GELLATLY ILLUSTRATION

As a freelance illustrator over the past 25 years, my markets have been in books and magazines. I came into illustration with a job as Associate Art Director at the Woodworker’s Journal Magazine. It was there that I cut my teeth on technical illustration, learning all the techniques and methodology of the how-to (instructional) world.

The Fiction and Nonfiction markets began opening up for me soon after. The crazy disciplined wolfhound with bacon above, is one from the last book of collaborated with the author, Rita Mae Brown for her Sneaky Pie Brown (murder mysteries) series, (Random House). Doing one book a year, she and I have just completed our 24th book together, and I’m very proud of it!

When George R.R. Martin was beginning to put together The World of Ice and Fire, his ‘history book’ behind the whole Game of Thrones book series, Random House steered him to maps I had illustrated for a book some years earlier. He was sold on the look, and we went to work from there - 12 maps of Westeros. For this series I did graphite and ink/watercolor drawings of all the various elements, then digitally constructed each map from there. I’ve had a deep affinity for maps all along, and have drawn and utilized them in endless situations, more often then not, to keep the possibilities of adventure and discovery open. Other map assignments have been for historical, sci-fi, editorial, and psychological purposes.