Mark A. Nelson (born 1953)[1] is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games[2] and comic books. Nelson's style has been described as "carefully articulated".[3]
Nelson is an accomplished artist and educator, having taught at Northern Illinois University for two decades and worked at Raven Software and Madison Area Technical College. He later served as art director/head concept artist at Pi Studios and now runs Grazing Dinosaur Press with his wife. Nelson has illustrated numerous Dungeons & Dragons books, other games, and comic books for various publishers since the 1980s. Additionally, he has contributed to Eureka Productions' Graphic Classics series and authored an instructional book, Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures, published in 2019.
From the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, Nelson worked for Raven Software doing conceptual work, painting digital skins, and creating textures for computer games. During this period, he was an animation instructor at Madison Area Technical College.[4] Nelson was art director/head concept artist at Pi Studios in Houston from 2008 to 2011. He now runs his own studio (along with his wife, Anita), Grazing Dinosaur Press.
^Broeske, Pat H. (October 30, 1988). "Eggstraordinary", Los Angeles Times, p. 20.
^Szadkowski, Joseph (October 12, 1996). "The Dark Horse decade: A long, cool reign of mature and diverse comics", The Washington Times, p. B4.
^Szadkowski, Joseph (April 8, 1995). "Hero chats with cartoon creators", The Washington Times, p. B4.
^Nelson, Mark. "Blood Dance". Joe R. Lansdale. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
^Nelson, Mark A. (13 February 2019). Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN978-0-486-82865-7.
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