Images for Fantastic Stories magazine

Project is 12 or 13 illos for one issue (all interior artwork), inc. six full-page illos. 

Full-page illo for Alan Dean Foster's "The White Hotel" - about a terrified woman lost in a white hotel, hearing mysterious voices...

Here is a near-finished (keyboards and additional definition to the girl's hair to be added) version of the large illo for "SYSOP", about a woman whose computer controls the universe.

The near-finished main illo for "Witching Hour", about a guy whose task is to devise a clock and calendar for a new planet - and get paid for it.

Stored Dreams: about a man and woman lost in a bookstore where all the books are books of dreams.

Four of the six full page illos will fit together into one larger image.  (So after the reader is done with the magazine, he/she can pull it apart and rearrange the illos to form a larger image.  This is a sketch of the layout of the six full-pagers, with indications of which portions will illustrate which stories:

And here is the layout with the illo for "The White Hotel", "Sysop", "Witching Hour" and "Meme" inserted:

Full page illo for Meme

The set of illos will also include 6 or 7 smaller illustrations (all stories get a total of two illos, but "Gravesend," because it is so long will get a total of three or four). 

Main, full-page illo for "Meme," which is a story about a thirty-something guy, bored and sad and lonely, working in a photomat shop discovers the meaning behind weird music-like runes in some fotos he's developing. 

I previously showed one illo for "SYSOP," which, as I mentioned, is about a woman whose computer controls the universe.  She is being harassed by a glowing demonic Satan-the-accuser type, represented by a glowing angry hand.  This piece was a painting mounted in a computer monitor with various cutesy things stuck on it, in the way people do so often in offices.  In the final version, the frame (including the writing on the Post-Its) will be clearer. 

Sysop Illo B:

WITCHING HOUR (B)

The second illo for "White Hotel (B)"

Second illo for "Stored Dreams" (Stored Dreams B):

Gravesend is a complex fantasy piece involving a wolf character, various wizards, monsters, children of the street, etc.

In this image (B) we see a weird monkey beast being created by the hands of wizard (which hands are tattoed with runes).  There are two versions, "normal" and "with inversions"; in the later version, parts of the image are reversed. 

Gravesend C.  In this scene one of the characters battles a large locust-like creature (this image is not quite done yet).

Meme B (second, smaller illo for "Meme").  A thirty-something guy, bored and sad and lonely, working in a photomat shop discovers the meaning behind weird music-like runes in some fotos he's developing.