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 (15)
doarte
Incredible +5 from doarte's MADHOUSE
alessimarco
A very well composed scene! Lots of interesting characters.
bebopdlx
Excellent work indeed!
JOELGLAINE
A truly alien world filled with mystery and adventure! Great piece of art!
geirla
Very nice! I like that graininess and the sense of depth beyond the arch. Only weird thing is that a first glance, it looks like's she's carrying the container... and then I get it.
Geophree
Great idea and well executed.
Biffowitz
Cool render and scene, unusual and very alien looking. I like it!
Cimaira
Awesome scene and wonderful composition of great characters.
thecytron
Awesome rendering work! Great scene!
722
awesome work
zhaanman
Cool perspective amazing image and style to their looks as well!!
Hubert
A wonderful SciFi scene!! Great character work and composition.
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent sci fi!
dbrv6
Space Oprera! Sci-Fi! Kudos and have some Cookies too. Like the feel of this from the quality/lighting to the poses and action. Great suggestion of interest and a story.
arcas
Great sense of otherworldly adventure. It seems like you're the only one that's really put "chicken man" to good use. Of course your displacement maps REALLY help make him cool. I still think he'd make a neat reimagined Droyne if you scale him and slap on wings.