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Jori Bolton | Illustrator
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Editorial/corporate/book illustrator by day, gaming/fantasy/sci-fi/cyberpunk illustrator by night.
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I have a piece in this—my first dragon! #illustration #art #shadowrun #ttrpg
Illustration of a dragon hovering vertically in a domed interior while beams of green-white light shoot up from cracks in the floor. Three men in long black coats are on the ground and one in the foreground is also being struck by the light and his arm is mutating to grow larger and sprout horn-like growths. The dragon is growing a third wing where it has been struck by the light. Illustration by Jori Bolton for the Shadowrun RPG from Catalyst Game Labs.
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Trying to remake that great cup of coffee
Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with a hand on a conspiracy board covered in pinned documents connected by red marker lines and gesturing towards another character. Charlie's eyes are wide and red. He looks crazy.
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Thanks for the tag @aromiekim.bsky.social !

WIPs, warm-ups, and studies:
A rough, digital paint sketch of Leonardo from a scene in the 1980's TMNT cartoon, showing a close crop of his face, yelling, as his arm is raised beyond the edge of the canvas. Sketch by Jori Bolton. Unfinished digital paint study of a young girl standing beside a dog that is lying down. In the background is a tall fence and a blue sky. Painting by Jori Bolton. Unfinished paint study of a toddler in a blue rain jacket walking in front of a stand of pumpkins, with trees, blue sky, and a distant house in the background. Paint study by Jori Bolton. Scan of a sketchbook page showing various concept sketches of a person an an elevator in blue and graphite pencil. Sketches by Jori Bolton.
October 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Congrats on 3K, Happy Birthday, thanks for the artshare, and congratulations on all the great Warhammer art!
Illustration by Jori Bolton of a dwarf wielding a glowing, fiery warhammer and running toward a man-sized specimen tank containing a submerged elf. In the background, stairs and walkways go in every direction, and humanoid figures walks around and examine other specimen tanks. Done for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG. Illustration of a rust-red-coloured warthog with two pairs of tusks, patchy red fur, and black lesions on its hide, that is walking over swampy, muddy ground dotted with wilting saplings. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG. Illustration of an ork window-washer suspended on a harness outside a high-storey corporate office. He is using a squeegee on the window, from which lasers are being emitted to scan a document sitting on the corporate desk. Holographic interfaces float above the desk, and a brightly lit cityscape is in the background, dotted with giant glowing logos over the buildings. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG. Illustration showing a view looking down a concrete, basement staircase which opens up into an underground bar/restaurant. A shadow of a large troll is cast down the stairs and a man in the restaurant at the bottom is looking up towards the caster of the shadow with fear in his eyes and leaping up from his table. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG.
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The secondary illo for the HBR Performance Improvement Plans Case Study. I've never worked in a corporate environment, but those PIPs sound ✨uncomfortable✨.

#illustration
An illustration of a giant woman holding a giant magnifying glass and looking at a man working at a computer in a cubicle, who is shrinking away. Drawn by Jori Bolton for Harvard Business Review.
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Happy #PortfolioDay again! I'm also Jori, the fantasy/scifi/cyberpunk illustrator. Hoping to include more of the "fantasy" genre in this portfolio, but who has the time! Right now I do lots of work for Catalyst Game labs and the Shadowrun IP.

#illustration
Final cover art by Jori Bolton for the Shadowrun novella, The Mosaic Run, by Jennifer Brozek. The artwork shows two young women running down a narrow corridor in a server room while a security drone pursues and fires upon them. One woman aims a firearm at the drone. Illustration by Jori Bolton of a dwarf woman wearing a flowing red cap and firing a crossbow at a leaping vampire-like creature in a desert cave for the Shadowrun TTRPG book, Astral Ways. Illustration of a dwarf man and an ork woman in a dark, underground, abandoned subway station being used as a laboratory. The dwarf man grimaces and holds a hand up to glowing scratch marks on his face, while the ork woman in the background shines a flashlight at an apparently immobile rat monster held up by metal posts and connected to glowing orange tubes. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG. Cover art for Shadowrun: Margin Calls, a TTRPG gaming supplement from Catalyst Game Labs, with an illustration by Jori Bolton showing a young girl walking with a glowing purple/blue coyote and looking towards the background of the image where a massive, diamond-shaped sign has fallen from the top of a high-rise onto a parked delivery van, crushing the van's roof and part of the windshield. Police stand around while a forensic team examines the vehicle.
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Jori, a Canadian illustrator, and I do conceptual editorial, fashion, lifestyle and corporate work.

#illustration
Editorial illustration by Jori Bolton of a man in a white shirt at a cubicle desk opening a briefcase to find a smaller briefcase inside. A pair of headphones is partially inside the smaller briefcase. Done for Harvard Business Review. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Renaissance Magazine showing three 50-70 year old people in a Pilates class with their hands behind their heads, stretching back. One female student is in a wheelchair, another female student is being helped by a female instructor who has her hands on the student's arms, and one male student is watching the instructor help the the other student. Illustration of a man standing atop a giant step-ladder in a maze by Jori Bolton for Harvard Business Review. Illustration by Jori Bolton showing three square video call feeds of people doing exercises. In the top left is a low angle shot of a woman with white hair in a living room, but most of the shot is taken up by a cat's face looking at the screen. Second from the left show's a man in a t-shirt, reaching one arm over to the side. Third from the left shows a woman in long sleeved active-wear reaching over to the side in a lunge, in front of a potted plant, a yoga ball, and a fitness riser, and then far right shows a woman in a wheel-chair also reaching over to the side. Illustrated for Renaissance Magazine from Entente Education Canada with design by Hambly & Woolley.
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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New for Harvard Business Review "Case Study: Should a CHRO Abandon Performance Improvement Plans?"

It's about these PIPs, which if I'm understanding, are documents put together for struggling employees with goals/criteria/feedback which can be used to help or to provide paper trail for termination.
Illustration from a high angle point-of-view showing a man in a white button-up shirt and blue pants leaping through the second of five star-shaped hoops lined up between cubicles in an office-like environment. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Harvard Business Review.
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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New for WSJ! #illustration #art

Article here: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Two trees with birdhouses with a red bird flying in between. The birdhouse on the left tree is small with a peaked roof, and the bird house on the right is a seven storeys tall and structured like an office building. The small red bird flutters to toward the small, peak-roofed bird house on the left. Illustration by Jori Bolton for The Wall Street Journal.
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This one's from last year, but I felt like a repost.

"How To Make Being Alone Work For You" for the Mr Porter Journal.

#illustration #art #editorialillustration
Illustration of a man in shorts and a t-shirt, wearing a large hiking backpack, and standing atop a graphic representation of a snowcapped mountaintop. Artwork by Jori Bolton for the Mr Porter Journal.
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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More hands for EQ Bank!

Original -> then two versions as used in different contexts on the site (or in the app, I don't know for sure).

#illustration #branding #art
Line drawing of two hands holding a smart phone. The screen is yellow with a white swish across the middle. Illustration by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. Line drawing of two hands holding a smart phone. There is a purple checkmark on the screen and the EQ Bank yellow diamond-shape. Hand illustration by Jori Bolton and phone interface design by EQ Bank. Line drawing of two hands holding a smart phone. There is an EQ Bank yellow diamond-shape on the screen. Hands drawn by Jori Bolton and phone interface design and colour by EQ Bank.
September 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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More brand illos for EQ Bank. Hands!

Original -> In-context (with design done in-house by EQ Bank)
Line art illustration of a hand holding a phone near a pay terminal by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. Line art illustration of a hand holding a phone near a pay terminal by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank.
September 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Thanks for the tag @aromiekim.bsky.social and thanks for hosting, @nodens.bsky.social !

Hey everybody! Here's my stuff! Let's do some older gouache studies this time, because I miss those. The two medieval people are from photos (not mine), Whirlwind and the Scottie are original works.

#art #paint
Gouache painting of the Marvel supervillain, Whirlwind, showing him emerging from a simplified graphic representation of a green tornado, while wearing a green metal helmet, chest harness, and bracers. Painting by Jori Bolton. Gouache study by Jori Bolton of a medieval re-enactor who has a beard and is wearing a conical helmet. A sunny blue sky is reflected in his helmet. A gouache study by Jori Bolton of a medieval re-enactor who is wearing a dark blue tunic, orange tights, and orange hood, and has a sword sheathed in a scabbard hanging from a belt. The background shows the edges of two medieval-like buildings on grass. A gouache painting by Jori Bolton of a Scottish Terrier wearing dog-shaped plate-armour, who is standing on a grassy field.
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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More EQ Bank art! Some friends helping each other up a bar graph. First is original, second is in context. #illustration #branding
Line art illustration of two men helping each other up a bar graph. The higher man is dressed in a t-shirt, pants, and sneakers, and is reaching down to grasp the hand of the lower man, who is dressed in a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and hiking boots and is wearing a backpack. Drawing by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank.
September 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Taking a trip to the past building some MtG decks with friends from a random selection only Revised cards. My first cards were from Seventh Edition, so a long way after this, but I'm loving these exploring early cards. #magic #mtg
Photo showing two stacks of Magic: the Gathering Revised Edition cards on a desktop with Water Elemental and Lightning Bolt visible on top.
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Personal work

#art #illustration
An illustration showing a close up of a woman's face as she removes cracked, round-lensed glasses, revealing dark shadows where eyes would be. Small pinpricks of light sit at the centre of those shadows. Artwork by Jori Bolton.
August 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Thanks for the art share! I'm Jori, I'm a Canadian illustrator, and I do a lot of editorial/corporate work, cyberpunk stuff for the Shadowrun TTRPG, and one day I'd love to do more medieval fantasy.

#illustration #art
Illustration of dwarf woman who is dressed in black leathers, wearing a red cloak that is billowing outward, and firing a crossbow at a leaping vampire-like male humanoid who has his claws outstretched to either side and is casting a stark shadow on the desert cave wall in the background. Artwork by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG. Illustration showing a man in a purple suit sitting in a wall-mounted office chair on a wall that extends beyond the edge of the image, with other workers beside and below in their own wall-mounted chairs, with each wearing a headset and operating holographic interfaces. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs as a cover for Augment Magazine. Illustration showing a girl with a purple/blue coyote looking to where a massive, diamond-shaped sign has fallen from the top of a high-rise onto a parked delivery van, crushing the van's roof and the windshield. Cyberpunk police stand around while a forensic team examines the vehicle. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs. Gouache painting of a Scottish terrier in medieval plate armour standing on a field of grass. Painting by Jori Bolton.
August 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Little website update! Freshening up that news roll with some not-quite-so-old-art.

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Screenshot of joribolton.com, showing illustration by Jori Bolton, with thumbnails of illustrations on the left and featured recent illustrations on the right along with descriptions of the artwork. Top right shows four spot illustrations of people with giant props involved the manufacture of denim, which were drawn for Luca Faloni, and beneath that is an illustration of Bob Iger straining under the weight of a massive Mickey Mouse head, which was drawn for The Hollywood Reporter.
August 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Friends helping each other up the graph for EQ Bank.

This was one of the last ones we did before we settled into the white/yellow/off-white scheme seen in the edited version.

First is the original, then the edit, then the piece in-context.

#illustration #branding
A woman with black, curly hair, who is wearing a t-shirt, exercise pants, and a backpack stands on a jagged, ascending line graph, and reaches down to help up a woman with shoulder-length blond hair in a hairband, who is wearing a striped t-shirt and shorts. Geometric clouds are in the background. Illustration by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. A woman with black, curly hair, who is wearing a t-shirt, exercise pants, and a backpack stands on a jagged, ascending line graph, and reaches down to help up a man with short hair, a yellow hoodie, and black shorts. Geometric clouds are in the background. Illustration of figures by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. Illustration of clouds by EQ Bank. A woman with black, curly hair, who is wearing a t-shirt, exercise pants, and a backpack stands on a jagged, ascending line graph, and reaches down to help up a man with short hair, a yellow hoodie, and black shorts. Clouds sit behind them on a backdrop of the yellow EQ diamond-shape. Illustration of figures by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. Illustration of clouds and general design by EQ Bank.
August 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Ladder climbing folks for EQ Bank.

It was fun drawing different outfits for the figures in this series. My comfort zone for drawing clothes is a tucked-in button-up, black slacks, and Oxfords, so anything else is an adventure.

First is original, second is in context.

#illustration #branding
Line art illustration of a bar graph with a woman in a short-sleeve t-shirt and baggy striped pants standing on top of the tallest, right-most bar and holding a rope ladder which extends to the bottom of the graph, where a man in a t-shirt and shorts is starting to climb up. Drawing by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. Line art illustration of a bar graph with a woman in a short-sleeve t-shirt and baggy striped pants standing on top of the tallest, right-most bar and holding a rope ladder which extends to the bottom of the graph, where a man in a t-shirt and shorts is starting to climb up. The beginning of two words starting with "Co" can be seen on the right-hand background. Figures drawn by Jori Bolton. Design by EQ Bank.
August 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Fella on a phone for EQ Bank. Tap tap.

First is original. Second is in-context.

#illustration #branding
Line-art illustration of a man with a fade haircut, who is wearing a sweater, pants, and loafers, and is sitting on a cube while leaning forward and using his phone. Illustration by Jori Bolton for EQ Bank. Line-art illustration of a man with a fade haircut, who is wearing a sweater, pants, and loafers, and is sitting on a the EQ Bank yellow diamond logo-shape while leaning forward and using his phone. In the background is a graphic representation of a phone screen with the text "Elliot's EQ Card" and "$5,714" written underneath. At the top of the image is the numeral "4" in a yellow circle. Figure illustration by Jori Bolton. Design by EQ Bank.
August 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I think this is the most enduring piece I ever made. Made back in 2nd or 3rd year of college, and it circulated around a bit and got memed a few times.

Originally for an assignment where we were tasked to eavesdrop on strangers' conversations, then illustrate a snippet of dialogue out of context.
Image showing a courtroom bench, while a man in a black suit presents a bible to a red-skinned, horned, devil-looking man who recoils back. A judge looks on in displeasure from the background. Drawn by Jori Bolton for a college assignment sometime around 2010.
August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The two contributor portraits for the article (of Philip Daus and Dave Burwick):

#portrait #illustration #art
Portrait of Philip Daus, showing head and shoulders of a man with short hair who is wearing a collared shirt and jacket, drawn in black line art with blue colouring. Drawn by Jori Bolton for Harvard Business Review. Portrait of Dave Burwick, showing head and shoulders of a smiling man who is wearing a collared shirt, drawn in black line art with blue colouring. Drawn by Jori Bolton for Harvard Business Review.
August 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I seriously considered getting vintage, but no, I got this one. It's great, and my daughters do actually play with it.
August 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM