Professional illustrator since September 1986
New Jersey born Brian Snoddy came to the Northwest at the age of 5. In 1983, he decided to pursue a career in art and enrolled in the Art Institute of Seattle. While he learned many skills there, most of Brian’s current illustration techniques are self-developed. He graduated in 1985 and began work as a production artist, and eventually a product illustrator at Egghead Software’s in-house ad agency. During his seven years there, he worked on newspaper ads, coupon books, direct mail order magazines, and eventually illustrated the products in those ads.
From 1992-1995 Brian worked as an art assistant at The Creative Fire art studio and on several different comics including Shaman’s Tears, Classic Star Wars, and Maggie the Cat. He also worked as a storyboard artist and assistant on Saturday morning cartoon shows such as Conan the Barbarian, Disney’s Gargoyles, Garfield and Friends, X-Men, Jim Lee’s Wildcats, and Exo-Squad.
In 1992 he met art director Jesper Myrfors at Norwescon, the local Seattle Sci-Fi convention and was recruited to work on Magic: The Gathering’s inaugural Alpha set. Brian was the co-creator and co-founder of Privateer Press, where he co-created the Iron Kingdoms universe and the War Machine fantasy tabletop battle game. He left Privateer Press in 2005 to pursue his own work. In 2009 he joined Air-Tight Games as a concept artist. Snoddy later worked as a full time concept artist and illustrator for Flying Frog Productions.
Brian is a traditional artist, working in Gouache paint, marker, and pen and ink. He is currently a self-employed concept artist and illustrator. He is currently taking commissions for card signatures, card alters, paintings and artist proof sketches.
Brian Snoddy has given this gouache painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Bitey that will ever be made.
As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.
You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.
This was an image created for a card game about CRYPTIDS that was never finished or released. It is a painting of the mysterious creature called “The Chupacabra”, which means goat sucker. This creature has been reported to have been seen all over Latin America and Puerto Rico. The first public mention of this creature in the USA was on the TV series Bonanza, which ran from 1959 to 1973.
Brian Snoddy has given this gouache painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Midnight Flight that will ever be made.
As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.
You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.
This was painted for a card game that was all about capturing CRYPTIDS (creatures that may or may not exist). This card game was never finished or released. This is a painting of the legendary character Spring Heeled Jack, a creature that plagued Victorian era England for decades starting in 1837.
Brian Snoddy has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of DANGER!!! that will ever be made.
As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.
You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.
This painting was done as part of a set that was going to be a card game about cryptids. It is my take on the famous monster seen in Flatwoods, West Virginia in the fall of 1952.
Brian Snoddy has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Ex Memoriam that will ever be made.
As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.
You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.
This was painted for the 20th anniversary of MAGIC THE GATHERING. In 2014, a bunch of us old school MAGIC artists got together and we all redid an old card. This was my redo of the card Recall. This painting was printed in the 20th anniversary book called THE GATHERING.