Bob Eggleton (born September 13, 1960) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been fortunate with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He as well as won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book “Greetings From Earth”. He has after that won the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement in 1999 and was the guest of praise at Chicon 2000.
Eggleton’s drawing and paintings cover a wide range of science fiction, fantasy, and horror topics, depicting freshen ships, alien worlds and inhabitants, dragons, vampires, and additional fantasy creatures. His view on space ships were that they should look organic, and claimed that as a child, he was disappointed in the same way as the circulate shuttles and rockets NASA produced; they were nothing like fantasy artists of the twenties and thirties had promised. His raptness with dragons originated as soon as his childhood raptness of dinosaurs, which can be seen in the book Greetings From Earth. His paintings are commissioned and bought at science fiction conventions, and used as stamp album covers.
Eggleton has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.
Eggleton traditional massive encouragement from his father, in the form of books, supplies, visits to museums of express and aeronautics and sustain during the career choices he made. Eggleton dropped out of his art college, because he felt it was not for him.
Eggleton is a enthusiast of Godzilla, has illustrated numerous comics, magazines and children’s books based on the feel and worked as a creative consultant on the American remake. While in Japan he appeared as an further in one of the more recent films.
Asteroid 13562 was named Bobeggleton in his honor.
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