Jim Baen's Universe

Garrett W. Vance 

LEE KURUGANTI is a 3d digital artist. Her specialty is Poser, Bryce, and Photoshop. She also paints and is an accomplished lithographer. Her artwork is colorful and often depicts strong women in heroic situations. She graduates from college in Fall 2006 with a B.A. degree in Creative Writing and Studio Art minor. Her goal in life is to be a full-time working creative professional. Her recent accomplishments include, designing the theatrical poster for the indie film, "Extinction" and book cover art for "Digital Daydreams." She illustrates for many ezines including: Static Movement, Astounding Tales, Withersin, The Lorelei Signal, Writer’s Nook and Reader’s Corner, The Opinion Guy, and Spacesuits and Six Guns. Born in Houston, Texas, she currently resides in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Littleton, Colorado with her husband. Her works can be seen at: http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/leekuruganti/index/

Jennifer Miller's artistic history started around the age of five, a crayon in one hand and her eye's glued on the children's movie "Flight of Dragons". Since then she has gotten a good bit taller, and has acquired a great deal more crayons. Raised in the foothills of western NY State, she spent most of her childhood roaming around the woods, playing with birds and lizards, and doing her best to draw them. She is immensely interested in the natural world around her and draws great inspiration from it. Currently, she lives on the east coast with her fiancé, three parrots, and a myriad of tropical fish. She still takes time to roam the woods whenever possible. The tools of the trade can be practically anything… from watercolors to oils, inks, graphite, acrylic; she even paints on bird feathers. She also enjoys working in a digital format and approaches the digital canvas as she would a real one, with simple painting fundamentals and minimal to no computer rendering. Lighting and atmosphere are her favorite parts of painting, with a particular emphasis on lighting. She has a particular fascination with flight and flighted creatures, and they are a reoccurring theme in her pieces. More of Jennifer's work can be seen at: http://featherdust.critter.net

At the tender age of 2, Karl had begun displaying his talent for recreating the world around him in Crayola, chalk, pencils, dirt, stones... anything he could paint with or draw on... he did. Much to he chagrin of his father and mother, his closet became a giant cave painting of the assorted animals around his family's home. His love for art has sculpted his future, and by entering competitions and winning art contests at school, local variety shows, county and eventually state fairs only added fuel to his creative fire. By the third grade he had a giant step forward by winning State Grand Champion for a life-like pencil rendering of his tattered old tennis shoe. Since then he had a thirst for art that has never been quenched. All through High School and earning his AA in Advertising and Graphic design, Karl excelled academically and creatively. At the Phoenix Institute of Technology in Phienix AZ. Karl earned the School's Student of the Month award, and upon graduation he was awarded the coveted "Art Directors Award" for outstanding achievement. With his skills in art and desire to create, Karl has had the honor of creating art for countless programs, for countless national & international organizations in countless institutions around the world. Currently he Freelances from his home doing art for many different areas of the Creative Art business such as: RPG character portraits, magazine advertisements, web graphics, fine art, fantasy tattoos to name a few. He also works part time creating dynamic T-shirt graphics for a local Silk screening company near his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Wanna see more of his range and artistic talent? You are invited to see at, www.xenoform.deviantart.com 

Bob Greyvenstein

Bob was born in Pretoria, South Africa on 18 April 1974, of Scots /Austrian / Dutch descent.

Bob has been doing art since before he was two years old – the moment he could hold a pen/pencil/crayon he started drawing. Bob never stopped drawing and producing art and sketches – but always with a particular love for fantasy.

Bob always had a healthy and active imagination with a deep and abiding love of fantasy and all things mythological.

He completed High School at an Art school – Pro Arte – one of only two such schools in South Africa at the time. From there Bob went on and studied a degree in Fine Art, specializing in painting, as this was the closest thing to illustration that he could study in SA. Bob worked for some years for a leading SA children’s magazine where he worked as illustrator and graphic designer.

Now, Bob still lives in Pretoria, South Africa and still draws and paints all the time. He does illustration work for various companies and now works as a freelance Graphic Designer / illustrator, although his first love always has been illustration. You can see more at: www.bobgreyvenstein.com