List of illustrators
Here is a list of illustrators of Dominion cards and box covers. See Gallery of illustrations for the original art, all on one page.
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I will single out Marcel-Andre Casasola-Merkle and Claus Stephan as favorite artists. As an example of really nailing a tricky concept, I will single out Ill-Gotten Gains.
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In general I leave as much as possible up to the artist. The whole point to the notes is just that some early cards had the wrong thing illustrated. The image on Goons was submitted for Pawn; Steward showed a guy with a serving dish. Not everyone was going to know the terms and sometimes they're ambiguous. Not everyone was going to feel like doing any research. So I started typing up notes.
Treasures often say "no people" because some of the Prosperity ones showed people and I didn't like that as much. A few times I've pointed out things not to do like "no New World crops" or "no gore." Sometimes I've noted the frame color or that something is an attack; I stopped doing that eventually but probably should have kept it up. In rare cases there has been something special to communicate, like the Ruins being ruined versions of things, or the Hermit/Madman connection.
There is an opening paragraph that probably they all get, that notes that the game is medieval, and says the expansion theme. It says that buildings can be shown from inside or outside, that people can be non-European. I used to say could be male or female, then I added, we don't get many females and would like more. Even female artists mostly drew men. For Adventures I just specified male or female on all of the cards that were a person. There will be some women in this art.
Errata
- ↑ Ambassador art was mistakelny credited to Alexander Jung.
- ↑ Claus Stephan is sometimes credited as "Claus Stefan".
- ↑ Garret DeChellis was mistakenly credited as "Garrett" for Dark Ages.
- ↑ Prior to Empires, Jessi J was credited as "Jessica Cox".
- ↑ Joshua Balvin is credited as the illustrator of Peddler on the card, although it was Joshua Stewart.
- ↑ Since the Second Editions of Base and Intrigue and prior to Nocturne, Marcel-André Casasola Merkle's last name is mistakenly hyphenated.
- ↑ Prior to Alchemy, Simon Jannerland was credited as Simon Samuelsson.