Tyler Jacobson

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Tyler Jacobson
Jacobson at Chicago MagicCon in 2025
Born
Oakland, California
Known forFantasy art, illustration
SpouseKate Welch[1]
Websitehttp://tylerjacobsonart.com/
http://tylerjacobson.blogspot.com/

Tyler Jacobson is an American science fiction and fantasy artist and illustrator.

Career

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His work has been featured in publications by Wizards of the Coast,[2] Simon & Schuster,[3] TOR,[4] Entertainment Weekly,[5] Rolling Stone,[6] Texas Monthly,[7] Men’s Journal,[8] Runner's World,[9] The Weekly Standard,[10] and Scientific American.[11] He is also known as a mainstream artist for contributions to several popular publications, including the oil painting Last Days of The Comanches featured in Texas Monthly.[11]

Jacobson is best known as a fantasy artist, due to his significant contributions of art to Magic: The Gathering trading card game cards, package art, and promotional materials, as well as character design and game art for Dungeons & Dragons. By April 2020, he had "illustrated nearly 100 cards" for Magic: The Gathering.[12] Jacobson occsionally auctions off his Magic: The Gathering original work;[13] his painting of Drizzt Do'Urden for the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set "sold for a record-breaking $155,000" and "falls in the Top 5 highest public prices realized for an original work of Magic art".[14]

He was the cover artist for two of the core rulebooks – Player's Handbook (2014) and Dungeon Master's Guide (2014) – for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.[15] Jacobson designed the standard edition cover for the 5th Edition adventure module The Wild Beyond the Witchlight (2021).[16][17] SyFy Wire highlighted that "the cover for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight promises an ominous carnival atmosphere with a creepy clown and a looming, imposing-looking enforcer-type character".[17] He also designed the covers for that edition's revised Player's Handbook (2024), Dungeon Master's Guide (2024), and Monster Manual (2024).[18][19][20] In comparing the cover of the 2024 Player's Handbook to the 2014 Player's Handbook, Matt Bassil of Wargamer commented that "the old cover is an obvious power fantasy: look how powerful you can become and the cool things you can fight" while the new cover has a different focus: "look at the variety of DnD races and classes you can play, and the cool people you'll be hanging out with".[21] Benjamin Abbott of GamesRadar+ called the Monster Manual (2024) "hands down my favorite cover out of the new core rulebooks".[19]

Jacobson is the art director for Matthew Lillard's "Quest's End" whiskey line where he does bottle art and design including the map on the back of each bottle; he also illustrates the corresponding chapter of the original fantasy story, Dawn of the Unbound Gods by Kate Welch, which comes with the bottle.[22][23][24][25]

Education

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Jacobson graduated from Gonzaga University in 2005 with a BA in Fine Art, and from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2009 with a MFA in Illustration and was awarded Best of Show MFA Traditional Illustration AAU Spring Show 2009, and First Place MFA Traditional Illustration AAU Spring Show 2009.[26]

Awards

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Notes

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  2. ^ [1]. Tyler Jacobson And D&D Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  3. ^ [2]. Hell Island Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  4. ^ [3]. Wheel of Time Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  5. ^ [4]. Entertainment Weekly Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  6. ^ [5]. Rolling Stone Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  7. ^ [6]. Texas Monthly Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  8. ^ [7]. Men’s Journal Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  9. ^ [8]. Runner's World Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  10. ^ [9]. Weekly Standard Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  11. ^ a b [10]. Scientific American Retrieved December 24, 2013.
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  26. ^ [11]. About on Richard Solomon Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  27. ^ [12]. Jack Gaughan Awards Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  28. ^ [13]. Spectrum 19 Awards Retrieved December 24, 2013.
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