Jason Chan

Jason Chan illustrated all of the covers for the Keeper of the Lost Cities series and many others books as well.

Bio

My name is Jason Chan and I like to draw :)

I was born and raised in Stockton, California in 1983. After high school, I moved out to San Francisco to study 3D animation at the Academy of Art University, but promptly changed my major to illustration and graduated in the Spring of 06. I am now working at Massive Black. 

As I said, I love to draw. Ever since I was a kid I've always been drawing characters for make-believe video games, cartoons, and comics. I also loved drawing my favorite X-men characters, warcraft heroes, and video game sprites. I drew a million Mega Man and Mario drawings. As I grew up, that love for video games and fantasy never left me. I grew to love fantasy novels and that inspired my work. Many of my favorite video games were Japanese made so as I drew the characters from those games, I began to fall for the anime style. Of course, that lead me to watch anime - an addiction I still haven't been able to shake. After a couple of years of horrible attempts at manga style art, I began school in San Francisco and actually got some decent life drawing and anatomy practice. I began to be exposed to some of the western masters such as Sargent, Leyendecker, Rockwell, and Frazetta. I embraced the aesthetics of western art and tried to improve myself in that direction. Now I am trying to marry my western art education with my eastern art interest and see what happens.

I'm still trying. We'll see what happens.

Keeper of the Lost Cities Artwork

Keeper of the Lost Cities Cover

Exile Cover

Everblaze Cover

Neverseen Cover

Lodestar Cover

Nightfall Cover

Flashback Cover

Legacy Cover

Trivia

• Shannon Messenger was excited when she found out that Jason Chan would be illustrating the series's covers.