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

• Jason Banditt Adams - Desolation RPG by Greymalkin Designs,^[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
• Samuel Araya - 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

• 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 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

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^[2]
• Paul Jaquays
• Jeremy Jarvis
• Andrew Johanson - Fantasy Flight Games^[3]
• Leif Jones - 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
• 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.)^[5]
• 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
• 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
• David O. Miller
• 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
• 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
• 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^[6]
• 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 and 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 & Sorcery Studios, Troll Lord Games and White Wolf^[7]

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