A podcast series putting the spotlight on board game artists. Hosted by Oliver Kinne from the Tabletop Games Blog at https://tabletopgamesblog.com
Rob Ingle works for Stop, Drop and Roll Games Studio and has been an artist for a long time. As he says himself, he is straightforward, honest and punctual. He is skilled in illustration, design and all manner of creative work. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/03/30/rob-ingle-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Amelie Le-Roche is a veteran video game animator, creating games in her free time. She loves to explore different art styles and unique themes while creating family-friendly board games. She started Zerua Games in 2018 (which means "sky" in Basque) as a creative outlet. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/03/02/amelie-le-roche-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Albert Pinilla is an illustrator born in Barcelona. He is the co-creator and illustrator of the card game We Can Play: Women Who Changed The World and co-creator of the game publisher Julibert. He has also illustrated books such as The Interactive Constitution and Climate Change, the Choice Is Ours and has illustrated children's board games for companies such as Jumbo Disset, Goula, Nathan and Headu. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/02/09/albert-pinilla-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Melissa Douglas, also known as Kittykatmaniac, or Kitty for short, is a 2D artist known for neon art and their love of villains. They have been an artist for almost 30 years and will continue to be for many more years to come. Currently, Melissa is a full-time toy designer, but is still always open to freelance work, especially for boardgame illustrations. Melissa has got a dorky cat named Venom, after one of their favourite comic book characters. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/07/07/melissa-douglas-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
After graduating as an illustrator from Emile Cohl school in France, Atha Kanaani moved to Montréal to work for F2Z Entertainment on the game Traders of Osaka. A couple of year later he moved back to France and became a full-time illustrator for Z-Man Games. Atha has worked on games like Pandemic, Smile Mesozooic and Through the Desert. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/04/07/atha-kanaani-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
İrem Erbilirgil is an accomplished 2D and 3D artist from Istanbul, Turkey. She is currently working on the upcoming game Keystone: North America by the recently founded Rose Gauntlet Entertainment, where her realistic art style really comes to the fore. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/02/17/irem-erbilirgil-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Jacqui Davis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to the UK as a kid. After graduating with a 1st in Animation from Staffordshire University in 2012, she began freelancing. She is also known as the Logic Fairy and currently lives and works in Lytham-St-Annes, where she enjoys walks through the woods or ambles along the estuary. She paints everything from adorable animals to villainous wizards, bringing life to characters she is passionate about. She listens to a good audiobook or has a movie on in the background while painting, and when she is not painting she keeps the creative mojo going by doing a spot of writing. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/02/03/jacqui-davis-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Nikita Sullivan has always been a techie and surrounded by nerds. She has a BSc in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence and after working as a software engineer, she became a freelance graphic designer. She always loved being creative, so decided to become a board game designer. It allowed her to learn a lot of new things while being creative every single day. Her games Tri To Win and Mini Memory Mischief were self-published and she has more coming up. Nikita also publishes The Indie Tabletop Newsletter and generally enjoys sharing her experiences with the online board game community, supporting them however she can. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/01/20/nikita-sullivan-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Madeleine Fjäll is a 2D-artist who loves to make artwork inspired by history and fantasy. She has a bachelor's degree in Game Design and Graphics and has a Higher Vocational Education Degree in 2D-graphics, which helps her a lot as an artist in the board game industry. Right now she's working at Ion Game Design and is an artist for the games Pax Viking, Bios:Mesofauna and Dawn on Titan. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/01/06/madeleine-fjall-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Harald Lieske was born in 1975 in Siegen, Germany and is an illustrator, game designer and musician. After beginning to study art in Siegen, he switched to studying design in Münster with a focus on game illustration and comics. Even during his studies, he already created relationships with publishers and was created illustrations for a few games. During this time he also worked on a handful of game prototypes. At the end of his studies, he had two prototypes, one of which (Das Gold der Inka) has already been published. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/12/23/harald-lieske-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Mihai Georgescu is a freelance artist living in Scotland. He enjoys drawing goblins, painting miniatures and having too many hobbies. Throughout his career, he has created band logos, album covers, video game assets, and really silly sketches on sticky notes. He is most proficient in Adobe Photoshop and, more recently, Clip Studio Paint. His most ambitious project so far has been the continued work on the board game Arcane Blaster Casters as the art half of Battle Boar Games. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/12/09/mihai-georgescu-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Sabrina Miramon is a French illustrator based in the UK who works mostly on boardgame and video game art, but also does the occasional book illustration. She originally studied 3D, but after a few years decided that she preferred drawing and painting. Her artwork has appeared in games such as Ecos: First Continent, Coral Islands, Welcome to DinoWorld, Planet and many others, having worked with publishers such as Iello, AEG, Blue Orange, Alley Cat Games among others. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/11/25/sabrina-miramon-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Natalia Rojas is a self-taught artist and illustrator from Colombia living in Tampa, Florida. She specializes in highly detailed and realistic graphite and coloured pencil drawings and loves to create portraits of people, pets and wildlife, as well as meaningful pieces that could be anything from a portrait of a loved one to a special item or a still life. She has worked on the board game Wingspan by Stonemaier Games, as well as all its expansions. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/11/11/natalia-rojas-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Jessi Cabasan is a freelance artist based in Co. Meath, Ireland. She works in a variety of industries including games, logo making and traditional pencil portraits. She designed the artwork for the game board and cards for Luzon Rails published on Kickstarter in 2020. She is skilled in graphic design and illustration with Affinity Designer on the PC, Artstudio Pro and Procreate on the iPad and photo editing with Adobe Lightroom. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/10/28/jessi-cabasan-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Rory Muldoon is a graphic designer and games designer from the south-east of the UK. After going freelance in 2016 he began working on is own game, Skora, which has recently been published by Inside the Box Board Games. Alongside his own projects, he has created artwork and graphic design for tabletop games such as Solar Storm and Tinderblox. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/10/14/rory-muldoon-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Julie Okahara was born in Osaka, Japan and after graduating from Osaka Industrial Arts High School, began work as a graphic designer. Wanting to further their studies in studio art, Julie came to California in 2005. Since then Julie has expanded into acrylic painting, ink drawing, sewing and clay sculpting. This year, she started teaching herself animation and now live-streams with interactive animations on her Twitch channel. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/09/30/julie-okahara-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Naomi Robinson is a freelance artist and illustrator based in the North-West of the UK. She has worked on a variety of different board games and RPG books, with a wide range of styles and themes. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/09/16/naomi-robinson-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Keturah Ariel Nailah Bobo is an Ohio native and a BFA graduate from the Columbus College of Art and Design. She grew up with parents that instilled in her the importance of individuality and creativity. Keturah is known for creating vibrant images that are relatable and distinguishable. She is the lead game illustrator for Cards For All People and the #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator of I Am Enough by Grace Byers. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/09/02/keturah-ariel-nailah-bobo-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Tumo Mere is a concept artist and illustrator specializing in video games and comics. He is also the lead artist for the Swordsfall RPG. Hailing from Botswana, Tumo incorporates a modern African style through their intricate art and cultural knowledge. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/08/19/tumo-mere-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Marco Bucci is a freelance artist and his experience includes books, film, animation, and advertising. He has worked for Walt Disney Publishing Worldwide, LEGO, LucasArts, Mattel Toys, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, among many others. He is also a passionate teacher and currently teaches “The Art Of Color & Light” at CGMA. Find out more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/08/05/marco-bucci-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message
Andrew Bosley has been a professional concept artist in the video game industry since 2006 and in 2013 became a freelance concept artist and illustrator. He has worked on games including Everdell, Tapestry, Mission: Red Planet and Citadels. He is also a game designer and writer. Read more here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/07/22/andrew-bosley-let-me-illustrate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letmeillustrate/message