Cover Art
Andreas Rocha
"Spring Sunset"
Andreas Rocha lives in Lisbon, Portugal, with his wife. He studied architecture, but after college his main occupation veered from architecture towards digital painting, something he had done during college as a hobby. He has been working freelance for three years now, doing conceptual and finished illustrations, matte paintings, and 3D architectural visualizations.
See more of his work, including a movie version of “Spring Sunset,” at www.andreasrocha.com.
Christophe Vacher
"The Canyon"
Christophe Vacher is a French artist who has provided Backgrounds, Visual Development, and Art Direction for Disney, Dreamworks, Universal Studios, and the animation industry since 1989. Relocating to California in 1996, his credits have included artwork for "Dinosaur," "Hercules," "Tarzan," and "Treasure Planet." In 2004, he became Art Director, for the animated segment of Disney's live action movie "Enchanted" and eventually for the CG feature film "9," for which he received an Annie Awards nomination for Best Production Design for a Feature Production. He now shares his time between doing artwork and instructing martial arts and fitness. Visit his online galleries at www.vacher.com.
Raphael Lacoste
"Chinese Steampunk Village"
Raphael Lacoste lives in Canada. He attended CNBDI School in Angouleme, France and received a European Master of Art in 3D animation; his movie "Nîumb" was screened at Siggraph 2000, Imagina 2000, and Anima Mundi 2001. He has been an Art Director on Videogames and Cinematics for over seven years; he worked at Ubisoft on such licenses as Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed. He won a VES Award in 2006 for his work as Art Director on Prince of Persia and the Two Thrones cinematics. He currently works as Senior Art Director for Electronic Arts Montreal. View his gallery at www.raphael-lacoste.com.
Myke Amend
"Sabicu"
Myke Amend is an illustrator and painter of things that often fall under the categories of “strange fiction”, “horror”, “gothic”, “speculative fiction”, “steampunk”, “pulp”, or “science fiction.” He likes to mix the dark with the light-hearted, the serene with the chaotic, making pieces that can invoke a number of different and opposing thoughts and feelings, depending on the viewer or their mood for the moment.
His media of choice tends to be acrylics, but he also does woodcarving, carpentry, metalwork, sculpture in metal and in clay, and pretty much everything that involves some physical connection with the work in progress. He has been featured and/or interviewed in Kilter Magazine, Dark Roasted Blend, IO9, Fantasy Art, Brass Goggles, Elfwood, Superpunch, and many other web magazines and blogs. See more of his work at http://www.mykeamend.com/.
David Renn
"Retreat"
He lives with his wife Robyn and two children Thomas and Elena, in Redland Bay. For more information visit www.davidrenn.com or postapocalypsia.deviantart.com.
Edward Miller
Rick Sardinha
"Endless Skies"
Rick Sardinha is a professional illustrator/fine artist living and working on the outskirts of Providence, Rhode Island. His passion is to create in traditional oil media, however, he is just as comfortable in front of a computer and often uses multiple disciplines in the image creation process. More of his work can be seen at http://www.battleduck.com.
Rick Sardinha
"Endless Skies"
(alternate view)
Mats Minnhagen
"King of Ruins"
The cover art for the Beneath Ceaseless Skies website before our premiere issue was "King of Ruins" by Mats Minnhagen.
Mats Minnhagen is a digital artist living in Sweden. He has worked as Concept Artist on EA Dice and currently freelances with role-playing-game, book, and popular science illustrations. His fantasy painting "Floating Fish" was the cover art for Issue 19 of Clarkesworld Magazine. His online galleries can be viewed on his website at www.minnhagen.com.