Illustration By Jason Chan

Jason Chan was born in Stockton, California in 1983. Jason Chan studied illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since high school, he has been involved in numerous RPGs including White Wolf Publishing's popular Vampire the Requium, Mage: the Awakening, and World of Warcraft series. An avid gamer, Jason has had chances to work on numerous video games as a pitch, concept, and promo artist for companies such as BioWare, Sony, and WideLoad. Recently Jason has begun work with Wizards of the Coast on their popular Magic the Gathering series and Tor books doing book covers. Jason Chan now works full time at Massive Black in San Francisco.
He said: "I love to draw. Ever since I was a kid I've always been drawing characters for make believe video games, cartoons and comics. I also loved drawing my favorite X-men characters, warcraft heroes, and video game sprites. I drew a million Mega Man and Mario drawings. As I grew up, that love for video games and fantasy never left me. I grew to love fantasy novels and that inspired my work. Many of my favorite video games were japanese made so as I drew the characters from those games. I began to fall for the anime style. Of course, that lead me to watch anime - an addiction I still haven't been able to shake. After a couple of years of horrible attempts at manga style art, I began school in San Francisco and actually got some decent life drawing and anatomy practice. I began to to be exposed to some of the western masters such as Sargent, Leyendecker, Rockwell, and Frazetta. I embraced the esthetics of western art and tried to improve myself in that direction. Now I am trying to marry my western art education with my eastern art interest and see what happens."