I like to try new mediums as much as possible.My first inspiration to do fantasy art was watching Ray Harryhausen movies as a kid.Then I wanted to do paintings when I saw the novel cover art of Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta. My new influences are Todd Lockwood, JP Targete, and Matt Wilson to name a few. I get a lot of ideas for my fantasy creatures from nature. Using wildlife as a basis to try to give some realism to them.

Stanley W. Morrison is a self-taught fantasy artist who has been drawing anything he could imagine since childhood. Besides being a fantasy artist Stanley works fulltime at an art manufacturer, which wholesales to the furniture industry, as their art director. He has designed and produced art for furniture companies such as Rooms-to-Go, Haverty’s, Matter Brothers, and Thomasville. Stanley took his art in a new direction in 1995 when he became enthralled with the scratchboard technique as a medium that captures and enhances the texture of fantasy creatures. Nominations for Chesley Awards for scratchboard monochrome pieces followed in 1997, 1999,2000 and 2006. Stanley has won numerous awards for scratchboard pieces and paintings at Dragoncon, Worldcon, Lunacon, Boskone, Arisia, Aggiecon, and OASIS, where his “Polar Princess” won Best of Show in 2001. Stanley’s talented use of diverse mediums such as scratchboard, oils, acrylics, digital, pastels, and pencil allow for versatile expression of his fertile imagination. Stanley’s past projects include interior illustrations for an issue of Dragonlance “Age of Mortals “and “ Bestiary of Krynn”. Interior art for Dark Skull Studios. He is currently working on gaming cards for Conquest of Arthenia, Concept art for Altura studios, Concept art for Boohag Studios, and interior art for Doorways Magazine