Todd Lockwood

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Todd Lockwood
Fantasy art

Todd Wills Lockwood (born July 9, 1957)

Dungeon Magazine
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Biography

Todd Lockwood was born in

Art Directors Club of New York's annual show.[2] He then focused his career on illustration, doing freelance illustration for about fifteen years: "Coors was one of my biggest clients... I could paint beer cans in my sleep. At one point I had some covers I had done for Satellite Orbit magazine. For years after that I was 'the satellite dish guy.' I came to really hate satellite dishes and beer cans. If I had ever had a painting with both a beer can and a satellite dish in it, my ad career would have been complete."[2]

Lockwood was an avid Dungeons & Dragons game player, and a fan of fantasy art. "I flipped when TSR started having really good art in their products... Jeff Easley's stuff particularly interested me: so moody and fluid, so deft. Then Brom came along and really blew my doors off."[2] Lockwood decided to try fantasy and science-fiction illustration: "My first artistic influence, like so many in this field, was Frank Frazetta. Later came Michael Whelan, though I had some ad-world influences, too, particularly after I started art school. But I really wanted to be Michael Whelan."[2] Lockwood listed his other influences as David Wilcox, Peter Lloyd, Boris Vallejo, and Jeff Jones.[3] Lockwood first did some covers for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine: "That was the beginning. I felt revived. I was finally painting things that interested me!"[2]

In 1994,[

Washington state.[3] Working for Wizards, he continued to work on the D&D line and on Magic: The Gathering.[citation needed
]

Lockwood produced art for the

World Science Fiction Convention.[2] In 1999, he helped to redefine the look of the Dungeons and Dragons game for the Third Edition release.[5] In 2002, after Hasbro
bought Wizards of the Coast, Lockwood returned to freelancing.

He and his wife and three children reside in

Washington
state.

Works

His first art book, Transitions: Art of Todd Lockwood, from the British publisher Chrysalis Books, was released in September 2003.[6][7]

Awards

His work has been honored with multiple appearances in Spectrum and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, twelve Chesley Awards, including one for Artistic Achievement, two World Fantasy Art Show Awards, and numerous other industry awards.

  • 1995: World Fantasy Art Show Award Best monochrome for Cerberus
  • 1996: World Fantasy Art Show Award Best monochrome for Kali
  • 1996: Chesley Award Best Monochrome for Cerberus
  • 1997: Chesley Award Best Interior Illustration Death Loves Me, magazine Realms of Fantasy, June 1995[8][9]
  • 1998: Chesley Award Best Cover, for Black Dragon, magazine Dragon, August[10]
  • 1999:Chesley Award Best Gaming Product, cover for Dragonlance 15th Anniversary Game Module[11]
  • 2001: Chesley Award 2001 Best Cover, for Swashbuckler, magazine Dragon, July 2000[12]
  • 2003: Chesley Award 2003 Best Cover Illustration, hardback book The Thousand Orcs for Wizards of the Coast[13]
  • 2003: Chesley Award 2003 Best Cover Illustration, Hellfire Dragon for the magazine Dragon, December 2002[13]
  • 2003: Chesley Award 2003 Best Gaming-Related Illustration, cover for City of the Spider Queen, Dungeons & Dragons game module[13]
  • 2004: Chesley Award 2004 Artistic Achievement[14]
  • 2004: Chesley Award 2004 Best Cover Illustration, paperback book Tangled Webs for Wizards of the Coast[14]
  • 2004: Chesley Award 2004 Best Interior Illustration Crossing Into Empire, for Realms of Fantasy magazine[14]
  • 2004: Chesley Award 2004 Best Gaming-Related Illustration Draconomicon, Dungeons & Dragons accessory for Wizards of the Coast[14]

References

  1. ^ "Authors : Lockwood, Todd". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Kenson, Stephen (April 1999). "ProFiles: Todd Lockwood". Dragon (#258). Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast: 96.
  3. ^ a b "Todd Lockwood". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009.
  4. ^ D'Ammassa, Don (January 2003). "Masters of Dragonlance Art", Chronicle 25 (1): 30.
  5. ^ "Black Gate » Articles » Art Evolution 14: Todd Lockwood". Blackgate.com. 15 December 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  6. ^ (November 10, 2003). "Long Time Coming", Publishers Weekly 250 (45): 47.
  7. ^ "Anova Books". Archived from the original on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  8. ^ "ASFA 12th Annual Chesley Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2006-10-05. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  9. ^ Abell, Joe (August 31, 1997). "Sci-fi practitioners honored at convention", San Antonio Express-News, p. B1.
  10. ^ "ASFA 13th Annual Chesley Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  11. ^ "ASFA 14th Annual Chesley Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2006-10-12. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  12. ^ "The 16th Annual Chesley Awards". Archived from the original on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  13. ^ a b c "The 18th Annual Chesley Awards". Archived from the original on 2006-10-05. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  14. ^ a b c d "The 19th Annual Chesley Awards". Archived from the original on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2006-11-17.

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