Chesley Awards 2020
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Online :
October 25, 2020
Eligibility Year: 2019
Eligibility Year: 2019
Cover Illustration, Hardcover
- Winner: Eric Wilkerson for Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)
- Feifei Ruan for Descendant of the Crane by Joan He (Albert Whitman)
- Michael Whelan for Empire of Grass by Tad Williams (DAW)
- Tommy Arnold for Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- Karla Ortiz for The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter (Orbit)
- Tran Nguyen for The Storm Crew by Kalyn Josephson (Sourcebooks Fire)
Cover Illustration, Paperback Or E-book
- Winner: Amanda Makepeace for The Long List Anthology Volume 5 (Diabolical Plots)
- Dan Dos Santos for The Cunning Man (Baen)
- Jeremy Wilson for Seven Blades in Black (Orbit)
- David Curtis for Silver in the Wood (Tor.com)
- Jamie Jones for The Warrior Moon (Tor)
- David Palumbo for Wildcards IX: The Jokertown Shuffle (Tor)
Magazine Illustration
- Winner: Evan Cagle for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen Ones #1
- Yoshitaka Amano for Blood Borne Jun 2019
- Matt Dixon for Clarkesworld May 2019
- Tiffany England for Cricket Oct 2019
- Tithi Luadthong for Lightspeed Jun 2019
- Reiko Murakami for Lightspeed Jan 2019
Interior Illustration
- Winner: John Picacio for Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
- Francois Baranger for The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft (Design Studio)
- Amanda Makepeace for “Fanfare for Rose” (Amazing Stories Spr 2019)
- Armando Veve for “Knowledgeable Creatures” by Christopher Rowe (Tor.com 6 Mar 2019)
- Allen Williams for Pan's Labyrinth: the Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke (Katherine Tegen)
- Audrey Benjaminsen for “The Time Invariance of Snow” by E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 14 Dec 2019)
Color Work, Unpublished
- Winner: “The Raven, the Wolf and the Maiden”, Debbit Hughes (oil on panel)
- “Anima Sola I”, Lauren Raye Snow (digital)
- “The Devil/The City”, Elizabeth Leggett (digital)
- “The Divine Migration”, David Seidman (digital)
- “If Stones Could Cry”, Bruce Brenneise (digital)
- “Spellbinding Terror”, Martina Facková (digital)
- “Who am I? -- La Marcarena”, Te Hu (digital)
Monochrome Work, Unpublished
- Winner: “Gyhan akaii dannan Deli Iatt (She who sits at the end of the world upon a mountain of bones dreaming)”, Tehani Farr (mixed media, watercolor, graphite pencil)
- “Both Their Coats Were Heavy”, Ken Cunningham (graphite powder on dura-lar)
- “Doctor, My Eyes”, Jeff Echevarria (charcoal, graphite, and gouache)
- “The Hidden Light”, Allen Williams (powdered graphite pencil, oil on board)
- “The Tootsie Monster”, Melissa Sue Stanley (graphite)
Three-dimensional
- Winner: “Selene”, Forest Rogers (mixed media)
- “The Cosmic Egg”, Sara Felix (mixed media)
- “The Crane Wife”, Daria Aksenova (pen, ink, and goldleaf)
- “The Spinner of Dreams”, Kristine Poole (bronze)
- “Unbridled and Unfettered”, Vincent Villafranca (bronze)
Lifetime Artistic Achievement
Art Director
Gaming-related Illustration
- Winner: “King By His Own Hand”, Charles Urbach (GameHole Con)
- “Brazen Borrower”, Iris Compiet (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Flaxen Intruder”, Omar Rayyan (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Lonesome Unicorn”, Winona Nelson (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Rosethorn Acolyte”, Wylie Beckert (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Summer Dandelion”, Melissa Gay (Changeling Artist Collective)
Product Illustration
- Winner: Olde Fae tuck box, Rachel Quinlan (Changeling Artist Collective)
- “La Cantarita”, John Picacio (Lone Boy)
- Dragons 2020 calendar, Emily Hare
- “Full Metal Jacket”, Oliver Barrett (Mondo Poster)
- "The Sky Mage" and "The God Eye" poster art, Tehani Farr (Pawahtun Festival)
- “Stronger”, Kez Laczin (Monstercat) (cover art for the song)
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