2020 Chesley Awards Winners

Best Cover Illustration: Hardcover

• WINNER: Eric Wilkerson for Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)

• 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)

Best Cover Illustration: Paperback or Ebook

• WINNER: Amanda Makepeace for The Long List Anthology Volume 5, David Steffen, ed. (Diabolical Plots)

• David Curtis for Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com Publishing)
• Jamie Jones for The Warrior Moon, K Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
• 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

• WINNER: Evan Cagle for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen Ones #1, Mairghread Scott, Ornella Savarese, Celia Lowenthal & Alexa Sharpe (BOOM!)

• Yoshitaka Amano for Blood Borne 6/19
• 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

• WINNER: John Picacio for Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)

• 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)
• 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Best Color Work: Unpublished

• WINNER: Debbie Hughes for “The Raven, the Wolf and the Maiden” (oil on panel)

• Bruce Brenneise for “If Stones Could Cry” (digital)
• Martina Fačková for “Spellbinding Terror” (digital)
• Te Hu, for “Who am I? — La Marcarena” (digital)
• Elizabeth Leggett for “The Devil/The City” (digital)
• David Seidman for “The Divine Migration” (digital)
• Lauren Raye Snow for “Anima Sola I” (digital)

Best Monochrome Work: Unpublished

• WINNER: Tehani Farr for “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)

• Ken Cunnningham for “Both Their Coats Were Heavy” (graphite powder on dura-lar)
• Jeff Echevarria for “Doctor, My Eyes” (charcoal, graphite, and gouache)
• Melissa Sue Stanley for “The Tootsie Monster” (graphite)
• Allen Williams for “The Hidden Light” (powdered graphite pencil, oil on board)

Best Three-Dimensional Art

• WINNER: Forest Rogers for “Selene” (mixed media)

• Daria Aksenova for “The Crane Wife” (pen, ink, and goldleaf)
• Sara Felix for “The Cosmic Egg” (mixed media)
• Kristine Poole for “The Spinner of Dreams” (bronze)
• Vincent Villafranca for “Unbridled and Unfettered” (bronze)

Best Gaming-Related Illustration

• WINNER: Charles Urbach for “King By His Own Hand” (GameHole Con)

• Wylie Beckert for “Rosethorn Acolyte” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Iris Compiet for “Brazen Borrower” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Melissa Gay for “Summer Dandelion” (Changeling Artist Collective)
• Winona Nelson for “Lonesome Unicorn” (Wizards of the Coast)
• Omar Rayyan for “Flaxen Intruder” (Wizards of the Coast)

Best Product Illustration

• WINNER: Rachel Quinlan for Olde Fae tuck box (Changeling Artist Collective)

• Oliver Barrett for “Full Metal Jacket” (Mondo Poster)
• Tehani Farr for “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 for “La Cantarita” (Lone Boy)

Best Art Director

• WINNER: Lauren Panepinto

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

Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award

• WINNER: Syd Mead

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

For more information, see the ASFA website.

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