Bruce Jensen is an illustrator who has created book covers for the novels of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Charles Sheffield, Joe Haldeman and Linda Nagata. His art has been said to deftly illustrate the mood, and feeling of the book covers his artwork is featured upon.^[1] An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Kim Stanley Robinson at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. ... Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. ... Charles Sheffield (June 25, 1935 – November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. ... Joe Haldeman at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow Joe Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. ... Linda Nagata (1960-) is an American science fiction author. ... Mood may refer to: chese Grammatical mood Emotional mood This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Mona Lisa Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. ...

Early Years

Bruce Jensen began drawing at an early age, drawing the typical childhood birds and dinosaurs. As he grew older he discovered the science fiction literary genre. A book that heavily influenced his decision to become a science fiction cover artist was the book The Skylark of Valeron. When Bruce was in high school he realized his dream to become an artist. He then went on to the Columbus College of Art and Design, and it is here that he developed his more abstract usage of color within his art. Drawing is the act of defining (or delineating) the outlines of a figure against a background, using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques. ... For other meanings of bird, see bird (disambiguation). ... Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), is one of the largest and oldest private art colleges in the United States. ... Look up abstract, abstraction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Career Beginnings

In the summer of 1984 Jensen received his first cover assignment, which went well enough for him to receive others immediately after this. During the next six years after his first book cover he had produced the art for twelve book covers and illustrated a graphic novel, while maintaining full-time work in the television industry. In 1990 Jensen was earning enough money from painting science fiction book covers that he considered it to be his full time job. Sabre (1978), one of the first graphic novels. ...

Development of his Art

When Jensen began painting book covers, his art was representational, meaning it represented scenes from within his book. It was only in the middle of the 1990s that a Bantam editor persuaded Jensen to use his artistic ability and produce paintings that were based on emotion, something that Jensen had wanted to do, but refrained from because he thought they would be rejected. Bantam may mean: American Bantam, a series of compact cars produced between 1937 and 1941 Bantam (chicken), a small (or miniaturized) domestic fowl Bantam (military), British Army jargon (First World War) for men below the minimum height for enlistment X-4 Bantam, a US test aircraft Bantam (city), a city... Emotion, in its most general definition, is an intense neural mental state that arises subjectively rather than through conscious effort and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response to move an organism to action. ...

Links

• Bruce Jensen's Homepage

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