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Alan Gutierrez is a well-known cover artist who has done countless book and game covers. He art ranges from fantasy to science fiction to anime. He has illustrated books for Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Gordon Dickson, and Greg Bear.

Gutierrez has been seen on the covers of many magazines, such as Popular Mechanics, Final Frontier, and Analog, and has also illustrated spacecraft concepts for NASA.

Gutierrez was born in Kansas City in 1958 and grew up in Southern California. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, receiving his BFA in illustration in 1982. He says his passion for science fiction was inspired by Analog and Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine covers by such pioneers as Frank Kelly Freas, Rick Sternbach, and Alex Schomberg.

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He moved to New York in 1983, where Tor Books assigned him to do the cover for The Lagrangists by Mack Reynolds. He worked almost nonstop with cover art for several years, painting many book covers for Tor, Baen, Berkley/Ace, Bantam, Bluejay, and Byron Priess. In 1986 he moved to northern Arizona, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. He continued to paint book covers until the late 1990's.

By 2000, the sci-fi book cover market had dried up for Gutierrez. After trying southwest landscape and New Age art, he settled on the growing popularity of Anime fan art, portraying anime characters in his own realistic art style, which he calls "Anime Fantasy Realism." He's still active with sci-fi gaming art, including Steve Jackson Games, Margaret Weis Enterprises, Pequod Press, and Light Technology Press. He's also made the transition from traditional art to digital art, now doing most of his work using Photoshop.

Alan Gutierrez official site

-- September 21, 2007