Doug Kovacs

Douglas Kovacs is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.

Doug Kovacs
Doug Kovacs at Gen Con on August 7, 2011
NationalityAmerican
Known forFantasy art

Early life and education

Doug Kovacs was born in 1973, and grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. In 1996 he received a BA from Columbia College Chicago.[1]

Works

Doug Kovacs has worked as a freelance illustrator for Wizards of the Coast on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. He has been working on a series of metal plate paintings depicting Green Men since 1999. His work has been described as "detailed fantasy and science fiction renderings of mythical creatures".[2] Doug also worked with Goodman Games in developing Dungeon Crawl Classics, and painted the covers for many of the modules and rulebooks.[3] An award was named after him at the Gen Con Art Show which is given out to the artist for being "[most like] Doug Kovacs".[4]

References
  1. http://dougkovacs.com/09%20Info%20%26%20Detritus/Info%26Detritus.html
  2. "Des Plaines Art Guild". Daily Herald. January 10, 2011. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2012. – via HighBeam Research (subscription required)
  3. "Dungeon Crawl Classics". www.goodman-games.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.
  4. "I am back from GenCon–with art to boot. | Jeremy McHugh".


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