About Wayne Reynolds
Wayne Reynolds was a British artist.
Wayne Reynolds is a British artist whose work has appeared in comics and role-playing games.
Early life and education Wayne Reynolds was born in Leeds, UK. He attended art college in Dewsbury and Middlesbrough.
Games Wayne Reynolds has continued to produce interior illustrations for many Dungeons & Dragons books and Dragon magazine since 1999, as well as cover art for Deep Dwarven Delve (1999), Reverse Dungeon (2000), Complete Warrior (2003), and several books for the Eberron campaign setting. He has also produced artwork for many other games including Pendragon (Chaosium), Rolemaster (Iron Crown Enterprises), and the GameMastery line (Paizo Publishing), and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game and the video game Hearthstone.
Reynolds has also produced numerous covers for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
In 2014, Scott Taylor of Black Gate, named Wayne Reynolds as #2 in a list of The Top 10 RPG Artists of the Past 40 Years, saying "Since he started getting covers, his artwork has gone on to champion two of the largest gaming lines and companies the genre has ever known."
Comics Reynolds has also done work on British comics, in particular at 2000 AD on stories like Sláine, and Judge Dredd. He also worked with 2000 AD creators on Warhammer Monthly on the stories The Redeemer and Kal Jerico.
Historical art From 2000 to 2004, Reynolds did artwork for Osprey Publishing's series of historical reference books.
Achievements In 2026, Reynolds was inducted into The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design for his continued work in the RPG space.
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British artist
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Wayne Reynolds was an artist.
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