The second and third days of the Illustration Master Class have been filled with steady work in Studios 101 and 201 here in Amherst, Massachusetts. Each big studio room has about 40 students working on fantasy and science fiction illustrations for the remainder of the week.
From left to right: Sam Flegal showing scrap for "Warrior Priest," John Deininger with a color swatch chart getting ready to begin the painting, Eugene Young with a Sculpey maquette for Beauty and the Beast, and me and Grant Cooley with his incredible steampunk-kit-bashed jet-cycle maquette.