Jeff Laubenstein is a fantasy artist.

Career

Jeff Laubenstein has worked for several major Fantasy Game companies, including FASA, White Wolf, and Wizards of the Coast. He has been working in the field since the mid 80s. He was the art director on the Earthdawn project. Most of the Earthdawn books contained at least several of his contributions. In the early Shadowrun game books, his work featured prominently, illustrating nearly all of the NPC portraits. Laubenstein was the art director at FASA for almost a decade. His art appears in numerous FASA releases, including '' MechWarrior: The Battletech Role Playing Game'' (1986), and '' Mercurial'' ('' Shadowrun'') (1989). He has done illustrations for '' Magic: The Gathering''. In 2001 he received a nomination for a

Chesley Award The Chesley Awards were established in 1985 by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists to recognize individual artistic works and achievements during a given year. The Chesleys were initially called the ASFA Awards, but were later re ...

, in the category Best Gaming-Related Illustration, for his work on ''Castles and Covenants'' (White Wolf Publishing). In 2014, Scott Taylor of '' Black Gate'', named Jeff Laubenstein as #8 in a list of The Top 10 RPG Artists of the Past 40 Years, saying "His work appeared in every product the company ever created after his hiring, and he was the driving force for the design of the groundbreaking cyberpunk ''Shadowrun'' RPG in which he was responsible for all the iconic archtypes as well as a multitude of NPCs archtypes."https://www.blackgate.com/2014/02/12/art-of-the-genre-the-top-10-rpg-artists-of-the-past-40-years-2/

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List of his published works
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