About the Artist

Martin McKenna was born in London in 1969 and has been working as a freelance illustrator for several years, almost exclusively within the genres of fantasy, horror and sf.

Aged around fifteen, he became involved in the production of a couple of Role Playing Game fanzines, and also Dagon, a semi-professional magazine devoted to H P Lovecraft, for which he co-produced a comic strip with horror author Brian Lumley. This led to commissions for the Games Workshop magazine White Dwarf.

Over the next few years Martin worked on numerous GW products, resulting in copious scribblings of Orcs, Space Marines and Chaos type things including a few Fighting Fantasy titles.

Since then his work has been commissioned by Hasbro and Parker Games, and later Palladium Books and Wizards of the Coast for their Magic The Gathering series. In publishing, Penguin Books, Usborne Books, Oxford University Press, Carroll & Graf, and Harper Collins have used his work.

In 1995 he received the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist and in 1997 gave up the freelance life to work for two years as a development team artist with Eidos Interactive, working on Deathtrap Dungeon, Urban Chaos, and Warrior Kings.

Martin is now back working freelance on all kinds of artwork for books and magazines, and packaging and in-game graphics for computer games.

In addition to the above Martin has also had work commissioned by:

Telos Publishing Ltd., Puffin Books, Hasbro Parker Games, Merlin Trading Cards, Fedogan & Bremer, The British Fantasy Society, Carroll & Graf Robinson Books, Monkey Puzzle, Wizards of the Coast, Palladium Books, Domark Black, Cactus Games, InterActive Vision, Subterranean Press, Oxford Designers & Illustrators, Little Brown, Orbit, GW's The Black Library and 4Leaf Games Ltd.

His work has also appeared in the following magazines:

PC Strategy Games, Interzone, Games Master, Adventurer, Warlock, Fantasy Tales, Scream Factory, Skeleton Crew, Farpoint, Deathrealm, Beyond, Dark Horizons, Chills, Mystique and Kimota.

The Artwork

A small version of Martin's artwork for the Nightdreamers Deluxe Edition frontispiece is presented to the right.

Telos are also pleased to present, exclusively on this website, larger versions of the initial illustration roughs and the full finished colour illustration.

To view these either click on the image to the right, and follow the links below the larger image you see, or use the text links below:

• View the initial 'rough'
• View the second, amended, 'rough'
• View the initial colour illustration
• View the finished colour illustration

Martin McKenna can be contacted through his website at: www.martinmckenna.net