Tom Peters is an illustrator, graphic designer, and writer. His early career included serving as Technical Illustrator at Interstel, subcontracting to NASA, supporting several projects related to the Space Shuttle.
Tom served as the Technical Editor for Digest Group Publications, as well as providing many illustrations within the DGP product line, producing material for the TRAVELLER RPG.
Tom has provided art work for almost every version of Traveller, including MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era, Marc Miller’s Traveller, and GURPS Traveller.
In addition to his illustrations for Traveller, Tom has provided art work for West End Games’ TORG, Game Designers’ Workshop’s Traveller:2300 (later changed to 2300 A.D.), Space:1889, and Challenge magazine , FASA’s Renegade Legion, and Battletech games, among others.
Tom’s involvement in the Game Industry continued through the ’90s, moving from the paper and pen field to computer gaming. He joined Virtual World Entertainment, Inc. In 1992 as an artist, working on concept art, interface design, and visual game development. He then migrated to graphic and marketing design and finished with the company as the Marketing Art Director. His completed computer game projects include TESLA BattleTech and Red Planet, Microprose’s MechCommander, Hasbro Interactive’s Axis and Allies: Iron Cross, and Microsoft’s MechAssault.
As a freelance Illustrator, he has provided cover paintings for acclaimed authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe Companion 1 and 2, as well as two of their Chap Books. He has worked with Science Fiction author Allen Steele on the visual and functional design of the spacecraft in Steele’s novel Spindrift.
Tom currently lives in Illinois, just west of Chicago, with his wife, Diane, and 4 semi-autonomous Greeligs. He works as an Adjunct Professor at DuPage Community College, teaching Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and other digital graphic tools, and continues his career as a graphic artist and illustrator.
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Comments (19)
sim3344
Excellent work!!!
bakapo
excellent! the lighting and the posing is great. there's a real sense of depth with that background.
JCD
Excellent image - the concept is great and execution is spot on!
JOELGLAINE
Very cool PMU you did! Better than the usual stuff I've seen! The image of a 'jetpack' with thrusters the size of hot-water heaters in the freebies leaps tyo mind! LOLOLOLOL YOUR's look like something that people could actually MAKE! Damned fine design and execution! Kick-ass piece!
onimusha
Great props... well constructed scene... nicely done...
arcas
HA! It's finally done! You were working on this prop when I visited you a year ago. Looks like you've done some mods. I like this version of the back pack very much. Your foreground vehicles are pretty neat, too - I like that red one, in particular. I think not blurring the background as much might have given a better sense of vertigo, and I'm not sure I'm sold on the cigar. But posing is nice and the concept is great!
TheBear005
Great picture! Love the overall look. Well done! 5+
jaynep12002
Wow - you really captured it! The sense of depth created by the background is giving me vertigo! Think I'll keep my feet on firm ground! Great render!
Denys234
Very well executed!!
Geophree
Mightily impressive!!
Cimaira
fantastic scene and pov
gchuck
Okay! That is quite awsome! Keeper!
deci6el
Ooh, I really like this one. The sense of depth and danger. Here's a test you don't want to fail.
Denger
I think the facial expressions and poses you've chosen convey the confidence of the instructor and the caution and/or hesitancy of the student remarkably well. Your use of different blur styles gives the scene incredible depth and realism, too. I only see a slight problem: the instructor's right glove seems unfinished. I'd lose the cigar, too, as it seems out of place in the overall scene. Excellent models and scene!
Cairobat
Outstanding!!
zhaanman
Oh yea very nice detail love the image!!
evinrude
Nicely done!
gaff
Splendid work!
Moebius87
Great stuff! :o)