John Stanko is an artist and art director who has provided artwork for Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy Flight Games, Blizzard, and Sony. In 2005, he obtained a master's of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Stanko has been an assistant professor of visual communications at University of Nebraska at Kearney.
He provided interior illustrations for the Wizards of the Coast publication Player's Handbook 2, 4th edition.
http://stankoillustration.com/