Blake Packard is a freelance illustrator and full-time product development manager. His recent work is a series of video game art in oils on canvas. These paintings have the intention to elevate fan art to a more mature and sophisticated level. Blake has showcased his Video Game painting Series at the Chicago ComicCon and WizardWorld. In 2014 he illustrated the cover for a fantasy adventure novel Northern Arcadia: Thief in Long Shadow and featured a pin-up painting in the #3 issue of Dark Engine from Image comics.