List of role-playing game artists explained

This is a list of notable role-playing game artists, past and present. The people in this list created artwork for one or more notable, published role-playing game book, miniature, or other product.

A

• Jason Banditt Adams - Desolation RPG by Greymalkin Designs,^[1] Mongoose Publishing's series such as Traveller, CONAN, Elric and others, as well as HERO Games titles^[2]
• Attila Adorjany - his work has appeared in comics, video games, film, TV, and roleplaying games including products by White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, and Steve Jackson Games
  • Dave Allsop - his art appears in games for Wizards of the Coast and his own creation SLA Industries for Nightfall Games Glen Angus
• Samuel Araya - his published cover art includes Unknown Armies 2nd Ed. (Atlas Games), Weapons of the Gods (Eos Press), (Vajra Enterprises), along with various White Wolf / World of Darkness titles and All Flesh Must Be Eaten supplements^[3]

B

• Arnal Ballester - main art designer in the Barcelona Joc Internacional publishing house; painted covers for LÍDER (Joc Internacional's magazine), game master's screens (RuneQuest); designed logos, including the LÍDER logo and the Spanish translation logo for Stormbringer^[4]
• Ghislain Barbe - several White Wolf products, including titles from the Exalted setting^[5]
• George Barr
• Thomas Baxa
• Denis Beauvais
• Carlo Bocchio (also known as Jackoilrain) - Dungeons & Dragons
• Tim Bradstreet - many early White Wolf projects, most notably
• Brom - many TSR products (predominantly Dark Sun), Palladium Books covers, the inspiration for Deadlands
• Frank Brunner - illustrated different editions of Stormbringer
• Guy Burwell - GURPS Goblins
• Jeff Butler - Dungeons & Dragons and Marvel Super Heroes RPG

C

• Clyde Caldwell
• Matt Cavotta
• Douglas Chaffee
• Javier Charro - illustrated for Mongoose Publishing, Fantasy Flight Games, Hero Games, Mythic Dreams
• Miguel Coimbra
• Jim Crabtree
• Dennis Cramer
• Carl Critchlow

D

• Ned Dameron
• Liz Danforth - Tunnels and Trolls artist
• Stephen Daniele
• Darlene
• Gene Day - cover art of the first Call of Cthulhu edition (1981)
• Jeff Dee - many early TSR products, including Deities and Demigods
• Eric Deschamps
• Brian Despain
• Tony DiTerlizzi - many early TSR products including 2nd Edition Monster Manual and Planescape series ^[6]
• Larry Dixon
• Vincent Dutrait - Dragon Magazine, Call of Cthulhu, The Dark Eye, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

E

• Jeff Easley - many early TSR products including the Dragonlance series, and the cover to the second edition of the Player's Handbook
• Steve Ellis - many White Wolf products, most notably ; many Wizards of the Coast projects; Dungeons & Dragons, and Kaijudo ^[7]
• Larry Elmore - many early TSR products, including the Dragonlance series
• Wayne England
• Jason Engle
• Newton Ewell

F

• Stephen Fabian
• Emily Fiegenschuh
• Fred Fields^[8]
• Scott Fischer
• Phil Foglio - GURPS IOU, S.P.A.N.C., the Xxxenophile card game
• Carl Frank
• Ken Frank
• Dan Frazier
• Frank Kelly Freas

G

• Rafael Garres
• Donato Giancola
• Lars Grant-West
• Rebecca Guay

H

• Brian Hagan
• Henry Higginbotham
• The Brothers Hildebrandt
• Jim Holloway
• Quinton Hoover
• Daniel Horne
• Ralph Horsley
• David Hudnut

I

• Frazer Irving

J

• Kennon James - published art includes work for Wizards of the Coast, Sabertooth Games
• Jennell Jaquays
• Jeremy Jarvis
• Andrew Johanson - Fantasy Flight Games
• Leif Jones - numerous illustrations for White Wolf's , , and ; Sword and Sorcery Studios, AEG, Necromancer Games, Holistic Design, Mythic Dreams
• Veronica V. Jones

K

• Michael William Kaluta
• Dana Knutson
• Doug Kovacs
• Julian Kok

L

• David S. LaForce
• John and Laura Lakey
• Hubert de Lartigue - illustrated covers, sourcebooks and supplements in the French gaming industry, such as the French translations of RuneQuest, Land of Ninja, and Stormbringer; some of his covers were used in publications in other languages, like his RuneQuest supplement cover Genertela, used in the United States and Spain^[9]
• Rob Lazzaretti^[10]
• April Lee - cover and interior art for a variety of titles including Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea (Alderac), In Nomine (Steve Jackson Games), and Kingdoms of Kalamar (Kenzer & Co.)
• Jody Lee - cover art for the third edition of RuneQuest (1984) and the first of Pendragon (1985)
• Vince Locke
• Todd Lockwood
• Eric Lofgren - credits include magazine articles, interior illustrations, and cover art including the cover art for Steve Jackson Games' GURPS Steam-Tech and Hero Games's Champions Viper^[11]
• Kevin Long - premier artist at Palladium Books from 1986 to 1995 whose work on Rifts and Robotech are foremost among his wide-ranging contributions to Palladium's earlier RPG series, which include Beyond the Supernatural, Heroes Unlimited, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Roger Loveless
• Howard Lyon

M

• Diana Magnuson
• David L. Martin
• Max - pen name of Francesc Capdevila, who signed numerous covers and inner illustrations for LÍDER (Joc Internacional's magazine)
• Angus McBride - main illustrator of the MERP series of rulebooks, sourcebooks and supplements
• Raven Mimura
• Jeff Miracola
• Matthew Mitchell

N

• Jim Nelson
• Mark Nelson
• Russ Nicholson
• Terese Nielsen - famous for her card illustrations; did the cover artwork for the Dungeons & Dragons setting Jakandor in 1998 (Jakandor, Land of Legend and Jakandor, Isle of Destiny); in 1998 she illustrated the covers of three issues of Dragon and several Forgotten Realms novels; in 1999 she started illustrating covers for the 7th Sea role-playing game

O

• William O'Connor
• Erik Jon Oredson - The DNDBBS project DNDBBS
• Erol Otus - many early TSR products including S3: Expedition to Barrier Peaks

P

• Keith Parkinson
• Lucio Parrillo
• Jim Pavelec
• Darcy Perry - DuckQuest
• Michael Phillippi
• Eric Polak
• Alan Pollack
• Randy Post
• Steve Prescott
• Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
• Steve Purcell - several covers for the Different Worlds magazine and RuneQuest supplements

R

• Vinod Rams
• Roger Raupp
• Adam Rex
• Wayne Reynolds
• David Roach
• Jennifer Rodgers - illustrations for publishers, including Blue Devil Games, Decipher Inc., Adept Press, and Anvilwerks
• Jim Roslof
• Luis Royo - painted some covers for Spanish role-playing games: first edition Fuerza Delta (1991) and second edition Far West (1994)

S

• Richard Sardinha
• Christopher Shy
• Kevin Siembieda - worked at Judges Guild illustrating adventure modules for Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest, and Traveller, 1979-1981); after founding Palladium Books, his art and cartography were featured in The Mechanoid Invasion, first edition Palladium Fantasy and Heroes Unlimited, and early Rifts titles
• Dan Smith - interior art for GURPS books
• Mark Smylie
• Brian Snoddy
• John T. Snyder
• Ron Spencer
• Anne Stokes
• David C. Sutherland III - early TSR products and book covers, A Paladin in Hell
• Arnie Swekel
• Tony Szczudlo

T

• Jean Pierre Targete
• Ben Templesmith
• Miles Teves - Skyrealms of Jorune; later became a renowned Hollywood conceptual artist
• Joel Thomas
• David A. Trampier - TSR Hobbies Staff Illustrator; creator of Wormy, a comic strip that ran in The Dragon magazine; infamous for mysteriously vanishing for decades before resurfacing in a newspaper interview as a cab driver
• Timothy Truman - TSR Hobbies Staff Illustrator (early 1980s)
• Francis Tsai

V

• Valerie Valusek
• Susan Van Camp
• Jon Van Caneghem - responsible for the Might and Magic series
• Franz Vohwinkel

W

• Kev Walker
• Karl Waller
• Kevin Wasden
• Anthony S. Waters
• Tom Wham
• Michael Whelan - many TSR products including 2nd Edition Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide; his Elric illustration for the 1977 revised edition of the Stormbringer novel was used by Chaosium to illustrate the fourth edition (1990) of the Stormbringer role-playing game
• Chuck Whelon
• Eva Widermann
• Bill Willingham - many early golden age TSR products, notably the Basic and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks; wrote and drew the Elementals comics; scripted the Fables comic series
• Robin Wood
• Sam Wood
• Ben Wootten

Y

• Kieran Yanner - has been published by Decipher, Inc., Dream Pod 9, Eden Studios, Inc., Fantasy Flight Games, Necromancer Games, Steve Jackson Games, Sword and Sorcery Studios, Troll Lord Games and White Wolf

Notes and References

1. http://www.desolationrpg.com/partners.htm Desolation, A Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Roleplaying Game from Greymalkin Designs
2. Web site: Home . Rogue-Artist.com.
3. http://www.pen-paper.net/galleryindex.php Index of Artists
4. http://www.arnalballester.com/home.html Arnal Ballester official website (in spanish)
5. http://www.qosmiq.au.com/cdiadrone/ghis/pfolio/pube.htm Untitled Document
6. http://www.diterlizzi.com DiTerlizzi's home page
7. Web site: Home . steveellisart.com.
8. Kenson. Stephen. Steve Kenson. ProFiles: Fred Fields. Dragon.
   1. 261
   . 112. Wizards of the Coast. Renton, Washington. July 1999.
9. http://www.hubertdelartigue.com/ Hubert de Lartigue's official website (in French)
10. Kenson. Stephen. Steve Kenson. ProFiles: Rob Lazzaretti. Dragon.
    1. 269
    . 20–21. Wizards of the Coast. Renton, Washington. March 2000.
11. Web site: Eric Lofgren Database Entry . 29 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090102003524/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=381 . 2009-01-02 . dead .