2020 Chesley Awards Finalists

Best Cover Illustration: Hardcover

• Tommy Arnold for Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• Tran Nguyen for The Storm Crow, Kalyn Josephson (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Karla Ortiz for The Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter (Orbit)
• Feifei Ruan for Descendant of the Crane, Joan He (Albert Whitman)
• Michael Whelan for Empire of Grass, Tad Williams (DAW)
• Eric Wilkerson for Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)

Best Cover Illustration: Paperback or Ebook

• David Curtis for Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com Publishing)
• Jamie Jones for The Warrior Moon, K Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
• Amanda Makepeace for The Long List Anthology Volume 5, David Steffen, ed. (Diabolical Plots)
• David Palumbo for Wildcards IX: The Jokertown Shuffle, George R.R. Martin, ed. (Tor)
• Dan Dos Santos for The Cunning Man, D.J. Butler & Aaron Michael Ritchey (Baen)
• Jeremy Wilson for Seven Blades in Black, Sam Sykes (Orbit)

Best Magazine Illustration

• Yoshitaka Amano for Blood Borne 6/19
• Evan Cagle for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen Ones #1, Mairghread Scott, Ornella Savarese, Celia Lowenthal & Alexa Sharpe (BOOM!)
• Matt Dixon for Clarkesworld 5/19
• Tiffany England for “Into the Wild Blue Yonder” (Cricket 10/19)
• Tithi Luadthong for Lightspeed 6/19
• Reiko Murakami for Lightspeed 1/19

Best Interior Illustration

• Francois Baranger for The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft (Design Studio)
• Audrey Benjaminsen for “The Time Invariance of Snow”, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 12/14/19)
• Amanda Makepeace for “Fanfare for Rose” (Amazing Stories Spring ’19)
• John Picacio for Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
• Armando Veve for “Knowledgeable Creatures”, Christopher Rowe (Tor.com 3/6/19)
• Allen Williams for Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun, Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke (Katherine Tegen)

Best Color Work: Unpublished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Best Monochrome Work: Unpublished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 Art

• Daria Aksenova, “The Crane Wife” (pen, ink, and goldleaf)
• 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 Gaming-Related Illustration

• Wylie Beckert, “Rosethorn Acolyte” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Iris Compiet, “Brazen Borrower” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Melissa Gay, “Summer Dandelion” (Changeling Artist Collective)
• Winona Nelson, “Lonesome Unicorn” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Omar Rayyan, “Flaxen Intruder” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Charles Urbach, “King By His Own Hand” (GameHole Con)

Best Product Illustration

• Oliver Barrett, “Full Metal Jacket” (Mondo Poster)
• Tehani Farr, “The Sky Mage” and “The God Eye” poster art (Pawahtun Festival)
• Emily Hare for the Dragons 2020 calendar
• Kez Laczin for cover art for the song “Stronger”, TheFatRat (Monstercat)
• John Picacio, “La Cantarita” (Lone Boy)
• Rachel Quinlan, Olde Fae tuck box (Changeling Artist Collective)

Best Art Director

• Christine Foltzer
• Irene Gallo
• Kate Irwin
• Lauren Panepinto
• Nadine Schäkel
• Cynthia Sheppard

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award

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

The awards are given by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA). Voting (for ASFA members only) opens August 28, 2020, with winners to be announced during a virtual ceremony, likely in October.

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