Matthew Mitchell is an American artist whose work has appeared in
role-playing games.
Early life and education
Originally from Minnesota, Matthew Mitchell spent a year studying biology/premedical illustration at Iowa State University in Ames.
[ Mitchell then attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Mitchell collaborated with artist Perre DiCarlo and local community gardeners to build a stone amphitheater in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and then worked as a cabinetmaker and a welder.][
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Career
Mitchell is known for his work on the ''Magic: The Gathering
''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a Tabletop game, tabletop and Digital collectible card game, digital Collectible card game, collectable card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards ...
'' card game. His ''Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TS ...
'' work includes '' Book of Exalted Deeds'', ''Epic Level Handbook
The ''Epic Level Handbook'' is a rule-book by Wizards of the Coast for the 3rd edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The book was published in 2001, and contains optional game rules for playing characters who have reached a higher experience leve ...
'', and ''Draconomicon
The ''Draconomicon'' is the title for several optional sourcebooks for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, providing supplementary game mechanics for dragons specifically. Different ''Draconomicon'' books have been issued for the 2nd, 3 ...
''.
He has worked on a series of paintings of American soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq called "100 Faces of War Experience".Rebecca Guay
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work on role-playing games, collectible card games, comic books, as well as work on children's literature. Guay subsequently turned primarily toward gal ...
. They live in Amherst, Massachusetts.[Frankel, Karen (September 2007). "Applying Rembrandt's Portrait Technique", '' American Artist'' 71 (779): 34, 36, 38–40]
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21st-century American painters
American male painters
Living people
Painters from Minnesota
Place of birth missing (living people)
Pratt Institute alumni
Role-playing game artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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