Michal Dziekan, our Polish sensation and winner of last years Breakthrough Contest, is busier than ever. On top of working on an extensive campaign for Polish bank PKO (see blog here), he was also asked to create multiple illustrations for TBWA/Raad in Dubai as well as an image for skate board company, Bad News Boards.

Spectrum Fantastic Art, THE publication for sci-fi/fantasy art, announced the list of people accepted into the book. Of our own group, we want to extend a congratulations to Scott Brundage, Tyler Jacobson, Gregory Manchess, Gary Kelley, Edward Kinsella III, Michal Dziekan, Tran Nguyen, and Mark Summers. We also wanted to extend our congratulations to the rest of the accepted artists (see the full list here), it is a great honor.

French artist Thomas Ehretsmann's dark and moody style lends itself very well to the mystery genre. Take a look at this series of covers he painted for a french publisher:

A few months back I was contacted by Loyola Press to do a series of images based on saints throughout time. The only restriction was the cropping of the figures at about thigh high and no where else. This was to allow them to use the figure in silhouette or with the background...

Read the rest of Andrew's process here. 

Even though this Stephen Colbert book, "Nothing but the Truthiness", was released late last year, we thought to share the comical cover painted by James Bennett with our audience.