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, Mongoose Publishing's series such as Traveller, CONAN, Elric and others, as well as HERO Games titles
 * 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

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
 * Ghislain Barbe - several White Wolf products, including titles from the Exalted setting
 * George Barr
 * Thomas Baxa
 * Denis Beauvais
 * Carlo Bocchio (also known as Jackoilrain) - Dungeons & Dragons
 * Tim Bradstreet - many early White Wolf 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
 * 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
 * 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 Werewolf: The Apocalypse; many Wizards of the Coast projects; Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and Kaijudo
 * Larry Elmore - many early TSR products, including the Dragonlance series
 * Wayne England
 * Jason Engle
 * Newton Ewell

F

 * Stephen Fabian
 * Emily Fiegenschuh
 * Fred Fields
 * 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 Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Mage: The Ascension; 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
 * Rob Lazzaretti
 * 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
 * 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 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
 * 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