Doug Andersen is a graduate of San Jose State University with a major in fine arts painting. He spent a few years in the gallery market, but finding the galleries too commercial, decided to move into the illustration market.

Doug worked for five years in Lockheed's Space Systems Division as an illustrator doing technical illustration and conceptual paintings of spacecraft and hardware. Some of the programs Andersen worked on were Space Shuttle, Space Telescope, Space Station, and early Mars landing projects. He spent another five years as an art director for Lockheed's New Business Acquisition, doing conceptual renderings for new products, and designing presentation artwork for SSD's Acquisition Management.

Since leaving the space industry, Doug Andersen has spent the last 16 years freelancing in the Science Fiction game and book cover market along with other various markets.

He's also been teaching full-time for the last 16 years at the Hartford Art School. The classes he teaches are: Drawing for Illustration, Figure Illustration, Figure Painting, Computer Illustration, Watercolor Techniques, Acrylic Techniques, Oil Techniques, Editorial Illustration, Advertising Illustration, Archaeological Illustration and Portfolio Preparation.

Clients include: Aviation Week, Baen Books, Beagle Bay Books, Checkerbee Publishing, Double-day Books, DreamWeaver Studios, FanPro Games, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Fantasy Realms Magazine, Fasa Corporation, GDW Games, Palmtree Publishing, Penguin Books, Popular Science, R. Talsorian Games, Science Fiction Age Magazine, Scholastic Books, Scientific American, Time/Warner Games Division, Warner Books and Weaver Enterprises.