Hugo Awards: Best professional and fan artists

Two categories in today’s Hugo Awards post: best professional and best fan artist. First up, best professional artist:

1. Fiona Staples: I know her artwork from Saga and love the way she can make the outrageous look mundane without losing the ability to awe you with her artwork.
2. Julie Dillon: I love the bulk she gives her art.
3. John Harris: has a very seventies, Chris Fossian with New Wave influences art style which I like if only for nostalgic reasons.
4. Galen Dara: slightly too twee for me. Nothing wrong with her artwork, just not for me.
5. John Picacio: great artwork, but there are stronger contenders.
6. Daniel Dos Santos: eh. Decent artwork and not a shame if he wins, but it was all too conventionally pretty and unimaginative for me.

Best fan artist:

1. Sarah Webb: great looking fantasy art and she’s only 19 years old? Bloody hell.
2. Mandie Manzano: I like those glass in lead paintings a lot.
3. Spring Schoenhuth: Great looking sfnal jewelry
4. Steve Stiles: Steve has been doing fanart for a long time now and it’s nicely cartoonish. Not surprising, considering he’s a comic book artist.
5. Brad W. Foster: very traditional (ie dull) fanart. Eh.

Next post: but what about the Retro Hugos?