| At
the time of writing Jon Hodgson is in his mid 30s and lives in Scotland,
UK though he happens to have been born south of the border in England.
His career has spanned set building, props making, graphic design,
story boarding, historical illustration, card game art, board game
art, computer games cut scene art, educational illustration and roleplaying
game art.
So
far in his short career (Eight or so years full time at the last
count) Jon has made over 150 pieces of card art for collectable
card games, solo illustrated 15 books with 30 plus illustrations
each for Warhammer Historical, has provided cover art for some 30
gaming books as well as numerous pieces of packaging art, made illustrations
for the biggest roleplaying game in the world - Dungeons and Dragons,
as well as for some of the smallest. At one point he was a story
boarder for the children's animated show Bob the Builder. Jon
trained as a "fine artist", specialising in abstract painting.
Apparently.
Jon works with international clients over the internet and finds
e-mail a very useful business tool. In short - distance is no object.
Enquiries about rates and schedule are always welcome. Just hit
the "contact" button. Jon
uses an Apple PowerMac G5, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter IX.5,
a Wacom Intuos 3, and a lot of coffee. As well as pencils and paper,
and very occasionally actual real paint. |