2019 Chesley Awards Winners

Best Cover Illustration: Hardcover

• WINNER: Jon Foster for I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, Connie Willis (Subterranean)

• Tommy Arnold for Red Rising, Pierce Brown (Subterranean)
• Jensine Eckwall for Soulless: Illustrated Edition, Gail Carriger (Orbit)
• Michael Komarck for Low Chicago, George R.R. Martin, ed. (Tor)
• Maurizio Manzieri for The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• John Jude Palencar for The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia, Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
• Charles Vess for The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
• Rebecca Yanovskaya for Sisters of the Winter Wood, Rena Rossner (Redhook)

Best Cover Illustration: Paperback or Ebook

• WINNER: Amanda Makepeace for Diabolical Plots: Year Three, David Steffen, ed. (Diabolical Plots)

• Melissa Gay for The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 4, David Afsharirad, ed. (Baen)
• Donato Giancola for Warrior, Terry Brooks (Grim Oaks)
• Nataša Ilinčić for The Raven’s Ballad, Emma Hamm (self-published)
• John Picacio for Constance Verity Saves the World, A. Lee Martinez (Saga)
• Nicholas Sciacca for The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)

Best Magazine Illustration

• WINNER: Arthur Haas for Clarkesworld 5/18

• Cindy Fan for Strange Horizons 11/18
• Donato Giancola for Analog 3-4/18
• Sean Andrew Murray for Clarkesworld 6/18
• Greg Ruth for Stranger Things 2 variant cover, (Dark Horse)

Best Interior Illustration

• WINNER: Vanessa Lemen for The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Easton)

• Audrey Benjaminsen for “Triquetra”, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com 9/18)
• Jon Foster for Legion: Lies of the Beholder, Brandon Sanderson (Subterranean)
• John Picacio for “Evernight”, Victor Milán (Tor.com 2/18)
• Charles Vess for The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
• Jeremy Wilson for Yellow, Bill Perry (self-published)

Best Color Work: Unpublished

• WINNER: Melissa Gay, “Harvest” (oil)

• Julie Bell, “Pegasus Befriends the Muses” (oil on wood)
• Te Hu, “8 buddha: jingnangshou” (digital)
• Ingrid Kallick,”The Gardener Of Souls” (acrylic on masonite)
• Mark Poole, “Falling” (acrylic)
• Eric Wilkerson, “The Oba” (oil on panel)

Best Monochrome Work: Unpublished

• WINNER: Chris Wade, “Failure To Launch: Grounded” (graphite pencil)

• Michael Blank, “The Midnight Encounter” (Photoshop)
• Emily Hare, “Unburnt” (watercolor)
• Yoann Lossel, “Diane” (mixed)
• Matthew Stewart, “The Scroll of Isildur” (watercolor pencil)
• Babs Webb, “Vacant Memory” (powdered graphite on bristol)

Best Three-Dimensional Art

• WINNER: Patrick Masson, “Reflection” (Fimo and Magic Sculpt)

• Daria Aksenova, “Metamorphosis” (paper)
• Dan Chudzinski, “Grim” (mixed)
• Devon Dorrity, “Lilith and the Serpent” (bronze)
• Forest Rogers, “Green Faun” (mixed)
• Vincent Villafranca, “Bane of Thieves” (bronze)

Best Gaming-Related Illustration

• WINNER: Mitchell Malloy, “Frantic Search” (Wizards of the Coast)

• Kari Christensen, “Feasting Hunger” (Betheseda)
• Jesper Ejsing, “Bitterblossum” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Lars Grant-West, “Glowspore” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Howard Lyon, “Octopus Umbra” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Ryan Pancoast, “Knight of Autumn” (Wizards of the Coast)

Best Product Illustration

• WINNER: Charles Urbach, “The Pirate Queen”, Gary Con promotional art

• Devon Dorrity, “Dragonsteel”, bronze & LED backlighting logo for Brandon Sanderson’s production company
• Rachel Quinlan, “Portal”, promotional image for the Detroit Festival of Books
• John Jude Palencar for A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar, George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
• John Picacio, “La Musica” (Lone Boy)
• Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell’s Fantasy Calendar (Workman)

Best Art Director

• WINNER: Neil Clarke

• Irene Gallo
• Dawn Murin
• Lauren Panepinto
• Cynthia Sheppard

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award

• WINNER: Diane Dillon

• Jeff Easley
• Greg Manchess
• Iain McCaig
• Ruth Sanderson
• Allen Williams
• Charles Vess

The awards are given by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA) and were announced at NASFiC 2019, held July 4-7, 2019 in Layton UT.