JON SIDERIADIS

✦ AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATOR, professor ✦

Jon is an award-winning illustrator, author, and professor. His specialties are fantasy art, writing, and world building. Jon was the Illustration Program Coordinator and a Full-time professor at the University of New Haven where he taught Illustration Core Classes, Concept Art, World Building, Creative Writing, and Digital Painting. He has taught world building and art history in Rhodes, Greece. He has also lectured and taught workshops throughout the east coast and midwest. He now teaches Painting I and II at Tunxis college while working as a studio illustrator and author. His work has been published in film, television, video games, novels, comics, album art, board games, and on trading cards. Jon has worked in Hollywood as a creature-effects artist and sculptor on feature films including Godzilla and Underworld Evolution. His work is displayed in solo and group shows throughout the country and he is internationally acclaimed in the illustration field. Jon is regularly invited as a Guest of Honor to illustration conventions and exhibits work with the finest fantasy and science fiction illustrators in the business.

Jon has been hired by companies like Hasbro, Dwarven Forge, Napa Auto Parts, Goodman Games, and Hit Point Press as a freelance and in-house illustrator.

Jon is writing and illustrating an original mythology series called Astromythos, and is currently completing the second book in the series. He has also written and illustrated a fifth-edition D&D adventure book published by Hit Point Press called Lair of the Spider Lord, which is available here on his website. Jon received his bachelor’s degree in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, and his master’s at Hartford Art School’s Illustration MFA Program.