photo by Chris Trevas

About

Welcome to my website!

I've been creating art professionally for over ten years. I chose this profession because I love telling stories and creating characters. I love creating the worlds these characters live in and I find it very fulfilling that others also enjoy the things I create. Ultimately, I want to tell meaningful stories that make a difference and influence people's lives. . . but for now I don't mind drawing aliens, monsters, and guys with cool looking swords!

I work as a concept artist and illustrator. I grew up on the mean (not really) streets of Canton, Michigan. After graduating from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, I took a job as a product designer at the Franklin Mint in Pennsylvania. Then I worked as a freelance illustrator for several years before trying my hand at concept art for Raven Software in Wisconsin. Currently I reside in the Seattle, WA area where I work as a senior concept artist for Monolith/WB Games. 

I share my life with my lovely and talented wife Emily, also an illustrator (e-figart.com), and our silly little guinea pigs.

Enjoy the site!

-Vinod

Clients:

• Wizards of the Coast
• Paizo Publishing   
• Inhabit Media
• Blizzard Entertainment
• Future Publishing: Imagine FX Magazine
• Hasbro
• The Franklin Mint
• The Noble Collection

You can find my work in these books:

• Book of Vile Darkness (3rd Edition D&D)
• Draconomicon (3rd Edition D&D)
• Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons (3rd Edition D&D)
• Dragonlance the New Adventures (cover and interior art for the entire 23 book series)
• Dragonlance Campaign setting (3rd Edition D&D)
• The Dragon Codex Young Adult Series (cover art for the entire 7 book series)
• Dungeon Masters Guide 2 (3rd Edition D&D)
• Epic Level Handbook (3rd Edition D&D)
• Ghostwalk (3rd Edition D&D)
• Monster Manual 2 (3rd Edition D&D)
• Monster Manual 3 (3rd Edition D&D)
• Planar Handbook (3rd Edition D&D)
• Players Handbook 2 (3rd Edition D&D)
• Players Handbook v.3.5 (3rd Edition D&D)
• Races of the Wild (3rd Edition D&D)
• Races of Faerun (3rd Edition D&D)
• Savage Species (3rd Edition D&D)
• Underdark (3rd Edition D&D)
• Waterdeep (3rd Edition D&D)
• Wheel of Time RPG (3rd Edition D&D)
• Star Wars RPG - Coruscant and the Core Worlds
• Star Wars RPG - Galactic Campaign Guide
• Star Wars RPG - Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
• Star Wars RPG - Ultimate Alien Anthology
• Star Wars RPG - Ultimate Adversaries
• Star Wars RPG - Jedi Academy Training Manual
• Star Wars Gamer Magazine

• Imagine FX Tutorial (issue #53)
• Mwangi Expanse (Paizo Publishing}
• Misfits Monsters Redeemed (Paizo Publishing)
• World of Warcraft TCG

Games I've contributed to:

• Wolfenstein (Raven Software/Activision)
• Singularity (Raven Software/Activision)
• War in the North (Snowblind/WB Games)