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    • About MeIllustration work I’ve been an artist since the late 90′s, and a published illustrator since 1999, when a couple of magazines featured my work at the same time. Since then, I’ve completed many works for various publishers, from small micro-press publishers up through larger publishers like Subterranean and Cemetery Dance. I’m lucky enough to have had a piece chosen for the prestigious Spectrum annual, a yearly competition and book for the best in contemporary genre artwork. The artwork was originally for Wicked Hollow #1, a small press magazine, and is titled “Fetal Position”. It appeared in Spectrum 9, and somehow was the only grayscale piece for 20 pages in any direction. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Fetal Position"][/caption] Since then I’ve done work for Subterranean Press’s Night Visions 12, part of the prestigious line of Night Visions books stretching back to the 1980′s. My work for the Maelstrom imprint of Thunderstorm Books will be seen at the end of 2010. I did three covers and signature sheets for three of their books: Six Days by Kelli Owen, and The Rising: Deliverance and A Gathering of Crows, both by Brian Keene. I’ve worked quite a bit with Cemetery Dance Publications as well,…
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    • Publications/ShowsGallery and convention art show representation My art has been featured in these galleries and convention art shows: OnDisplay Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado (2010-2011) VisionCon, Springfield, Missouri (2010, 2011) The Gallery Underground, Fort Collins, Colorado (2010) Conventions (attendee, guest, and/or participant): World Horror Convention, Austin, Texas (2011) Horrorfest, Denver, Colorado (2011) VisionCon, Springfield, Missouri (2009-2011) KillerCon, Las Vegas, Nevada (2009) Necon, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island (2007) Hypericon, Nashville, Tennessee (2006) List of publications for writing Along with being an artist, I also have articles and stories published here and there. Shotgun Honey Visit Shotgun Honey at shotgunhoney.blogspot.com The Body in the Window (2011) Apex Magazine Online Blog (2010-2011) Visit Apex at www.apexbookcompany.com Jan 2010 – My God, What a Stupid Looking Cover Feb 2010 – WTF? Really? You can’t just tell me who the artist is? Mar 2010 – Sure you can steal from me! Art? Sure! First born? Why not? Apr 2010 – Why the hell would I help you? You’ll steal all my ideas! May 2010 – Here at the end of all things June 2010 – Life, liberty, and the pursuit of—Hey! Why aren’t you mowing the lawn? July 2010 – Practice is for losers Aug…
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Photos from the trip

This is sort of an entry about the trip I just went on to Texas, and sort of showing off a bit of photography, so bear with me.

By Russell Dickerson, 16 yearsJanuary 4, 2009 ago
Design

Graphic design: my red-headed step child

Most people that know me outside of family (both of you, you know who you are) know me as an artist.  But by day, and sometimes even at night, I am also a graphic designer. Sometimes that means signs, or books, or even logos, which is the topic for today.  Read more…

By Russell Dickerson, 17 yearsDecember 8, 2008 ago
General

Geeking out on the new Canon

It’s just a point-and-shoot Canon 880, but it’s a far more advanced camera than my 4 1/2 year old Kodak.  It takes some pretty decent shots, and I think it’ll be a good camera overall.  A few shots… This one shows off the macro ability, which the Kodak never had Read more…

By Russell Dickerson, 17 yearsDecember 6, 2008 ago
General

Portland, Oregon

I just returned from a very long trip to Portland, and I snapped a few pics for the website. As always, if you have any comments just let me know on my MySpace or LiveJournal. I like old signs, especially the faded ones on the sides of buildings: I also Read more…

By Russell Dickerson, 17 yearsNovember 19, 2008 ago
General

New wallpapers for Scratch

I created a few computer desktop/wallpapers from the art that I did for Brian Keene’s Scratch. Here they are below: Download here Download here Download here

By Russell Dickerson, 17 yearsSeptember 10, 2008 ago
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So I went to Yellowstone…

While we were in Yellowstone, the Tetons and Montana for vacation I snapped a few pics.  Here are a few selections below for your enjoyment. The first one here is an abandoned attraction near Casper, Wyoming, that I visited as a kid.  Hell’s Half Acre was always a cool stop Read more…

By Russell Dickerson, 17 yearsJuly 14, 2008 ago
General

Watch out for boards and nails

I’m not quite finished moving things over from the old server, hopefully that will be done this evening.  Adding links, putting in art gallery pages again, all the stuff that makes moving a website so wonderful. At least installing WordPress again was easy enough.

By Russell Dickerson, 17 yearsJune 20, 2008 ago
General

A brief Vegas-oriented hiatus… and Photoshop World!

If you’re looking for This Week’s Art, I wimped out and decided I had too many things to do this week.  I am heading to Las Vegas early in the morning for Photoshop World, which should be quite fun.  Wish me luck!

By Russell Dickerson, 18 yearsSeptember 4, 2007 ago
General

NeCon coming right up

I’m getting excited, NeCon’s just a little bit away now.  I leave the week after this coming week for it (on Tuesday the 17th), where I’ll spend a couple of days in Boston checking out the sites with Tod Clark.  It should be fun, though I’m not 100% sure what Read more…

By Russell Dickerson, 18 yearsJuly 7, 2007 ago
General

Passing Along A Help Wanted

My friend is looking for music/movie reviews for the site that I helped him build, and I thought I’d pass it along to you fine folks. “Consider yourself a good judge of music? Well aren’t we all? The Culture Shock (www.thecultureshock.com) is looking for someone to write album and reviews Read more…

By Russell Dickerson, 18 yearsJune 28, 2007 ago

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