Art Director
Gaming-related Illustration
- Winner: “Frantic Search”, Mitchell Malloy (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Bitterblossum”, Jesper Ejsing (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Feasting Hunger”, Kari Christensen (Betheseda)
- “Glowspore”, Lars Grant-West (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Knight of Autumn”, Ryan Pancoast (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Octopus Umbra”, Howard Lyon (Wizards of the Coast)
Product Illustration
- Winner: “The Pirate Queen”, Charles Urbach (Gary Con promotional art)
- Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell's Fantasy Calendar, Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell (Workman)
- “Dragonsteel”, Devon Dorrity (bronze & LED backlighting logo for Brandon Sanderson’s production company)
- “La Musica”, John Picacio (Lone Boy)
- “Portal”, Rachel Quinlan (promotional image for the Detroit Festival of Books)
- A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar, John Jude Palencar (Bantam)
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