Gerald brom artist biography

Entry updated 16 September 2024. Tagged: Artist.

Working name of American artist Gerald Brom (1965-    ). Growing up in the family of a United States Army pilot, the young Brom lived in a number of locations and concluded his formal education by graduating from high school in Frankfurt, Germany.

Gerald brom artist biography

The self-trained Brom first worked in commercial art before joining TSR in 1989, contributing art to the Dungeons and Dragons game and painting book covers, with particular attention to developing imagery for the Dungeons and Dragons Dark Sun series.

Providing what the market demanded, Brom initially specialized in unremarkable full-body portraits of male and female warriors, but his art gradually took on the darker ambience, suggestive of Horror, that would later be his trademark.

His cover for James Lowder's Prince of Lies (1993) might be regarded as a transitional work, presenting an armoured warrior painted in full colour accompanied by a pale demon writhing in