About the Artist

 Cortney Skinner's artwork appears on the covers and inside of  paperbacks, hardcovers, magazines, collectible card games and more  recently in movies. His work covers an extensive range of subjects  including science fiction, fantasy, history, children's books and  educational texts. He has created artworks in a variety of styles and  media ranging from realistically, highly-rendered historic portraits to  fun, retro cartoons as well as sculptural renditions of all sorts of  people, creatures, objects and characters.
 

Beginning his career in the traditional media of pencil, pen and paint,  he added pixels to his palette at the beginning of the digital age and  continues to peregrinate amongst those paraphernalia as his profession  requires.
 

Nestled comfortably in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Cortney shares life and abode with writer Elizabeth Massie.