List of role-playing game artists

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[]

- by ,^[1] Mongoose Publishing's series such as Traveler, 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
- his published cover art includes Unknown Armies 2nd Ed. (Atlas Games), Weapons of the Gods (Eos Press), Tibet: The Roleplaying Game (Vajra Enterprises), along with various White Wolf / World of Darkness titles and All Flesh Must Be Eaten supplements^[3]

B[]

- main art designer in the Barcelona publishing house; painted covers for (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 Whitewolf projects, most notably Vampire: The Masquerade
Brom - many TSR products (predominantly Dark Sun), Palladium Books covers, the inspiration for Deadlands
Frank Brunner - illustrated different editions of Stormbringer
Jeff Butler

C[]

Clyde Caldwell
Matt Cavotta
Douglas Chaffee
Javier Charro - illustrated for Mongoose, 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
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 FRPG,

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 Whitewolf products, most notably Werewolf; many Wizards of the Coast projects; Dungeons and Dragons, Magic The Gathering 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

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Frazer Irving

J[]

- published art includes work for Wizards of the Coast, Sabertooth Games^[2]
Paul Jaquays
Jeremy Jarvis
- Fantasy Flight Games^[3]
- numerous illustrations for White Wolf's Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage; Sword & Sorcery Studios, AEG, Necromancer Games, Holistic Design, Mythic Dreams^[4]
Veronica V. Jones

K[]

Michael William Kaluta
Dana Knutson
Doug Kovacs

L[]

David S. LaForce
John and Laura Lakey
- 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.)^[5]
Jody Lee - cover art for the third edition of RuneQuest (1984) and the first of Pendragon (1985)
Vince Locke
Todd Lockwood
- 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
Max - pen name of Francesc Capdevila, who signed numerous covers and inner illustrations for (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 Magic: The Gathering 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
- The DNDBBS project DNDBBS
Erol Otus - many early TSR products including S3: Expedition to Barrier Peaks

P[]

Keith Parkinson
Lucio Parrillo
Jim Pavelec
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., , and Anvilwerks^[6]
Jim Roslof
Luis Royo - painted some covers for Spanish role-playing games: first edition (1991) and second edition (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 and Dragons rulebooks; wrote and drew the Elementals comics; scripted the Fables comic series
Robin Wood
Sam Wood
Ben Wootten

Y[]

- has been published by Decipher, Inc., Dream Pod 9, Eden Studios, Inc., Fantasy Flight Games, Necromancer Games, Steve Jackson Games, Sword & Sorcery Studios, Troll Lord Games and White Wolf^[7]

References[]

^ Desolation, A Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Roleplaying Game from Greymalkin Designs
^ [1]
^ Index of Artists Archived 2006-11-06 at the Wayback Machine at Pen & Paper
^ Arnal Ballester official website (in spanish)
^ Untitled Document^{[permanent dead link]}
^ DiTerlizzi's home page
^ http://www.steveellisart.com
^ Kenson, Stephen (July 1999). "ProFiles: Fred Fields". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#261): 112.
^ Hubert de Lartigue's official website (in French)
^ Kenson, Stephen (March 2000). "ProFiles: Rob Lazzaretti". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#269): 20–21.
^ "Eric Lofgren Database Entry". Archived from the original on 2009-01-02. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

[1] Desolation, A Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Roleplaying Game from Greymalkin Designs

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[3] Index of Artists Archived 2006-11-06 at the Wayback Machine at Pen & Paper

[4] Arnal Ballester official website (in spanish)

[5] Untitled Document^{[permanent dead link]}

[6] DiTerlizzi's home page

[7] ttp://www.steveellisart.com

[Dragon_#261-8] Kenson, Stephen (July 1999). "ProFiles: Fred Fields". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#261): 112.

[9] Hubert de Lartigue's official website (in French)

[Dragon_#269-10] Kenson, Stephen (March 2000). "ProFiles: Rob Lazzaretti". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#269): 20–21.

[11] "Eric Lofgren Database Entry". Archived from the original on 2009-01-02. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

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