Todd Lockwood's Pirate King Step-by-Step

Todd Lockwwod has posted an extensive step-by-step for R. A. Salvatore's The Pirate Kingcover -- including reference shoots and perspective drawings.
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Todd Lockwood, Step by Step

I asked Todd Lockwood if he would be willing to let me show one or two progression shots of his painting for Pyr's The Stormcaller. Instead, he gave me a comprehensive step-by-step. Check out Tor.com to see him go from thumbnail to final.

Todd Lockwood, sketch to final.

Tobias Buckell and Todd Lockwood Talk Cover Art

Suvudu has a series of videos of Toby Buckell and Todd Lockwood talking about their work. Here is this first segment. Check out the Suvudu post to see the others.

SF Signal is Talking to Artists

Go see how Todd Lockwood, Dave Seeley, Jeremey Geddes, John Picacio, Donato Giancola, Glenn Orbik, and Bob Eggleton answer the question:

As an illustrator, what was it that drew you to science fiction and fantasy to begin with, and what place do you feel illustration has in the science fiction and fantasy field?

Todd Lockwood is...

...blogging!

(Thanks for the heads-up, Doogman.)

But wait, there’s more!

We’ve added artist's wallpapers to the Tor.com pre-launch giveaways.

The first two come courtesy of Todd Lockwood and Stephan Martiniere -- because they are awesome painters and because they are awesome. (Thanks again, guys!) These are from Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory's To Light a Candleand Jay Lake's Escapement

They should be up and available tomorrow morning. If you haven’t registered yet, go here now. I mean it.

The Lockwood Affair

I got to see a bit of this unfold from Todd’s point of view over the weekend. It was a bit of a panic but, thankfully, everyone seems to have come through in good stead. While I certainly regret Todd’s stressful weekend, I think a number of his friends were all enjoying the lemonade of seeing the huge response of the image as it spread throughout the internet.

From Multichannel:

"Upper Deck Entertainment commissioned the hush-hush artwork from award-winning fantasy artist Todd Lockwood and used it to develop a Stephen Colbert card they hoped to include in their upcoming World of Warcraft TCG (trading card game) deck.

But, according to Lockwood, Upper Deck was forced to shelve the card after Colbert’s reps rejected the idea. And Lockwood’s art never saw the light of day – until an unknown someone distributed it on the Internet........"