Book Cover art from the amazing Bob Pepper, dating from 1963. A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence – read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus
Image sourced via Flickr User: LarsPowderdry http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/
Game Box art produced by Peter Andrew Jones, as used for the 16/8 bit title ‘Artura’, published by Gremlin Graphics in 1989. More on the game here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/artura
Even by Ian’s own meticulous standards this stunning character Illustration features an insane level of detailing, trippy stuff indeed, love the helmet in particular!.
Image taken directly from Ian’s regularly updated official site http://www.ian-miller.org/ featuring many more samples, full biography, Ian’s prose and poetry plus the chance to buy some of his original art – do check it out…
Following on from Dan McPharlin here’s two samples from another contemporary Illustrator Barnaby Ward, Dick Hogg’s put me on to these examples so I’ll add his notes here:
“This is one of those illustrators who pops up on ffffound every now and then. Not strictly a science fiction illustrator all of the time but the stuff that I like are the ones that have strange robot-like things going on in them. And, erm, girls. Always girls. This bloke has got a one track mind! I love the girls in his drawing. as someone who constantly draws quasi-porn in my sketchbook it makes me sick to find someone who is better at it than me. Ah well, good luck to him. Apparently he lives on an island. Perhaps he is somewhere with a low female population like Alaska!”
See more of Barnaby Ward here: http://www.somefield.com/
and Dick’s work here: http://h099.com/
A sample from the portfolio of contemporary Australian Artist and Illustrator Dan McPharlin, muted and subtle colouring create a very other worldly atmosphere and I think its fair to say the art rendered is as competent as any other example featured on Sci-Fi-O-Rama. Dan has contacted me directly via the blog, and to be honest I was pretty much blown away with his work. In addition to this Roger Dean-esque misty illustration he’s capable of several other style’s including some superb cardboard engineering…. See much more at his Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmcp/ or his portfolio site directly www.danmcpharlin.com/