Welcome

Thank you for visiting the official website for science fiction and fantasy illustrator David Lee Anderson. I hope you enjoy the galleries of art and will consider giving me feedback on the paintings you see here. I started showing art at science fiction conventions in July 1980 and have met many wonderful fans, artists, writers, editors and publishers over the years. My work has been published nationally and internationally since 1985 and has been purchased by hundreds of art collectors from around the country. I am thankful for you visiting my site, and hope that you enjoy the artwork.

News

Best news I have recently is that two of my paintings will be used for the opening credits sequence in a Fox Searchlight film called Gentlemen Broncos http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1161418/, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Broncos, directed by Jared Hess. He and his wife Jerusha wrote the film; the same team who wrote Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, also directed by Jared Hess. It will be produced by Mike White, who is also an actor featured in School of Rock. Gentlemen Broncos tells the story of a teenage outcast and aspiring fantasy writer. He attends a fantasy convention to show off his work and finds that his idea, Yeast Lords, has been stolen by acclaimed novelist Ronald Chevalier, who has turned desperate for ideas. There is a "film within the film" that shows the teenager's version, played by Michael Angarano of Forbidden Kingdom, and the version ripped off by Ronald Chevalier. You can see why they thought my work might fit their concept. There is a funny website featuring Jemaine Clement as Ronald Chevalier, at http://ronaldchevalier.com/. He is a comedian who is half of the FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, a hilarious HBO comedy, featuring a hapless New Zealand pair of musicians in New York. They've also had a very successful album of parody rock songs from the television series.

I am just finishing a new cover for Yard Dog Press, for a trade edition paperback called A GLIMPSE OF SPLENDOR AND OTHER STORIES by Dave Creek. Most of them were originally published in ANALOG magazine. It's a collection of stories, but it has a novel-like complexity, because they are all linked to events concerning the planet Splendor. Some of the same characters recur in the various stories, and it's really hard science fiction with great aliens, space stations, habitats and complex social issues.

In older news, I saw the STS-120 space shuttle launch on October 23, 2007. As a lifetime space enthusiast you couldn't believe how exciting it is to witness an actual launch. My wife Carolyn, my mother and I went to the Kennedy Space Center complex and watched the launch at 11:38 AM from about six miles away. We were lucky that the launch was on time, because the launches before and after were delayed. The ground shook as the shuttle lifted off, even from that far away, and I took sequential pictures of the launch as it progressed. The crowd of space fans were as delighted, applauding and cheering as the shuttle flew into the stratosphere.

Be sure to take advantage of the prints and originals I have for sale online using PayPal. If there is a piece you are interested in that does not have a price listed, be sure to email me your request. I send art to many convention art shows as well, listing many of those conventions on the Resources page.

I also accept commissions for science fiction or fantasy ideas that you would like to have realized. You may have an idea for a customized space art piece, or a gaming character that you would like to have illustrated. I have done portraits of individuals in science fiction or fantasy settings. I've painted space art concepts many times for individual collectors, some which are shown in the space art gallery.

Please check out my covers for ALMOST HUMAN by Gary Moreau, ALL THE MARBLES by Dusty Rainbolt and OF STARS AND SHADOWS by Mark W. Tiedemann at Yard Dog Press (www.yarddogpress.com). You can purchase the books from them online. You will also find BUBBAS OF THE APOCALYPSE, edited by Selina Rosen, and FOUR BUBBAS OF THE APOCALYPSE, both including stories by my website designer Robert D. Brown. The third anthology is INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF BUBBAS, and the fourth one, released last year, is called HOUSTON: WE HAVE BUBBAS! I wrote a story for the collection FLUSH FICTION: VOLUME 1 called "Thoughts While Bleeding to Death". It's a book of short-short stories by many of the Yard Dog authors.