The Art of Gudnak

Bonedust

Vittoria Pompalani

Bonedust is the lead artist for Gudnak and the only actually talented person at Chaotic Great. She’s responsible for the tarot-style character cards, the faction iconography, and making everything look like it belongs in a world that’s falling apart beautifully. Her work blends classical illustration with something darker and weirder, and we are extremely lucky she agreed to work with us.

Omri Kadim

Omri Kadim owns the Gloaming faction. His undead are grotesque, regal, and weirdly sympathetic — you almost feel bad for the skeleton armies before they rip your board apart. With 8 cards in the set, he’s built an entire necromantic aesthetic that makes death look disturbingly elegant.

Lashy Ip

Lashy brings a sharp, kinetic energy to the world of Gudnak. Her character work has an edge to it — angular, expressive, and full of personality. From the sneaky Lowcountry Assassin to the swarming Wyverns, every piece feels like it’s about to leap off the card and cause problems.

Faith Schaffer

Faith’s work radiates light — literally. Her Refractory faction pieces glow with divine energy, from the radiant High Priestess to the charging Solaran Cavalry. She makes holy warriors look like they actually deserve the title.

Julio Bencid

Julio’s creatures feel ancient and massive. His Vekk’urrash is the kind of thing that makes you instinctively lean back from the table. He paints monsters that feel like they have weight, history, and very bad intentions.

Sam Land

Sam Land’s work is luminous. There’s a warmth and depth to his illustrations that makes Gudnak’s world feel like a place you could actually visit — if you didn’t mind the likelihood of being eaten. His Sunseer is one of the most beloved cards in the game.

stonedrunkwizard

stonedrunkwizard’s style is gritty and grounded — armored soldiers that look like they’ve actually seen a fight, siege equipment with dents and scorch marks. His Refractory and Delguon faction pieces bring a lived-in military realism to Gudnak’s fantasy world.

Mark Poole

Yes, that Mark Poole. The legend behind Magic: The Gathering’s Ancestral Recall, Birds of Paradise, and the original Islands. His Death Knight, Everking, and Nihl’othrakaris bring that same painterly gravitas to Gudnak — the kind of art that makes a card feel like it belongs in a gallery.

Markus Poole

Like father, like son. Markus Poole carries on the family tradition with a style that’s distinctly his own — darker, more textured, and absolutely menacing. His Forgefather and The Protean show his range — a hammer-wielding Delguon dwarf and a mushroom-cursed Rotborn rotgolem, both bursting with menace.

Luis Uzcategui

Luis paints at a scale that feels epic. His Everking and Shard Dragon are two of the most visually imposing cards in the entire game — massive, detailed, and dripping with the kind of grandeur that makes you want to build a deck around them just to see them on the table.

doodleskelly

doodleskelly’s style is unmistakable — detailed, organic, and wonderfully grotesque. Her Rotborn faction pieces capture exactly the kind of beautiful-disgusting energy that makes Gudnak’s creature design so memorable. The kind of art you zoom in on and keep finding new details.

Fendie Daywalker

Fendie’s creatures feel feral and ancient. Her Spore Colony is beautifully alien, and the Ogre Shaman radiates a primal, shamanistic energy that makes you feel like you’re intruding on something sacred and dangerous.

Anthony Hales

Anthony’s work balances reverence and menace. His Acolyte of Solara glows with quiet devotion while his Mercenaries look like the last people you’d want to meet in a dark alley — or a well-lit one, for that matter.

Erik Ly

Erik’s Rotborn faction pieces are dripping with atmosphere — literally. His Rotgolem Pugilist looks like it crawled out of the swamp specifically to ruin your day, and the Fungoid Mycomancer is the kind of beautiful fungal horror that keeps you staring.

Sanekpechenka

Alex Pecheniev

One card, one knockout. Sanekpechenka’s Ebonsmith is a masterclass in atmosphere — dark, intricate, and absolutely dripping with the kind of forge-glow energy that makes the Delguon faction feel alive.

Lester Fajardo

Lester’s Spirit of Alliance is one of the most striking pieces in the entire game — a luminous, ethereal figure that captures the feeling of factions coming together against impossible odds. The kind of card art that makes people ask "who painted that?"