The Sorcerer Evoragdou
- THE SORCERER EVORAGDOU - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in a book, "Refugees From An Imaginary Country," by Darrell Schweitzer, published by Ganley-Owlswick in 1999.
Every story presents challenges to an illustrator; one can play it safe and select simple or common things to draw like character portraits, or one can decide to illustrate unique scenes requiring some invention and creative innovation.
That is what I liked about being a science fiction and fantasy illustrator, the challenges I was confronted with, like the one I faced when I decided to illustrate a scene in the story in which a house with gables and balconies, and spires, starts chasing a young man . . .
The SF artists who inspired me to become an illustrator were those who were inventive and creative in their approach to illustration; beginning with Alex Raymond who drew Flash Gordon in the Sunday Newspaper Comics Section in 1939, when I was a kid. Later came Virgil Finlay, Edd Cartier, Hannes Bok, Hubert Rogers, Lawrence Stevens, Frank Frazetta, and many others whose artwork moved something inside my soul that made me want to be one of them.
The young boys and girls growing up today are not being inspired to draw and paint by the artists who inspired me, they have the outstanding artists of today who are giving them their dreams. That's the way the "dream" moves on from one generation to the next.
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