Here’s another cover from the upcoming Jungle Fantasy #3, this one a spectacular piece by a painter most Avatar readers are familiar with, Carrie Hall.
A self-taught artist who has painted several covers for Avatar in recent years, Hall’s work shows a number of influences including Boris, Julie Bell, Dorian Cleavenger, and perhaps most of all, famed Spanish fantasist Luis Royo. Royo’s brand of shimmering, super-real settings and characters and the sensuality of those characters is particularly noticable in Hall’s painting.
Like many comics artists, Hall got her professional start in the gaming field, on projects such as Forged in Magic and Guild of Blades. Her Avatar cover paintings were her first work in the comics field, and she has done covers for titles such as Jungle Fantasy, Avengelyne, and Glory at Avatar since 2000.
We’ll gather up some more of Hall’s Avatar cover work for a gallery and get a profile section for her here up at the site shortly.